Lottery Corruption

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The mystery of september 11 and the state lotteries

Source in MLA format: Mason Harry. “The Mystery of September 11 and the State Lotteries.”. Book Baby, 2013. 16-18. ITunes. Web. 26. Jan. 2014.


notes:
  • 666 lottery scandal:

  • Nick Perry = mastermind/announcer of daily number

  • Made weighted ping pong balls

  • Experimented with exact weight- white latex paint

  • all balls except 4 and 6 were to be weighted

  • brought lotto tickets in all possible combinations

  • EX 446, 444, 464, 466

  • won lotto- 666 drawn in 1980 april 24

  • Unusual betting patterns = caught

  • 1992- 0-0-0 lotto announced, but wrong

  • next day, 0-0-0 combination was the winning lotto

  • mistake- usually uses 000 to “test”

  • 17269 people get 5.512.0075 $

  • 2002- Columbian newspaper publishes winnign numbers 6-8-5-5

  • for pick four- newspaper computers crash

  • page that had lotto results had to be redone

  • got oregon lottery numbers from wrong place

  • instead he got the virginia lotto numbers

  • wierdly, virginia lotto numbers were the same as the oregon numbers

  • Reveals that newspapers have routine access to winnign lotto numbers “over the wire”?

  • Numbers chosen hours before lotto occurs = fraud possible

  • Mentions James Q Wilson reporter from 1960’s

  • James says states more prone to corruption

  • this is because no one knows anything about state candidates

  • Local governments less prone to corruption from local newspaper


extra:

MIT students "beat" the lottery

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07/how-mit-students-scammed-the-massachusetts-lottery-for-8-million/


Voltaire lottery exploit

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/05/how-voiltaire-made-a-fortune-rigging-the-lottery/



  • Voltaire, a philosopher, was involved with lottery exploitations.