Fake winning lottery ticket
27/10/2009 13:26:04
We all dream of winning the lottery with some people spending hundreds, if not thousands of pounds buying lottery tickets for that chance to be a lottery jackpot winner. One woman from the US who was desperate to win the lottery but didn’t have thousands of dollars to buy tickets with decided to take matters into her own hands and make a fake winning lottery ticket.
The woman, from Arizona in the US was so desperate to win some cash that she took the comical decision to attempt to use a home-made winning lottery ticket to try and claim a $3,000 prize. The deluded woman made a fake lottery ticket by cutting two losing tickets and gluing them together so the numbers appeared to represent a winning combination.
The lottery scam fell at the first hurdle though. The ticket was presented by the woman at a lottery kiosk where the sales clerk simply scanned the barcode, which is done with all winning lottery tickets, and the plan failed dramatically. Unsurprisingly the woman didn’t get her hands on the $3,000 lottery prize that she attempted to defraud but she will go down as one of the most stupid lottery scammers ever.
Lottery news stories of people attempting to cheat the lottery aren’t as unusual as you may think, however this latest lottery scam has to go down in history as one of the most stupid and badly thought out plans. To the average lottery player, or even to the average 5 year old, this lottery scam seems a silly thing to undertake.
If you want the chance to win big playing the lottery, as hard as it may seem to believe, you will need to actually buy tickets as opposed to making your own. You can buy tickets to all of the major world lotteries right here at WorldLottery.net. Simply choose a lottery from the links on the right.
Written by Kath C
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