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Florida couple arrested for making fake winning lotto ticket in hopes of tricking officials into handing over $1M prize
nypost ^ | Published April 22, 2024, 2:52 a.m. ET | By Social Links forDavid Propper

Posted on 04/22/2024 2:36:42 AM PDT by airdalecheif

Kira Enders and her boyfriend Dakota Jones allegedly attempted to trick lottery officials into giving them a $1 million prize with two torn scratch-off tickets spliced together to form a winning ticket, according to authorities.

The two tickets were ripped horizontally with the top half of one ticket and the bottom half of the other then “carefully pieced together” to show the $1 million prize winner, according to a police report cited by the Pensacola News Journal.

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But the Frankenstein ticket was not fooling anyone as the failed fraudster forgot to check the serial numbers of the two different scratch-offs, law enforcement said.

“I don’t think this is gonna be a made-for-TV movie type of situation because, uh, it was clear to the lottery officials — and obviously clear to us — that she had taken two tickets with different, you know, one side had one serial number, the other side had the other serial number on it,” Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said.

1 posted on 04/22/2024 2:36:42 AM PDT by airdalecheif
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To: airdalecheif

We aren’t gonna make it, are we?


2 posted on 04/22/2024 3:03:45 AM PDT by Ikeon (My only issues with stupid people are, they encouraged to talk and post stupid opinions.. )
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To: airdalecheif

A FLORIDA COUPLE…………….!


3 posted on 04/22/2024 3:08:27 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Dr. Ursus

They were creative, just not very smart, surely they won’t see the two different serial numbers on the ticket.


4 posted on 04/22/2024 3:16:44 AM PDT by srmanuel ( )
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To: All

5 posted on 04/22/2024 3:52:28 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: Liz

Hello, morons....

The winning tickets have a bar code and other code numbers that are registered in a database.

No other combination would check out as legitimate.

Stupid.......


6 posted on 04/22/2024 4:09:32 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Biden Democrats, no doubt.....who else could be that stupid?


7 posted on 04/22/2024 4:13:56 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: Liz

Dunno

Somebody tried the same thing years ago

It was in the USA but I don’t remember which state

They could replace all of the numbers and the barcode too

It STILL wouldn’t check out as a winning ticket against the database

I just can’t believe people think they could fool the system so easily

I used to program bar code scanners for product and also shipping (different jobs)

The product bar codes were set against the database - they were even rejected at the scan gun itself if the product bar code was improperly scanned

THEN it was further analyzed by check digit math and the barcode split up if it had a supplemental bar code combined with a generic bar code (this was in the software)

IF it got past all of that, THEN it was checked against the database


8 posted on 04/22/2024 4:23:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: airdalecheif

Dakota? Well, appropriately named Dakota and girlfriend are not very bright. But ambitious. You gotta give ‘em that.


9 posted on 04/22/2024 4:34:57 AM PDT by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow.)
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To: airdalecheif

This is just lame. What a pair of morons, crudely fashioning a fake ticket out of two torn ones. And I bet a pre-schooler could have done a better job of patching the two together.


10 posted on 04/22/2024 4:37:29 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: SaveFerris

From the looks of them, they need to be checked for drug use.


11 posted on 04/22/2024 4:40:33 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: Blennos

So you are saying the name “Dakota” suggests someone is not very bright?

Actually, I like that. The more people that think that the more people with low IQ’s will stay away from ND & SD.


12 posted on 04/22/2024 4:41:01 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: redfreedom

Presumably his parents gave him that name. And IQ is genetic. I rest my case.

But I’m still trying to parse your last sentence. Need a higher IQ to interpret it obviously.


13 posted on 04/22/2024 4:45:33 AM PDT by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow.)
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To: redfreedom

I just got it. It now makes sense to me. I looked at your About page and see you are from the Dakotas. And a longtime Freeper. And obviously endowed with a generous IQ.


14 posted on 04/22/2024 4:49:36 AM PDT by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow.)
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To: Blennos

Actually North Dakota itself had quite a stigma for many many decades. Somewhere in the 60’s or 70’s a major map maker left ND out of it’s USA Atlas. The east coast lefties also wanted to make much of the high plains a “buffalo commons” where just animals lived.

Many people up here took offense to that. I never did. People that think like the map makers and east coast lefties (along with Kalifornians) will keep out of our state. We have a very low crime rate and very few illegals. The few illegals we do have are hard working Mexicans, not the trash Biden is currently bringing in. It’s just too cold for them.

Enjoy your day!


15 posted on 04/22/2024 4:57:41 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: Liz

Looks like meth with her


16 posted on 04/22/2024 5:12:48 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Liz

Isn’t it sad when cousins marry?......................


17 posted on 04/22/2024 5:13:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Lock them up! Lock them up! They stole my idea. Which means they’ll be looking very closely at any stitched together ticket I fake. Which means I won’t get away with it. Lock them up I say. They ruined it for the rest of us.


18 posted on 04/22/2024 5:27:51 AM PDT by BipolarBob (The phone, the TV and the news of the world got in the house like a pigeon from hell)
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Classic meth faces


19 posted on 04/22/2024 5:29:30 AM PDT by pricilla (one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
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To: airdalecheif

A special kind of stupid.


20 posted on 04/22/2024 5:52:10 AM PDT by gunnut
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