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A Con to Watch Out For. Case Study in New York: Con Man is Conned by Cops; Caught After Forging $30,000 in Lottery Ticket Scam.

Here’s a scam you should watch for.
It happened last year and the con man was sentenced in December.
Queens, New York District Attorney Richard A. Brown and New York Lottery Director Gordon Medenica nabbed  a Far Rockaway man who defrauded several individuals around the state out of large sums of money by creating [...]

Lottery Winners: Check Your Tickets; Sign the Back of Your Tickets

Jackpot and lottery winners: Did any of you happen to catch the report on Aug. 2’s DATELINE TV program about a lottery scam pulled off by a lottery clerk?
It may have been news to the TV audience, but I’ve been talking about it for years.
Briefly, California man matched 5 of 6 numbers playing the Mega [...]

What’s Luck Got to Do With It? Plenty. New York Lottery Mega Millions $133 Million-Winning Ticket is a Quick Pick

I lived in Queens once, so I’m pretty happy to report that the latest Mega Millions winner bought their ticket in that most excellent borough of New York.
It was a quick pick. That’s right: a freaking computer gave someone $133 million. Talk about just rewards. Someone had that luckiest of all days ever.
Isn’t that what [...]

Indiana Lottey Player Cleans Up With $500,000 Win

Kimberly Roach of Indianapolis had tears streaming down her face. But, they were tears of joy.
“I’ll probably cry for the next month,” said Roach. “This will change my life.”
Roach claimed $500,000 (half a million dollars) from Hoosier Lottery Headquarters in Indianapolis with her daughter, her brother Todd and her boyfriend Rob Bowman.
“The first thing I said [...]

A Lottery System that Works? Or Just Plain Luck? A Strange Story in Colorado

In my Internet meanderings, I came across a report from a Colorado TV station (channel 9) about a repeat winner who claims to play a winning system.
Now, we all know that systems don’t work. If they did, lotteries wouldn’t be the billion dollar business they are.
But what if someone actually devised a winning system? Is [...]

Watch Out: Lottery Scam Rears its Head in New Jersey

Let me warn you straight on. No matter where you live.
Don’t buy or play lotteries through the mail. Don’t pay attention to unsolicited letters telling you that you’ve won an overseas … or even Canadian Lottery. If you live in Europe the same thing holds. Watch out for unsolicited letters saying you’ve won something.
In fact, [...]

Israeli Lottery Scam Artists Arrested: They Cheated New Yorkers Out of $2 Million

A criminal ring located in Tel Aviv that targeted U.S. senior citizens in a telemarketing lottery scam was broken up last Friday by Israeli police, assisted by U.S. agents, reported the Jerusalem Post newspaper.
According to police records, the Israelis conned mainly New York seniors out of more than $2 million.
The crooks worked out of a [...]

Lottery Scam Watch: Keep Track of Your Tickets

A lottery retail clerk may have cheated a winning ticket holder out of $800,000.
Did anyone out there see this item in a recent issue of the New Orlean Times Picayune newspaper?
Well, according to newspaper reports, there is now an ongoing investigation by Louisiana State Police and the state’s Lottery Corporation to determine if a Louisiana [...]

Are lotteries ever rigged?

Many believe that lotteries, a game of chance that involves the random drawing of numbers, cannot be rigged; however, there have been instances where investigations have proven that this too can be fixed.
In the late 1990s, it was discovered that the results one of the many lotteries held in Italy, was rigged. The organizers, in [...]



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