One real fortune cookie this...

[cheeni]

Powerball lottery officials suspected fraud: how could 110 players in the March 30 drawing get five of the six numbers right? That made them all second-prize winners, and considering the number of tickets sold in the 29 states where the game is played, there should have been only four or five.

Answer: They all chose their numbers from fortune cookies from the same factory in Long Island City, Queens. (The unexpected payout totaled $19 million for the second-place winners.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

:) pity they don't make fortune cookies in sikkim

Lottery Fraud

[scaramouche777.livejournal.com]

There was a recent news item where an 80-something cancer survivor was defrauded of his lottery winnings and then given years of grief by Canada's Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation who didn't want to pay him his rightful winnings. The person who committed the fraud ended up with $100,000 of the winnings. Go figure.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/luckofthedraw/index.html