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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by ergothus on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:58PM (#16996105)
From the DEFCON presentation I mentioned elsewhere, it also seems like if he hadn't flubbed up and tried to claim the 16.5 million dollar prize, he (and his friends/family) wouldn't have been caught at all.

I can't believe he put the code in when he knew it would be audited, but then I doubly can't believe he would poke them to take a second look by suggesting something odd was involved at all.

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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by giarc on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:59PM (#16997270)
From the original article here, it sounds like if he hadn't talked with the cashier at the Qwikstop he would be fine.
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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by tedunangst on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:22PM (#16997436)
Or if the intermediary had simply said they forgot what they were wearing.
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Re:Masterminding the largest lottery scam in American history by giarc on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:48PM (#16997646)
Ya I don't know why they would have tried to guess (unless Eddie told him the wrong info by mistake). It was nearly 1 year prior and no one would expect someone to remember what they were wearing when they walked into a gas station on a random Wednesday.
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