Lottery frauds can happen in the lottery world
In fact, it does happen a lot. There are so many people who are desperately wanting to win the bucketload of money in a short time. Cheeky presents to you the most recent 5 lottery frauds in the past couple of years.
- Eddie Tipton is a gaming geek working for the Multi-State Lottery Association rigged the winning lottery number for jackpots. He collected millions of Dollars for taking an advantage of the code loophole. He pleaded guilty for this offense in June 2017.
- Jun-Chul Chung pleaded guilty for stealing lottery tickets in April 2018. This insider scheme involved an amount of $12.5 million winning tickets. Chung’s family has been stealing lottery tickets for 8 months period. One of the stolen tickets is a super seven lottery amount of $12.5 million. Along with his daughter, Kathleen, they try to hide the winning lottery fund in South Korean Bank accounts.
- Edward Putnam just recently charged with fraud for allegedly faking a lottery ticket. He claimed to win £2.5 million almost 10 years ago. The investigation came out in 2015 when there was an evidence showing that Edward’s claim is not genuine.
- A pair of thieves successfully stole $30,000 worth of lottery ticket from an 85-year-old man in August 2018. Pietro Pistone reported that he was approached by a Spanish man and a Hispanic woman in a parking lot. The man claimed to have $1 million lottery ticket but unable to claim it due to immigration status. He offers to exchange the ticket with Pietro’s ticket. Unfortunately, Pietro trusts them and redeem the ticket to exchange it with theirs.
- Hassan Karim Choudhry pleaded guilty and sentenced 12 months in jail and payback of $257.799. He was charged due to his fraud of $5,000 worth lottery pay-outs totaled $524,000.