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Ex-Lottery Worker Convicted of Programming System To Win $14M

Posted by Soulskill on from the mo-money-mo-problems dept.

An anonymous reader sends news that Eddie Tipton, a man who worked for the Multi-State Lottery Association, has been convicted of rigging a computerized lottery game so he could win the $14 million jackpot. Tipton wrote a computer program that would ensure certain numbers were picked in the lottery game, and ran it on lottery system machines. He then deleted it and bought a ticket from a convenience store. Lottery employees are forbidden to play, so he tried to get acquaintances to cash the winning ticket for him. Unfortunately for him, Iowa law requires the original ticket buyer's name to be divulged before any money can be paid out.

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  1. Correction: by RoverDaddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    " Unfortunately for him, Iowa law requires the original ticket buyer's name to be divulged before any money can be paid out. "
    Unfortunately for him, he had stupid friends - FTFY.

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    1. Re:Correction: by Virtucon · · Score: 3, Funny

      So the stock market then?

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  2. Re:First Clue... by bobbied · · Score: 3, Funny

    First clue something was wrong was the winning number was 1-2-3-4-5-6.

    Due, this was in C/C++... It was 0-1-2-3-4-5.....

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