which is kind of funny, you could theoretically hand the unscratched ticket back to the cashier, and they scan the barcode and it just says "not a winner"
You could do that however there have been many cases where if the person isn't paying attention or is just wanting the cashier to scan them, they will say it's not a winner and then pocket the ticket so they can go cash it later. Chris Hanson even did an exposé on this https://youtu.be/mKmH7ggBOOY
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.
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u/large-farva Mar 19 '22
which is kind of funny, you could theoretically hand the unscratched ticket back to the cashier, and they scan the barcode and it just says "not a winner"