WARNING LATEST SCRATCH OFF LOTTERY TICKET SCAM PLEASE READ AND PASS ALONG THIS INFORMATION!!
Here is the latest scam with scratch off lottery tickets! It's being done by crooked cashiers, store owners etc etc...
When you have a winning scratch off rub off lottery ticket and you bring it to the store to cash it in if you watch them person who validates it through the lottery machine if you didnt completly scratch off the ticket all the way at the bottom the clerk will scratch more off and the reason being below the actual game part is a series of numbers and after the clerk scans the bar code on the back of the ticket he needs to enter these numbers into the machine to validate your winning ticket to pay you, now here is how the scam works the dishonest clerk gently rubs away the bottom part of the scratch off ticket and he makes it look like natural scratches from being pulled through the lottery box like just a few lines but enough for him to get the validating number he needs but where to the unsuspecting buyer it wouldnt raise any suspision since the actual game still is covered and cant be seen, and then once he has this number he runs it through the machine and if the ticket comes up as a winner he buys it and if it doesnt he leaves it in the rack for a victom to buy the loosing ticket! Be carefull if you see a ticket with some small scratches on it don't chance it DONT BUY IT! Help Get this warning out! Tell everyone you know or feel free to cut copy and paste this message in an email and send it to everyone in your address book! Lets stop these theives! It's hard enough to actually win with out sitting down at a game with a stacked deck!
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Here is the latest scam with scratch off lottery tickets! It's being done by crooked cashiers, store owners etc etc...
When you have a winning scratch off rub off lottery ticket and you bring it to the store to cash it in if you watch them person who validates it through the lottery machine if you didnt completly scratch off the ticket all the way at the bottom the clerk will scratch more off and the reason being below the actual game part is a series of numbers and after the clerk scans the bar code on the back of the ticket he needs to enter these numbers into the machine to validate your winning ticket to pay you, now here is how the scam works the dishonest clerk gently rubs away the bottom part of the scratch off ticket and he makes it look like natural scratches from being pulled through the lottery box like just a few lines but enough for him to get the validating number he needs but where to the unsuspecting buyer it wouldnt raise any suspision since the actual game still is covered and cant be seen, and then once he has this number he runs it through the machine and if the ticket comes up as a winner he buys it and if it doesnt he leaves it in the rack for a victom to buy the loosing ticket! Be carefull if you see a ticket with some small scratches on it don't chance it DONT BUY IT! Help Get this warning out! Tell everyone you know or feel free to cut copy and paste this message in an email and send it to everyone in your address book! Lets stop these theives! It's hard enough to actually win with out sitting down at a game with a stacked deck!
This is actually a pretty old scam, and the Lotteries has taken some precautions to stop it, including moving the code around to different areas of the play area so no one would know exactly where to scratch to get it. Another indication would be that the tickets are not in their display or box with a long continuous strip of them, but are instead pre-individualized at the store. Many jurisdictions now have vending machines that dispense the tickets. I would imagine they are serviced by the retailer and not the lotteries, but perhaps by someone high ranking enough that the likelihood of dishonesty would be minimal.
Quote: JerryLoganI thought only white trash played the lottery.
how would this story indicate other wise?
