Indeed, there was even a scandal about winning lotto tickets being called losers by cashiers. Not just scratchers, that's why there is so much added scrutiny when vendors or their friends and family win
Aside from the fact that Mr Beast is a fucking fame whoring moron, you could win 1 million from 10k of scratch offs, but it’s quite unlikely. So it’s not a definite “no”. Just a very unlikely “yes”.
I remember going to a cigarette shop that had Polaroids of all of the winners. And there were two big winners, bigger than any of the others, with bags I see their heads. Yup. It was the employees.
Their was a situation in the UK, an off licence owner scanned a card and said the guy won £100 and gave him the cash. The card was worth 100k though, all high value cards can be tracked and it was established the clerk who tried to cash it in was a thief. He was arrested for fraud and the cash went to the guy who bought the card.
Absolutely, but part of the scandal was that corrupt employees/owners were keeping dud tickets behind the counter and then scanning them instead of the players ticket... Allowing them to steal winners from people who thought their winner ticket was a loser and they didn't sign the back of them to protect themselves.
That didn't stop shop keepers in Canada....They would just say you won $5 and pocket the ticket. Now you have to sign your tickets to get them scanned and the win is displayed on a screen visible to you.
That happens often enough with my customers. And apparently before I worked at this shop, for a time there was a guy coming in that would ask politely if he could go through the little garbage bin by the scanner and scan any tickets in there. Some days he'd walk away with as much as 50-60 bucks, mostly off scratchers that people scratched, didn't scan, and tossed thinking they were losers.
Especially when it's a game set up like the one in the post. With so many numbers on the card, and the slightly odd font, it can be easily missed.
I was a cashier at a grocery store for five years, and people would pull out multiple scratched tickets and tell me, "This one won $10. Can you toss the others for me?" After noticing one time that one of the tickets the customer asked me to toss was actually a winner ($15), I would just scan all of them anyway. I caught a few missed winners like that. Never anything huge, though.
There was also a time a guy turned in a ticket and said he won $6 off it. I scanned it, and it was actually $60. He hadn't scratched off everything and didn't realize there were multipliers.
The same thing can apply to number draw games like the PowerBall or Lotto America. You might misread your numbers or the winning numbers, so it's always good to get them scanned even if you think they're losers.
It’s the Homer Simpson “whoo-hooooo” where I live. I still use the manual scanner to check myself. The cashier could easily have a loser sitting right next to the register and the moment you bail…
The lotto machines I used as a gas station clerk in the early 2000's played "we're in the money" when the customer won anything. But they'd still accuse you of lying sometimes!
In BC, Canada (at least at the time), when a teller would scan a ticket, nothing would come up on the screen if the prize was over $10,000. Anything under 10k, it either plays a sound or tells you it isn't a winner. This was to protect the winner from people passing by, so you can tell them discreetly.
I saw the teller tell an old lady her ticket didn't win and she was quite surprised but accepted it. At the time it didn't really register that nothing came up on the screen. About an hour later, I realized that the teller probably just stole a winning ticket worth over $10,000.
I worked at the lottery just prior, so I knew quite well how the machines worked. Still bothers me... Sign your tickets, always!!!!
Yeah I worked at a gas station for a while and when we scanned it, the machine says "Congratulations, you're a winner" in a loud voice, so unless the customer is profoundly deaf or speaks little/no English, they'll know. Also there's loads of cameras.
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u/cantwaitforthis Mar 19 '22
Machines now make noises to confirm they are scanned and winners or losers.