Newfie Lotto Fraud

[skippy]

Glitch in lottery system, N.L. woman says

Mon Mar 10, 6:06 AM

ST..JOHNS (CBC) - A lottery player in Newfoundland says there could be a problem with Atlantic Lottery tickets after she says she was denied her prize.

Elaine Wells, of Foxtrap in Conception Bay South, says she bought a Lotto 6/49 ticket in January and won $20 on the TAG feature. But when she went to a ticket retailer to claim her prize, the lottery corporation's scanner at the store didn't register the ticket as a winner.

After checking the numbers, she says was convinced her ticket was a winner. She contacted the Atlantic Lottery Corp., and said the person she spoke with on the phone told her she must have already claimed her prize and forgot, which would explain why store's scanner did not approve the win.

"It aggravated me enough to say something's wrong here," Wells told CBC News. "Then, to be accused that I had done something wrong instead of maybe being open-minded and (admitting) there is a glitch in the system," she said of the corporation.

Wells said the lottery representative told her to send the ticket, with the validation slip from the scanner, to the corporation and they would look into the matter, and award her the prize if she did indeed win.

But Wells said the $20 prize isn't what concerns her. The validation slip that says the ticket is not a winner also says consumers should check their tickets manually, which leads Wells to believe that some people may not be getting their prizes.

"Now I wonder how many people, especially elderly, do not have access to the internet to check them themselves and just take for granted they are not winners and just throw [the tickets] in the garbage," Wells said.

There are features on Atlantic Lottery's website to check tickets and winning numbers.

No one from the Atlantic Lottery Corp. was available for comment.

The corporation handles gaming on behalf of the provincial governments in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island.

[slipperypete]

she probably didn't pay for the encore/tag feature lol... or the person didn't add it on the ticket... but charged her for it lol

[skippy]

Originally Posted by skippy

Glitch in lottery system, N.L. woman says

Mon Mar 10, 6:06 AM

ST..JOHNS (CBC) - A lottery player in Newfoundland says there could be a problem with Atlantic Lottery tickets after she says she was denied her prize.

Elaine Wells, of Foxtrap in Conception Bay South, says she bought a Lotto 6/49 ticket in January and won $20 on the TAG feature. But when she went to a ticket retailer to claim her prize, the lottery corporation's scanner at the store didn't register the ticket as a winner.

After checking the numbers, she says was convinced her ticket was a winner. She contacted the Atlantic Lottery Corp., and said the person she spoke with on the phone told her she must have already claimed her prize and forgot, which would explain why store's scanner did not approve the win.

"It aggravated me enough to say something's wrong here," Wells told CBC News. "Then, to be accused that I had done something wrong instead of maybe being open-minded and (admitting) there is a glitch in the system," she said of the corporation.

Wells said the lottery representative told her to send the ticket, with the validation slip from the scanner, to the corporation and they would look into the matter, and award her the prize if she did indeed win.

But Wells said the $20 prize isn't what concerns her. The validation slip that says the ticket is not a winner also says consumers should check their tickets manually, which leads Wells to believe that some people may not be getting their prizes.

"Now I wonder how many people, especially elderly, do not have access to the internet to check them themselves and just take for granted they are not winners and just throw [the tickets] in the garbage," Wells said.

There are features on Atlantic Lottery's website to check tickets and winning numbers.

No one from the Atlantic Lottery Corp. was available for comment.

The corporation handles gaming on behalf of the provincial governments in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island.

That is a bullshit excuse because whenever you cash your ticket, you must hand it over to the retailer and the retailer proceeds to put a tear in the ticket so that it can't be claimed again.

[ilsp2003]

Originally Posted by skippy

That is a bullshit excuse because whenever you cash your ticket, you must hand it over to the retailer and the retailer proceeds to put a tear in the ticket so that it can't be claimed again.

here in Ontario, the retailer can return the ticket to you because the terminal prints the amount you won and the word "PAID/GAIN" on the ticket. you cannot cash it twice.

if the winning ticket was already validated and paid then
the terminal should indicate that