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An Illinois man is claiming that a CVS employee stole his winning $1 million scratch-off lottery card after being “coerced” inside the store.
Carlos Figueroa said in a lawsuit filed last week in Cook County Circuit Court that he bought the "Merry Millionaire" ticket on Oct. 30 at a CVS in Waukegan, but it came out cut in half due to a machine malfunction.
Strange that CVS permits its employees to play lottery while on the clock with their own money, my company strictly forbids that for reasons just like this. I have a feeling CVS has a similar policy, and the employee will find out about it during the hearing, they better get ready for a huge disappointment.
Lottery machines inside the stores are extremely good at keeping track of information, pair that with the stores security cameras of the checkout section, the guy has a good chance of winning if what he claims is true, should be easy to verify.
IMO, something doesn't "smell" right! How does he know the ticket was a winner? Or did he find out the store sold a winning ticket and wants immediate payment before the actual winner comes forward. Something is just strange about this as I didn't see in the article where it stated the ticket was an actual winner, just that the employee was going to check to see if it was.
Also, if the machine gave out a torn in half ticket, wouldn't that be voided anyway? It's not like the employee took a perfectly good, winning ticket and personally ripped it in half! Sounds like the guy is just looking for a free payout!
IMO, something doesn't "smell" right! How does he know the ticket was a winner? Or did he find out the store sold a winning ticket and wants immediate payment before the actual winner comes forward. Something is just strange about this as I didn't see in the article where it stated the ticket was an actual winner, just that the employee was going to check to see if it was.
Also, if the machine gave out a torn in half ticket, wouldn't that be voided anyway? It's not like the employee took a perfectly good, winning ticket and personally ripped it in half! Sounds like the guy is just looking for a free payout!
Yup. The article gives us zero information, really. This is what journalism has been reduced to. Shoddy reporting is too prevalent and acceptable today.
"(Figueroa) is in need of immediate relief in that unless the (CVS employee) and the Illinois Lottery Board is restrained… he will suffer immediate and irreparable harm," the lawsuit says, according to the Lake County News-Sun
Immediate relief? Irreparable harm? Come on now. This has scam written all over it.
IMO, something doesn't "smell" right! How does he know the ticket was a winner? Or did he find out the store sold a winning ticket and wants immediate payment before the actual winner comes forward. Something is just strange about this as I didn't see in the article where it stated the ticket was an actual winner, just that the employee was going to check to see if it was.
Also, if the machine gave out a torn in half ticket, wouldn't that be voided anyway? It's not like the employee took a perfectly good, winning ticket and personally ripped it in half! Sounds like the guy is just looking for a free payout!
I have heard our state lottery reps say there have occasions when the reps will inform the store when they have the main prize ticket for scratch off games. They said usually its only the printers and the reps who know where the grand prize scratch off tickets are sent, everyone else is kept in the dark. Im not sure if this was a scratch off game or number drawing game though.
Correct,torn or cut tickets are void. Only thing a lottery will do (at their discretion),is reimburse the face value of the defective item. The rules are clear.
CVS in my state carries no lottery .
Our stores have converted over to self serve. And with it comes malfunctions galore! Had the ticket jammed,crammed, sliced and diced. The lottery makes zero liability on the machines operations . The retailer bares that burden.
This case will easily side with the lottery rules.
I have heard our state lottery reps say there have occasions when the reps will inform the store when they have the main prize ticket for scratch off games. They said usually its only the printers and the reps who know where the grand prize scratch off tickets are sent, everyone else is kept in the dark. Im not sure if this was a scratch off game or number drawing game though.
I'm sorry, there is exactly zero chance of this happening.
'Printers' and 'reps' have absolutely no knowledge of where winning tickets will be sent, at least not in any state of the US. Anything else would be madness.
I'm sorry, there is exactly zero chance of this happening.
'Printers' and 'reps' have absolutely no knowledge of where winning tickets will be sent, at least not in any state of the US. Anything else would be madness.
Every batch is tagged. And you bet the system is graced with which retailer has the batch. From the contracted print company to the lottery database,that information is known. What keeps folks in the blind is that ideology that it's not known. When batch tickets are activated...the lottery then knows which retailer will sell that ticket. It's been eluded to that certain locales suffering hardship will miraculously sell a grand winner in hopes the claimant will spend local.
When a batch is stolen...by your statement the state lottery would not know . Surely that isn't true.
They would know (obviously) because the retailer reported the theft to authorities ,the thief tried to cash in or (c) ,when the contracted print company did inventory count they saw the batch was missing.
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