{"id":95845,"date":"2019-01-09T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T00:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=95845"},"modified":"2019-01-09T16:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T00:53:57","slug":"10-million-lottery-ticket-thief-busted-for-grand-larceny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/10-million-lottery-ticket-thief-busted-for-grand-larceny\/","title":{"rendered":"$10 Million Lottery Ticket Thief Busted for Grand Larceny as He Tries to Collect Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A California man who believed his winning scratch-off lottery ticket was worth $10,000 got the surprise of his life last month when he was told it was actually worth $10 million. This was followed on Monday by another big surprise: he was under arrest for allegedly stealing his roommate\u2019s winning lottery ticket.<\/p>\n

\"Adul
Adul Saosongyang is led away by police after attempting to claim a $10 million prize at the Sacramento Lottery Office. He had allegedly stolen the ticket from his roommate and replaced it with a dud. (Vacaville Police Department\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Adul Saosongyang, 35, of Vacaville, was arrested at the Sacramento Lottery Office on a grand theft warrant and will no doubt be wondering just how substantial the increase in sentencing is for thieves of eight-figure sums<\/a> over five-figure sums.<\/p>\n

Several weeks earlier, on December 20, Saosongyang\u2019s unnamed roommate purchased a $30 scratch-off lottery ticket from a Lucky Store that turned out to be a winner. CBS reports that, for reasons unclear, the roommate believed he had won only $10,000 and returned home to blab excitedly to his cohabitant.<\/p>\n

Switched for a Dud<\/strong><\/h2>\n

But when the roommate went to cash his ticket the next day, he was told it was not a winner and also that it had been doctored. He immediately suspected that Saosongyang had switched the ticket for a dud while he had been sleeping and he contacted the police.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Saosongyang was at the Sacramento Lottery Office learning the real value of the ticket. The office — unaware the ticket had been reported stolen — congratulated Saosongyang, but before paying out it began an investigation that is routinely conducted on all winnings of more than $600.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This involved the examination of security footage at the Lucky in Vacaville, which aroused lottery officials\u2019 suspicions. In the meantime, they were contacted by police investigating the victim\u2019s complaint.<\/p>\n

Saosongyang was told to appear at the lottery office on January 7 to collect, but instead of being showered with untold wealth, he was booked into the Sacramento County Jail.<\/p>\n

Triple Six Fix\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As lottery scams go, Soasongyang\u2019s was pretty unsophisticated. At the other end of the spectrum is Eddie Tipton<\/a>, who was imprisoned in 2017 for installing a self-destructing hack program into the Iowa Hot Lotto\u2019s random number generator that allowed him to predict the numbers in an attempt to claim a $14 million prize.<\/p>\n

But it was the \u201cTriple Six Fix\u201d of 1980 that was the most famous lottery scam that ever came to light. It involved a plot to fix the Pennsylvania Lottery\u2019s three-digit game, \u201cThe Daily Number,\u201d hatched by the draw\u2019s own announcer, Nick Perry.<\/p>\n

\"Nick
In 1980, lottery announcer Nick Perry tried to fix the Pennsylvania Lottery by introducing weighted balls into the machines. (Image: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perry managed to switch all balls with weighted copies — apart from the fours and sixes. The weighted balls would be too heavy to fly out of the machines, which meant Perry and his co-conspirators knew this would produce just eight possible combinations of three numbers: 444, 446, 464, 466, 644, 646, 664, and 666.<\/p>\n

Fittingly, the numbers came up 666, but officials were alerted by the suspicious number of tickets purchased by Perry and his associates using just those eight combinations. Perry was sentenced to seven years in prison — and had a John Travolta film loosely based on him, Lucky Numbers —\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0but he maintained his innocence until his death in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A California man who believed his winning scratch-off lottery ticket was worth $10,000 got the surprise of his life last month when he was told it was actually worth $10 million. This was followed on Monday by another big surprise: he was under arrest for allegedly stealing his roommate\u2019s winning lottery ticket. 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