Luck or something fishy?

[igor555]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/luck-might-not-be-the-only-reason-some-people-win-the-lottery-over-and-over/ar-BBwQttt?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

TLDR: some folks in NC keep cashing lottery tickets.

@paper

In fact, the number of North Carolina lottery players who have claimed multiple wins has soared recently. In 2015, 223 players claimed big prizes from five or more scratch-off games, compared to just 59 in 2009. One woman won 21 scratch-off games in 2014, and 17 the year after. She has averaged about one sizeable jackpot per month over the past five years. Since 2008, another player has cashed in a total of 55 winning lottery tickets with prizes worth at least $600 each.

The odds of the latter happening are “less than 1 in 1 trillion, trillion, trillion,” Virginia Tech statistician George Rooney told the News & Observer.

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Someone should get Tommy Grand on their a$$e$.

#Cheaters

[elcoelhon]

Unsophisticated money laundering

[CMLSML]

Oh. Came here thinking this was about Trump.

[ohai]

Maybe they are lawyers or FAs who cash the lottery tickets on behalf of the winners, so that the winner is anonymous and doesn’t have to deal with paperwork. I remember a while ago when two banker guys cashed a big check, but they were not the true winners.

[higgmond]

Without disclosing how many tickets those folks bought, the study is kind of useless. I do recall though that not that long ago there was something on scratch off cards in one state that indicated which cards were winners. Some guy figured it out and would ask to see the tickets before buying them and would only buy winners.