Posted on 05/15/2019 5:27:44 AM PDT by vannrox
I read all that stuff about which states were helpful and which weren’t expecting there to be a payoff in the end that said what the data showed. Nope. What the heck indeed.
Whitey Bulger once won a large lottery ticket by extorting it from it’s owner. Most of these are probably due to some scam or another.
My Dad taught me,
“When there’s big money involved, somebody’s going to find a way to cheat.”
Yup. Buldger's message was simple; he was either a "partner" on the ticket you bought, or you ended up dead in the trunk of a car. Pretty simple choice.
Yes, and no. I'm pretty sure he made the winning ticket holder an offer that couldn't be refused, compensating the guy off the books so that Bulger could then have a laundered source of income for the tax people.
So what the heck is going on?
Do the ‘winners’ even exist?
Is this a scam where lottery officials are in cahoots with someone who purchases a winning ticket?
“When there’s big money involved, somebody’s going to find a way to cheat.”
Yep. “What one man can make, another man can break.”
When I lived in Georgia I saw this all the time. If an illegal alien hits a decent jackpot he gets someone legal to cash it for him. I'm sure it's common in every state.
I used to play scratch offs a lot and for the most part I didn’t do too bad overall. My loss rate was about 22%. I don’t do that hardly at all any more but I found there was one store where I experienced much higher loss rates. For a while I chalked it up to a fluke, but then it became aggravating. I stopped going there, but it was bothering me so I just had to know. I went in a few times and bought larger numbers of the same game, and I made sure to ask that he had plenty of those left first. That is when I found that sometimes the series (the cards are numbered) would be broken up.
I don’t know how they do it, but I suspect that certain people have identified a way to locate the jackpot cards, either precisely or within an area. The store owners/venders are in a better position to identify the patterns. I never caught on to what it was though
> I’m pretty sure he made the winning ticket holder an offer that couldn’t be refused,
Lots of people call that extortion. ;-)
Old people, or computer illiterate folk go to their ‘trusted’ vendor and ask to have their tickets checked. The vender checks it and tells them they ‘won’ 10 bucks and gives them the cash. Since the vender is not allowed to play, he or she has a partner who regularly is handed the winning ticket and shares the booty.
Years ago Esso (now Exxon) had a “heads or tails” scratch-off promo game. Some young fellow figured out a key to winninmg. IIRC, Esso ended up giving him a cash award and a college scholarship to show them the flaw.
Please quit your abuse of the news forum with chat material.
60 Minutes: How a retired couple found lottery odds in their favor
Best way there is to throw your hard-earned money down a rat hole.
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy once joked that the lottery was the redneck's retirement plan.
I don't know about most winners, but I did work with a man whose mother won $26 million in the California lottery in 1998.
He said that she wanted to buy him stuff, but he would only let her pay off his mortgage and buy him a new pickup. He had worked for my employer for over ten years and had a high-level security clearance, so I tended to believe him.
Please quit your abuse of the news forum with chat material.
What is the distinction? Is there some guidance posted somewhere?
All this stupid crap is very entertaining... Yawn...
Wake me when we get to discussing the groups of people who play and, suspiciously, NEVER win the lottery... I could provide a lot of info on that...
All the rules you want - and more.
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