false Lotto claim

[flipnflap]

How often have you had your Lottery ticket swiped in a shop, told it hadn't won anything, watched the assistant bin it, and walked away wondering if you'd been lied to? Well, see this: http://www.dailymail....lottery-winnings.html

[knowabit]

I always think of that happening! Some shops they tear the ticket up and give it back to you or bin it. I always ask for my ticket back.

[EvianBaby]

They always give you the ticket back in my local shop. Or tear it up in front of you.

[ummmm]

Our shops rips them up.

[shoota]

I always ask for mine back for this very reason.
Not that I play that often these days.

[ummmm]

We play on-line now..

[Frank97]

14 months for attempting to defraud a pensioner. They should have got more imo!

[sandyRoe]

Don't people check their own tickets anymore?

[B00]

<<<Wishes she'd thought of it!

I check hundreds of these buggers.

[yogasun]

Sandy, I was about to ask the same question. OH always checks - then to make sure he hasn't missed a tenner(!) asks them to double check in the shop.

[joko]

it happened to me once...years ago i went to collect my £10 - after carefully checking and being certain id won, only to be told i hadnt...the machine wouldt accept it apparently - i just accepted it and thought i must have got muddled up, felt a bit daft - like id been 'trying it on' and left...then the more i thought about it the more i knew i wasnt confused... i had underlined the numbers so i knew they were there... what could i do though?

[B00]

in future joko, if in doubt, ask for a print out from the lottery machine. We can print a "sorry claim unsuccessful" (or worded similar) when we run the ticket through it.

[joko]

you should also always write your name and address on the back before handing it over too... i know someone who uses an address stamper and stamps all their tickets every time.

[Frank97]

I had the exact opposite once, went in to claim a tenner but was told I'd actually won seventy odd quid! :-)

[EvianBaby]

Maybe the machine really wouldn't accept it Joko because you'd marked the slip of paper with your underlining.

[joko]

thanks boo

it was when the lotto was new and everyone was excited about it and i just didnt think at the time... my boyfriend at the time was very into it.

i dont bother doing it anymore, odds are too high really

[joko]

mmm... i doubt it evian, as it reads the numbers, (and/or bar code?) and millions of people underline their tickets too... if that was a problem they would warn people not to do it, i think

i suppsoe if your lines obscured the numbers substantially but i would have underlined just a dash well under the number

[EvianBaby]

Not sure. Just an idea really. Often things like that have a little bit that says do not mark outside the box. (Not sure if lotto tickets do, can't remember the last time I bought one).

[B00]

Narrr, underling the numbers doesn't make a bit of difference when we run it through the machine to check 'em.

[B00]

And just to clarify, the machine's not reading the numbers, its reading the barcode at the bottom of your ticket.

[Messi_Ten]

...support your corner shop...who'd have thought they would be capable of such a crime?