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Canadian lottery cons arrested
 March 12, 2009, 3:24 am (2 years ago)According to the Vancouver Sun, the British Columbia Lottery Corporation has arrested no less than 8 lottery ticket retailers conning patrons throughout the last 2 years, though for comparatively small amounts. For example, a worker scratched over 100 scratch-and-win tickets previous to putting them up for sale, and was busted and fired.
Quoting internal BCLC documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the Sun explained that suspicion on lottery scheme in the Canadian province were first brought up in late 2006, causing the lottery company to release new measures that contained having its security staff go over every retailer win in excess of Cdn$1 000 in value.
All 8 verified scam cases from 2007 involved prizes below Cdn$1 000, indicating false retailers may be taking minor prizes since they know they are not as closely inspected.
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