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Lottery FraudReply
A winning lottery ticket is a bearer instrument, its value payable to the bearer on demand. Once it is signed it is payable to the signer. While anyone can claim to be the original owner of a lottery ticket and file suit to recover its value, proof of such claims can be hard to come by. The lottery ticket is your receipt. Do any lotteries validate play slips? A fresh play slip can be marked with yesterday's winning numbers in seconds. Played the same numbers every week for years? Doesn't
Jan 7, 2004, 11:53 pm - BobP - Lottery Discussion Forum

Lottery sales spiking as Mega Millions jackpot reaches $155MNews Story
$155 million Mega Millions drawing is tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern TimeToday might not be the best day to stop at a convenience store for a quick cup of coffee.The Mega Millions jackpot was still growing Monday night, hitting $155 million. The multistate lottery is in New York and 10 other states.The huge jackpot has attracted regular customers plus those enticed to spend an extra dollar this week. I don't play regularly, said Sean Sweeney, 18, of Oakdale Drive in Elmira, a clerk at the Conveni
Dec 30, 2003, 5:34 am - Todd - Lottery News

Scratch off Odds?Reply
Generally Scratch Odds are posted, and yes, they are better than even the best on-line games overall, usually in general. Worst is 1 in 5, but best is 1 in 1; like apparently in Ohio, our $20 Christmas ticket guarantees at least $5 on every ticket. What isn't always known is the Payout, I sat down and figured it out and could be as well as 60%.Actually better than the average slot machine. Here in Pa. we have our cash 5 which is 1 in 8 of getting your dollar back. And the new Match 6 will be
Dec 23, 2003, 1:29 pm - Lotto Czar - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Punter wins $30 million jackpotNews Story
A punter from the NSW far north coast is $30 million (US$22.3 million) richer after winning the entire first division in last night's Powerball - the equal-biggest lottery win in Australia. (Editor: Australian Powerball, not the US multi-state Powerball)But NSW Lotteries said the ticket holder from the coastal town of Yamba, who won the major prize with a $12.70 (US$9.43) computer-generated ticket, wanted to remain anonymous.Last night's win follows the first - and controversial - $30 million P
Dec 12, 2003, 6:02 am - Todd - Lottery News

Pembroke Pines hits Lotto jackpot for a 4th timeNews Story
Who said lightning can't strike twice?It hit in this city for the fourth time in 11 years on Saturday when a Florida Lotto ticket, a Quick Pick, matched all six numbers in the $27 million drawing.Because it was the only ticket in Florida with the right combination, 7-8-16-19-47-52, the person who bought the ticket in S.K. Ali's convenience store will get the entire pot.Ali late Sunday didn't know which of his customers beat the 22,957,480-to-1 odds, but the 40-year-old manager of the Columbus Fo
Aug 25, 2003, 3:31 am - Todd - Lottery News

State could be lucky winner of $100,000 Powerball prizeNews Story
Montana Lottery officials announced last week that a $100,000 winning Powerball ticket, which was purchased in Kalispell in March, has yet to be cashed. If the holder of the ticket doesn't come forward by Sept. 26 - six months after the drawing - the money is forfeited to the state.While unclaimed six-figure jackpots are rare, every year Montanans leave several hundred thousands of dollars on the table in lottery winnings they don't bother to collect.For the year ending in July 2002, the state s
Aug 5, 2003, 5:09 am - Todd - Lottery News

Powerball $165 MILLION!Reply
Well I added four more lines to my 26 and headed off to Indiana to cash in my winning tickets from May 7-10.I don't check my tickets after a draw but I do check the pick file which I use to make out the cards with the draw file after it's updated. If the program highlites a win in the pick file then I highlite those same numbers on the ticket to be sure that they are there. In the past there has been times when I've seen a win in the pick file that wasn't on the ticket because I made out the ca
Jul 2, 2003, 7:27 pm - RJOh - Jackpot Games Forum

Harry613.....Reply
Yesterday I had a long talk with one of my lottery agents (New Jersey!) about the bonus play. He was mentioning about how people are standing at the lottery machine for up to 45 minutes trying to get a bonus match. He mentioned the same strategy that you did Harry: playing the same numbers.In one case, a customer played 7-7-7 something like 15 times in a row, never once getting a bonus match, even for $2. So on the 16th ticket he changed numbers - and I don't even need to say what happened -
Oct 12, 2002, 7:07 pm - Todd - Pick 3 Forum

What should or would you DO if you win??
I've never won the jackpot and probably never will. Everyone talks about what they would do or what should be done. But if it happened to YOU, and you scored the grand prize, would you be able to handle such a life change? How do you know which financial advisor is the best to go to? Many lottery winners who wound up losing their fortune blamed their financial advisors for their downfall. If someone wins, can that person go directly to the Lottery HQ to claim his/her prize, or does that pe
Sep 19, 2002, 11:42 am - rundown99 - Lottery Discussion Forum

TODD/BILLYLOCO-WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?Reply
I can't get over how some of you are trying to find some kind of wrong doing here (especially with the lottery)You don't even have your facts right and yet you go off posting about something is not right when you don't even know what the hell your talking about...Guess you don't live in NJ but the fact of the matter is everyone should be tipping their hat to the New Jersey Lottery Commission because it was the Lottery who contacted the media to make it public that a winning ticket worth that muc
Jun 16, 2001, 6:08 pm - Guest - Lottery Discussion Forum