Maybe other states manage their scratch-off tickets differently, but in Minnesota, if a retailer reports a package of tickets as stolen, that whole package can be canceled and can't be cashed in. All tickets have to be electronically verified before being cashed.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
These guys where stealing lottery tickets. They needed a large sample so they could reverse engineer the algorithm used to tie the serial number to the prize amount. This way they could determine the serial number for the $5million winner. There was an insider working with them why got access to the list of s/n's that went to the lottery agents so they could then buy the jackpot ticket.
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