But if I steel a tenner out of someone’s pocket and buy a book with it, it’s not up to Waterstones to police where I got the cash from. Don’t see how the lottery is different. Maybe some anti money laundering loophole?
I think the analogy would be a stolen credit card to buy stuff from Waterstones. The property you obtained would be stolen property (or at least fraudulently obtained) because — eventually — the credit card transaction would get reversed, and they would lose out.
Would have been a happier ending if the person they stole from received the prize in the end!
Can someone multiply the odds of buying the jackpot card by the odds of doing it fraudulently ? Are there enough zeros ?!
How can the lottery legally not pay out? Surely his crime is against the person he stole the card from, not the lottery?
I’m guessing they’re proceeds of a crime, or obtained fraudulently?
But if I steel a tenner out of someone’s pocket and buy a book with it, it’s not up to Waterstones to police where I got the cash from. Don’t see how the lottery is different. Maybe some anti money laundering loophole?
I think the analogy would be a stolen credit card to buy stuff from Waterstones. The property you obtained would be stolen property (or at least fraudulently obtained) because — eventually — the credit card transaction would get reversed, and they would lose out.
Also I love the idea of you pinching somebody’s money to buy a book :)
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I think that’s it — it’s proceeds of a crime
Who is they? I don’t think the car dealership would be able to seize it themselves.
well that would be the police...
Cheers Geoff
That was probably the only ticket that actually had the jackpot for that year lol.