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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by tlb on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:11PM (#15084625)
He started in 2005 and the investigation started in 2015, so he did get away with it for 10 years. He probably could have won a few, stopped, and gotten away with it if he'd been less greedy.

The code was clever, generating predictable numbers on a few particular days of the year. And it must have been subtle, to survive 10 years of nobody else noticing.

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by jstanley on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:18PM (#15084687)
Makes you wonder how many people do get away with things like this without anybody realising.
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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by pessimizer on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:11PM (#15085211)
Most criminals get away with most crimes. 40% of murders go unsolved.
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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by chiliap2 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @06:09PM (#15085642)
Wouldn't that mean they don't get away with most murders?
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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by wongarsu on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:54PM (#15087013)
It's close enough that undetected/unreported murders could tip the scales. If you get away with making it look like an accident, isn't in the statistic of unsolved murders.
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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by piptastic on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @06:15PM (#15085679)
sure, but most crimes aren't murders.
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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by mrleiter on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:25PM (#15084746)
The investigation started in 2010, so five years. But still, five years is a lot.
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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by wyldfire on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:44PM (#15084896)
I think a big flag would be lots of winning tickets with the numbers selected. I suspect some astonishingly high rate of tickets sold are selected by the lottery terminal ("quick pick").
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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by rev_null on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:53PM (#15085558)
He would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those pesky kids.
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