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A man bet $325 on a golf tournament and believed he had turned it into $14.2 MILLION. DraftKings voided all five bets and refunded his money. He sued, arguing the sportsbook changed the rules after accepting his wagers. – Nicholas Bavas, 37, from Dallas County, Iowa, spotted an opportunity during the 2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am as bad weather threatened to cut the tournament short. – On February 3, he placed five bets predicting how the golfers would finish. – The bets were worth a combined $325, with potential payouts totaling $14.2 MILLION. – DraftKings was still accepting wagers even as the weather threatened the final round. – Bavas bet on the positions of golfers who were leading after the third round. – The tournament was eventually called after 54 holes, making those standings the official results. – According to Bavas and his lawyers, all five bets matched the final standings. – But DraftKings voided them and returned his stakes instead of paying the potential winnings. – This won't happen with prediction markets. – On a prediction market, traders take positions against other participants, with payouts determined by the market's contract rules and resolution process. – You're not relying on a traditional sportsbook to honor a winning bet under its house rules. – Bavas argued that DraftKings' rules at the time didn't allow the company to void his particular type of multi-player parlay. – His lawyers also argued that DraftKings changed its rules after the tournament to address similar situations. – DraftKings disputed his claim, arguing that its house rules allowed it to void wagers under these circumstances. – Bavas sued in 2025, seeking the $14.2 MILLION he believed he was owed. – But the case didn't end in his favor. In July 2026, the court ruled for DraftKings, rejecting his bid to recover the money. He risked $325 chasing $14.2 MILLION. The tournament ended early, his picks lined up with the final standings, and he took the fight to court. In the end, DraftKings won the legal battle, and Bavas walked away without the millions he was chasing.
Aisar5,488,678 次观看 • 20 小时前
A gardener’s iPad showed she’d won £1.1 MILLION on a Paddy Power game. They paid her £20,265.14 and said the screen was wrong. Four and a half years later, a High Court judge ruled the screen was right. – Corrine Durber was a gardener from Gloucestershire, England. – In October 2020 she was playing a Paddy Power game called Wild Hatter on her iPad. It combines a fruit machine with a wheel-of-fortune bonus round. – She won the first stage, moved to the next level, and spun the jackpot wheel. – The screen showed the “Monster Jackpot” of £1,097,132.71. – She took a screenshot. – Paddy Power paid her £20,265.14, the amount for the smaller “Daily Jackpot,” and gave no explanation. – She complained to the company the same evening. – Paddy Power said a programming error had made the screen show the wrong prize. Its random number generator, it said, had only selected the Daily Jackpot. – Its terms and conditions said the generator’s result was final and that it wasn’t liable for system errors. – That was the whole problem. Paddy Power wrote the game, ran the software that picked the result, wrote the rules, and then decided which number counted when its own screen disagreed with its own system. – A prediction market doesn’t work that way. There’s no house writing the game or choosing the result afterward. – You trade against another person at a price someone actually agreed to, and your payout comes from the person on the other side, not from a company deciding the number on your screen was a mistake. – She sued for breach of contract. – In March 2025, Mr Justice Ritchie granted summary judgment in her favor, so there was no full trial. – His 62-page ruling found that human error in mapping the game’s software caused the on-screen result to differ from the generator’s. It affected 14 plays over 48 days. – The judge said customers expect the house to pay if they bet on number 13 and the ball lands on 13. – He found the terms unfair and unenforceable under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and not part of her contract. – He also said it was unfair to place all the risk on the consumer for the company’s own errors, negligence, and inadequate testing. – She said the judge confirmed she had “fairly and squarely won £1 MILLION.” – She said Paddy Power had “tried their very best to deny me my rightful winnings.” – She said she would never bet with them again. A gardener hit £1.1 MILLION on her iPad, was paid £20,000 instead, and spent four and a half years in court proving the screen was right.
Aisar3,769,774 次观看 • 10 天前
A 58 year old metal factory worker from Hereford checked his EuroMillions ticket, thought he had won £71,000, put his glasses on to double check, and realised it was £71 MILLION. He said the money would change him and he wasn't going to pretend otherwise. > Ade Goodchild is a 58 year old factory worker from Hereford who had worked at the same metal factory for more than 24 years. > On Friday March 15 2019 he bought a EuroMillions ticket at the Co-op on Ledbury Road in Hereford. > The winning numbers were 3, 15, 24, 42 and 46 with Lucky Stars 9 and 12. > He checked his ticket on Saturday morning. > It made the winning sound and he thought he had won a fiver. > Then he thought it said £71,000. > He put his glasses on to double check and saw that all his numbers were circled and that it was the jackpot. > He read the prize amount again and realised it was £71 MILLION and that he was the only winner. > The prize was £71,057,439, which made him the UK's 15th biggest lottery winner at the time. > The first people he called were his mum and dad. He said they were in complete shock. > He kept the ticket in his sock drawer until he claimed it. > The National Lottery announced his win at a press conference at The Abbey Hotel in Malvern on Wednesday March 20 2019. > He said he was handing in his notice and that there would be no more shift work for him. > He refused to say the win wouldn't change him. His words: "It bloody well will." > He wants a new house with a swimming pool, a jacuzzi and staff, including a chauffeur and a personal chef. > He said he wanted space for his dogs, a spot for his hammock, and someone to take care of the view. > His plans also include a new car, top sporting events and holidays to the Grand Canyon and the pyramids of Giza. > He celebrated with a pizza. > He said he would spend some of the money on his family, who are originally from South Wales. A factory worker checked his EuroMillions ticket, thought he had won £71,000, put his glasses on, realised it was £71 MILLION, called his parents, celebrated with a pizza, and said the money would definitely change him.
Aisar14,212,263 次观看 • 1 个月前
A single mother put 40 cents into a slot machine at a New York casino and won $43 MILLION. The casino offered her a steak dinner and $2.25 instead. A judge sided with the casino. She walked away with nothing. – Katrina Bookman grew up in foster care. – She was homeless as a teenager. Raised four kids on her own as a single mother in New York. – On August 5 2016 she walked into Resorts World Casino in Queens and put 40 cents into a slot machine called Sphinx Wild. – Bells went off. Lights flashed. The screen displayed her winnings in full. $42,949,672.76. The biggest slot machine jackpot in American history. – She took a selfie with the screen. She was already planning what to do with the money. – A MILLION dollars for her son who wanted to open a barbershop. – A casino employee told her to come back the next day to collect her winnings after an official review. – The next day the casino told her the machine had malfunctioned. She had won nothing. – They offered her $2.25, the amount showing on her printed ticket and a complimentary steak dinner as a gesture of goodwill. – She said "Really? Are you serious? I felt insulted." – She refused both and hired a lawyer. – She filed a 17 page lawsuit against the casino, its parent company, and the slot machine manufacturer. – Her lawyer argued that even if the $43 MILLION was a malfunction the machine's maximum legitimate jackpot was $6,500. The casino should pay at least that. The casino refused even that. – The New York State Gaming Commission confirmed the malfunction. – Every machine in the casino had a small disclaimer printed on it: "Malfunctions void all pays and plays." – After years of delays including COVID the case finally went to court. – A judge at Queens County Supreme Court ruled in favor of the casino. – Katrina Bookman walked away with nothing. – Not the $43 MILLION, not the $6,500. Not even the steak dinner. A single mother who grew up in foster care put 40 cents into a machine, watched it display $43 MILLION, took a selfie, came back the next day and was handed $2.25 and a dinner reservation.
Aisar16,994,846 次观看 • 3 个月前
A 24 year old from Chicago who still lives with his parents spent months studying sports betting books and found a legal edge in football parlays. He won $800,000 across two Caesars casinos. Caesars voided every ticket and sent his $50,000 stake back instead. Two state gaming commissions sided with Caesars. He is now suing them in federal court. – Thomas McPeek is a 24 year old from suburban Chicago who lives with his parents. – He spent months reading sports betting publications and studying parlay structures, bets where multiple events all have to happen to produce a win. – He identified what he believed was a consistent edge in certain football wagers where Caesars was pricing odds in ways that gave a sharp bettor an advantage. – In August 2024 he walked into the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond Indiana with roughly $30,000 and placed hundreds of small bets at self-service kiosks over the course of a week. – He won $350,000. – In September he moved to the Isle Casino in Bettendorf Iowa also owned by Caesars and won another $450,000. – He placed his bets in small amounts at kiosks specifically to avoid drawing attention. – Total winnings across both casinos: $800,000. – When McPeek returned to collect at Horseshoe in October 2024 his winning tickets were voided. – Caesars said he had violated their house rules by coordinating bets across state lines and by structuring his wagers in small amounts. – Caesars refunded his original $50,000 stake. They kept the rest. – One casino had already paid him before catching on. Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City Indiana paid him $127,000 in winnings then asked him never to return. – McPeek filed complaints with gaming regulators in both Indiana and Iowa. Both sided with Caesars. – In 2025 he filed a civil lawsuit against Caesars in US District Court in Nevada. – Caesars filed a motion to dismiss in July 2025 arguing the lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction and that McPeek had agreed to their terms when placing his bets. – "It's not like I can snap my fingers and make the bets win," McPeek told CBS News. "They still have to win." – The case is still ongoing. A 24 year old who lives with his parents studied betting books, found a legal edge, won $800,000 across two casinos, and watched every winning ticket get voided.
Aisar12,767,182 次观看 • 2 个月前
A 20 year old bank teller stole $215,000 in cash and vanished without a trace. Five decades later on his deathbed, he told his daughter and made her promise never to look up his real name. Two years after he died, she launched a podcast that told his entire secret to the world. – Theodore "Ted" Conrad worked as a vault teller at Society National Bank in Cleveland, Ohio, starting in 1969. – On July 11, 1969, he finished his shift, stuffed $215,000 in cash into a paper bag, and walked out. He was never seen as Ted Conrad again. – The sum would be worth roughly $1.8 MILLION today. Investigators chased leads across the country for decades; his case was featured on "America's Most Wanted" and "Unsolved Mysteries." – Conrad resurfaced under a new identity, Thomas Randele, in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, sold luxury cars, married, and raised a daughter, Ashley, who knew nothing of his past. – In March 2021, dying of lung cancer, he told Ashley he'd had to change his name decades earlier, and that authorities were "probably still looking" for him. – He agreed to give her his real name on one condition: she had to promise never to look into it. – She agreed. She broke that promise within hours, searching his name that same night and finding hundreds of articles about a bank teller wanted since 1969. – Conrad died two months later, at 71, having evaded capture for 52 years. He was never arrested. – In late 2023, Ashley released everything she'd found in a podcast called "Smoke Screen: My Fugitive Dad," turning her father's private confession into a full public investigation. He asked her to keep his secret buried forever. Two years later, she turned it into a podcast instead.
Aisar7,725,612 次观看 • 2 个月前
A 54 year old man from a Lincolnshire village hit £1.7 MILLION on Betfred blackjack, spent £2,500 celebrating, then was told it was a glitch. Three years later, a High Court judge ruled in his favour. – Andrew Green was 54 and from a village in Lincolnshire, England. – Just after midnight on 26 January 2018, he started playing Frankie Dettori's Magic Seven Blackjack on an online platform hosted by Betfred. – When he stopped, the screen recorded winnings of £1,722,500.24. – He went out that night with family and friends and spent about £2,500. – On Monday, Betfred told him the win was so big it had to go to the game provider, Playtech, to be double-checked, which it called standard procedure. – On Wednesday, Betfred's Russell Young told him Playtech had found a glitch and he couldn't be paid. – His solicitor says Betfred then offered £60,000 if he signed a non-disclosure agreement. – He said no. – Playtech later said the evidence of the glitch was too confidential to share. – That was the whole problem. The game ran on Betfred's platform, the glitch verdict came from the company that built it, and Betfred decided his win didn't count based on evidence he was never shown. – A prediction market doesn't work that way. You trade against another person at a price you both agreed to, and your payout comes from the person on the other side, not a house that wrote the game. – He sued them. – Betfred argued the dispute should go to a full trial. – Mrs Justice Foster ruled in Green's favour. That was summary judgment, so there was no full trial. – She found the terms and conditions couldn't exempt Betfred from paying out on an apparent winning bet. – Betfred was ordered to pay his winnings plus interest, and it apologised. – After the ruling, he said: "The last three years have felt like hell on earth." – He also said the case was a win for everyone in a similar position. A man saw £1.7 MILLION on his screen, spent £2,500 celebrating, and needed three years and a High Court judge to get it.
Aisar408,670 次观看 • 7 天前
A former professional footballer forced to retire through injury went to buy a EuroMillions ticket. The shop sold him the wrong game by mistake. He left the winning ticket sitting on the counter and walked out. It made him £1 MILLION. > Terry Kennedy is a former Barnsley and Sheffield United defender who was nicknamed "the ginger John Terry" during his playing career. > An injury forced him to retire from professional football and he became a builder. > He went to a shop with his girlfriend Kay Yoxall intending to buy a EuroMillions Lucky Dip, thinking it was a Friday. > The shopkeeper told him it was actually Saturday, so he bought a Lotto Lucky Dip instead. > He accidentally left the ticket on the counter and walked out of the shop. > The shopkeeper called him back and told him the ticket could make him a millionaire. > He checked the numbers the next day on his lunch break at a building site. > His numbers were 10, 18, 20, 37, 49 and bonus ball 5. He matched them all. > The ticket was worth £1 MILLION. > A friend on the building site filmed the exact moment he found out. > He said he had planned to keep the win quiet, but the video getting shared outed him. > He and Kay toasted the win at a press conference in Barnsley. A shopkeeper's mistake, a ticket left on the counter, a phone call to bring him back, and a building site camera catching the moment a builder found out he was a millionaire.
Aisar1,559,595 次观看 • 24 天前
A Detroit woman deposited $50 into BetMGM and turned it into $3.3 MILLION over six days. The casino paid her $100,000, congratulated her, then suspended her account and kept the rest. She spent four years fighting through every court in Michigan just to get her day in court. She still does not have the money. – Jacqueline Davis deposited $50 into her BetMGM account on March 18 2021 and started playing a game called Luck O' the Roulette. – Her first bet was $4.50. She lost it. – She kept playing and over the next six days the Michigan Supreme Court later described what happened as "a heater of epic magnitude." – As her winnings grew she pressed her bets higher. – By March 23 she was wagering $5,000 per spin. – Her account balance reached $3,289,500.75. – She requested a $100,000 withdrawal. – BetMGM approved it by email. A VIP host called to discuss transferring such a large amount off the platform. They congratulated her on her winnings. – The next day her account was suspended for unusual activity. – BetMGM's investigation found a software malfunction had started on her 28th play. – Win amounts were being multiplied when transferred from the game screen to her wallet. – They said her account should have read zero by play 368. They removed the game from Michigan entirely. – Davis sued for fraud and breach of contract. – The Wayne Circuit Court dismissed her case. – The Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal. Both courts said Michigan gaming law gave the regulator exclusive jurisdiction over such disputes. – The Michigan Gaming Control Board investigated. – They found BetMGM had violated rules by failing to report the malfunction promptly and not cooperating fully with the investigation. Took no disciplinary action anyway. – Davis appealed all the way to the Michigan Supreme Court. – On July 22 2025 all seven justices ruled unanimously she has the right to take BetMGM to trial. The case was sent back to Wayne Circuit Court. – That trial has not happened yet. It is now 2026 and she is still waiting. – BetMGM has not commented. A woman turned $50 into $3.3 MILLION, was congratulated by the casino's VIP team, had her account frozen the next day, lost in two courts, won at the Supreme Court, and is still waiting for a trial five years later.
Aisar5,569,306 次观看 • 3 个月前
An Iowa man bet just over $300 on a loophole he found in a sportsbook's own rules. His bet should have paid out $14 MILLION. The company canceled it and sent his money back instead. – Nicholas Bavas, a bettor from Iowa, found what he believed was a near-guaranteed exploit in how DraftKings priced certain wagers. – He placed roughly $300 across bets structured to profit no matter the outcome, if DraftKings' own odds and rules were taken at face value. – Had DraftKings paid out as the bets were technically written, Bavas stood to collect more than $14 MILLION. – Instead, DraftKings unilaterally voided the bets and simply refunded his original stake, citing its house rules about pricing errors. – Bavas sued in a 39-page breach of contract complaint, arguing a bet is a contract, and if DraftKings accepts it, it owes what it promised. – His attorney said DraftKings gave no real explanation beyond telling him the bet wouldn't be honored. – The case was moved from Iowa state court into federal court in Des Moines. – As of the most recent public reporting, the case remains in litigation, with no public ruling yet on whether Bavas is entitled to any of the $14 MILLION. A $300 bet built entirely around the sportsbook's own rules should have paid him more than most people make in a decade. The company just canceled it and mailed his money back.
Aisar4,438,473 次观看 • 2 个月前
A woman won $127,000 at a casino she'd gambled at every week for eight years. As she celebrated with the dealer and the whole table, a pit boss pulled her aside and said she couldn't have the money. She'd technically been trespassing the entire time, and hadn't known it. – Denise Ezell, 65, had been a regular at MGM Grand Detroit for about eight years, gambling there weekly without a single issue. – On October 30, 2023, on what she described as her last bet of the night, she played a side bet at the progressive blackjack table and was dealt a four-card straight flush. – The dealer, the table, and everyone around her erupted, congratulating her on what turned out to be a $127,000 jackpot. – This won't happen with prediction markets – A pit boss then approached and asked for her ID, which she assumed was routine. – Minutes later, casino staff told her she couldn't be paid. She was, according to them, trespassing. – A prediction market doesn't work that way. There's no house, you're matched peer-to-peer, and your payout comes from the person who took the other side, not a company deciding whether to honor the number on your screen – The reasoning traced back to a single incident from 2015, when Ezell got into an argument with her cousin over shared betting money, and a security guard told her to leave for "panhandling." – She says she was never formally notified of any ban after that night, and continued gambling regularly at the same casino for the next eight years without incident. – "Do you think I would have gone down there and spent my money for eight years, knowing I was trespassing?" she asked reporters. – After months of trying to resolve it directly with MGM and the Michigan Gaming Control Board, she filed a federal lawsuit in June 2024, seeking the $127,000 jackpot plus an additional $75,000 in damages. She spent eight years and thousands of dollars as a welcomed regular. The one night she actually won big, the casino remembered a decade-old excuse it had never bothered to tell her about.
Aisar3,542,384 次观看 • 2 个月前
A man won £1.7 MILLION playing blackjack online at 1am. The casino called the next morning to congratulate him. Then called back two days later to say there was a software glitch and they were keeping the money. They offered him £60,000 to stay quiet and sign a document promising never to talk about it. He said no. – Andrew Green was a 54 year old from a small village in Lincolnshire England. – Just after midnight on January 26 2018 he opened the Betfred app and started playing a blackjack game called Frankie Dettori's Magic Seven. – He played for five and a half hours straight. – When he finally stopped the screen showed £1,722,500.24 in winnings. – He called Betfred. They congratulated him. Told him to call back after 9:30am to arrange collection. – He went out that night and celebrated with his family. Spent £2,500 on dinner. He was already a millionaire in his head. – Monday morning he called back. They said the win was so large it needed to be sent to the game provider Playtech for verification. Standard procedure they said. – Wednesday Betfred called again. Playtech had found a software glitch. The win was void and he would not be paid. – Their offer was £60,000 but on one condition. He had to sign a non-disclosure agreement promising never to discuss what had happened. – He said no. – He sued and the case went to the High Court in London. – The judge ruled Betfred's terms and conditions were not transparent and not fair. They could not rely on them to withhold payment. – Three years after he won the money the court ordered Betfred to pay the full £1.7 MILLION plus interest. – Standing outside the High Court he said "The last three years have felt like hell on earth. I think Betfred have treated me abysmally." – Betfred apologised for the delay. – They never explained how many other players hit the same glitch and quietly accepted the £60,000. A man won £1.7 MILLION at 1am, spent £2,500 celebrating before the money arrived, then spent three years in court to collect what was already his.
Aisar4,383,892 次观看 • 3 个月前
A care assistant in Wakefield won £47,182 on a William Hill jackpot game and was "crying with happiness." She already pulled £33,000 into her bank account to pay off her mortgage. The next day, William Hill called and told her to send it all back. – Gemma Bradley 47, from Wakefield, was playing William Hill's "Jackpot Drop" game on March 16 when the win hit. – She immediately withdrew the maximum her debit card allowed, £33,000, planning to move the rest out the following day. – She and her 69-year-old mother, who she lives with, celebrated together, believing their mortgage stress was finally over. – The next day, she found she could no longer access her William Hill account at all. – That evening, a William Hill representative called to tell her it had been a mistake on the company's end, and she'd need to pay the £33,000 back. – William Hill's own incident report showed 35,072 jackpot "hits" occurred during the roughly 40-minute glitch window, compared to just 518 during the same period a week earlier. – Other affected customers reported losing winnings they believed were as high as £200,000. – One 76 year old man had a heart attack after his own payout was reversed. – Gemma said she'd repay the money if required, adding: "It's a good job I didn't book a holiday. What if it's happened to someone who's gone out and bought a car?" She had the money in her actual bank account, already spent in her head on paying off her mortgage. A phone call from the company that put it there was all it took to ask for every pound back.
Aisar2,548,288 次观看 • 2 个月前
A New Jersey construction worker secretly claimed a $24 MILLION lottery jackpot without telling his coworkers. He had been buying tickets together with them for years as a group. He told them he was taking time off work for foot surgery. He had actually quit to collect his winnings. A year later they found out. – Americo Lopes was a Portuguese immigrant living in Elizabeth New Jersey. – He worked as a construction worker and had been buying Mega Millions lottery tickets every week as part of a five-man work syndicate with his colleagues for years. – In November 2009 he claimed a $38.5 MILLION Mega Millions jackpot and chose the lump sum payout of $24 MILLION after taxes. – He told his coworkers he needed foot surgery and would be taking time off work. He never went back. – For nearly a year none of his coworkers knew what had happened to him. – Then one of them discovered the truth – Lopes had claimed the jackpot that their group had won together and kept every dollar. – Five coworkers sued him in 2010. They provided evidence in court of their longstanding arrangement to pool money and split any winnings equally. The group had been playing together for years. – Lopes argued the winning ticket was purchased with his own personal money and had nothing to do with the syndicate. He said the group arrangement had ended before the winning draw. – The jury did not believe him. They ruled in favour of his five coworkers and ordered Lopes to hand over $20 MILLION, leaving him with just $4 MILLION of his original $24 MILLION payout. – He had also already spent a significant portion. – He had bought a million-dollar home and moved out of his working class Elizabeth neighbourhood within weeks of the win. – His coworkers each received approximately $4 MILLION after the court order. A construction worker secretly claimed a $24 MILLION jackpot his work group had won together, told his colleagues he needed foot surgery, and quietly moved into a million dollar house. A jury gave $20 MILLION of it back to the people he stole it from.
Aisar2,539,828 次观看 • 3 个月前
A man deposited a fake junk mail check for $95,000 as a joke. The bank cleared it. Six lawyers told him it was legally his money. He gave it all back anyway. – Patrick Combs was 29, living in San Francisco in 1995 with $200 in his bank account when a junk mail letter arrived offering him a get-rich-quick scheme. – Inside was a promotional fake check made out in his name for $95,093.35. Printed across the front in clear letters: NOT NEGOTIABLE. – In a moment of dark humor he signed the back with a smiley face and deposited it at an ATM. – He expected the bank to call him laughing. They never called. – Ten days later he checked his balance. $101,217.34. The check had cleared. – The promotional check was so close in design to a real check that it legally qualified as one under banking law. – By the time the bank realized what had happened it was legally too late to recall the funds. – Combs called his brother who told him to move the money immediately. – He tried to withdraw $95,000 in cash. He learned three things. All the large safe deposit boxes were taken, $500 bills no longer existed, and $95,000 in $100 bills did not fit in a small box. – He got a cashier's check instead and locked it in a safe-deposit box. – When the bank finally came for the money a month later they accused him of fraud and threatened police. – He refused to return anything until they admitted in writing that they had made the mistake, not him. – Six different lawyers reviewed his case and told him the money was legally his to keep. – The bank and Combs went to war for five months. He gave interviews on television and in newspapers. The public loved him. – He eventually gave every dollar back. All he wanted in return was a signed letter clearing him of any wrongdoing and lunch with the bank president. He got the letter but not the lunch. – He turned the entire story into a one-man show called Man 1 Bank 0 and performed it 2,000 times across the world. A man deposited a fake check as a joke with a smiley face signature. The tenth-largest bank in America cleared it.
Aisar3,105,651 次观看 • 4 个月前
A Florida couple taped two losing lottery tickets together, drove to the lottery office to claim $1 MILLION and told investigators they were "honest people who aren't into fraud." The lottery agent spotted the fake in seconds. They had signed their real names on the claim form. – Kira Enders and her boyfriend Dakota Jones lived in DeFuniak Springs in northern Florida. – In March 2024 Enders took a $50 scratch card called 500X The Cash to the Florida Lottery office in Pensacola and submitted a claim for $1 MILLION. – The ticket was two separate losing scratch cards ripped horizontally and taped together. – Then laminated to hide the joins. The words on the back of the two halves did not match. – Lottery officials identified it as fake within seconds of seeing it. – Before she submitted the claim Enders had already taken the ticket to three different stores to scan it. – All three machines said it was not a winner. She went to the lottery office anyway. – She had written her full name and home address on the official claim form. – She had signed an acknowledgment of the penalties for submitting a fraudulent ticket. – A lottery special agent called her six days later and asked her to come in to sign paperwork for her large prize claim. She drove straight back with Jones. – They were arrested the moment they walked through the door. – Both told investigators completely different stories about where the ticket came from. – Jones told investigators Enders knew the numbers did not match. Enders told investigators Jones had nothing to do with it. – Jones told the arresting officer "we are honest people and we are not into fraud." – The sheriff said publicly "if you are going to try to claim a million dollars you have got to do a lot better than this." – Both face charges including forgery and grand theft over $100,000 which carries a maximum of 40 years in prison. They taped two losing tickets together, laminated them, drove to the lottery office, signed their real names on the fraud form, got caught in seconds, came back six days later when investigators called, and told police they were honest people.
Aisar1,802,195 次观看 • 3 个月前
A retired convenience store owner read a lottery brochure for 3 minutes and found a loophole the state missed. He and his wife made $26 MILLION and got a Hollywood film. – In 2003 Jerry Selbee walked into a corner store he used to own in Evart Michigan and picked up a brochure for a new lottery game called Winfall. – He read it standing up and in less than 3 minutes spotted something the state had missed entirely. – When nobody won the jackpot and it hit $5 MILLION the prize rolled down to lower tier winners dramatically boosting their payouts. – He did the math. If he spent $1,100 on tickets during a rolldown he would statistically guarantee an $800 profit every single time. – He bought $3,600 in tickets on his first try and made $2,700. – He bought $8,000 worth and nearly doubled it. – He still had not told his wife Marge – One night sitting by a campfire he finally told her. – She said nothing for a long moment. Then said she could see the numbers. – They formed a corporation called GS Investment Strategies and sold $500 shares to their six children friends and neighbours including three state troopers a factory plant manager and a bank vice president. – They drove 900 miles to Massachusetts every six weeks when a rolldown hit spending up to $720,000 on tickets in a single session. – They checked into a motel room and spent hours sorting through 360,000 tickets by hand. – In 2011 the Boston Globe investigated and found no wrongdoing. – The state made $120 million from the Selbees buying tickets. – An officer said "I was dumbfoundedly amazed that these math nerd geniuses had found a way legally to win a state lottery". – Their corporation grossed $26 million over 9 years with nearly $8 million in profit after taxes. – They kept 65 plastic tubs of losing tickets in their barn in case of a federal audit. – They never bought a hot tub a sports car or a timeshare. – Bryan Cranston played Jerry in the 2022 Hollywood film Jerry and Marge Go Large. – The original 60 Minutes interview is on YouTube right now. He found a loophole in a state lottery brochure in 3 minutes that the state missed for years. Made $26 MILLION legally and got a Hollywood film.
Aisar3,217,718 次观看 • 5 个月前
A Nebraska businessman sold his company for $500 MILLION, got bored, and walked into a casino. In one year he lost $127 MILLION. The casino kept giving him vodka and painkillers in a candy box to keep him at the table. He sued them for it. They fined the casino $225,000. – Terrance Watanabe spent 25 years building Oriental Trading Company – His family's party-favor import business in Omaha, Nebraska, into one of the largest mail-order retailers in America. – In 2000 he sold it. His net worth was around $500 MILLION. – Then he had nothing to do. – He discovered a Harrah's casino across the river in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Started going to pass the time. – By 2005 he was flying to Las Vegas regularly. By 2006, he was living there full-time. – Steve Wynn noticed him at the Wynn casino and called him into a private meeting. – He could see that Watanabe was a compulsive gambler and an alcoholic. – He banned him from the property not wanting to violate Nevada law, which prohibits casinos from letting visibly intoxicated people gamble. – Harrah's called him the same week. They offered $12,500 a month in airfare, Rolling Stones tickets, $500,000 in gift store credit, and 15% cash back on any table losses over $500,000. – They gave him a free three-bedroom suite at Caesars Palace and he accepted. – 2007 Terrance Watanabe bet $825 MILLION across Caesars Palace and The Rio. – The largest amount ever wagered by a single individual in Las Vegas history. – He lost $127 MILLION of it. One man generated 5.6% of Harrah's entire Las Vegas gambling revenue that year. – Casino staff kept him supplied with his preferred vodka at all times. – When he became addicted to prescription painkillers, staff delivered Lortabs to him at the table hidden inside boxes of candy. – He sometimes played for 24 hours straight and once lost $5 MILLION in a single day. – At one point he played three blackjack hands simultaneously at $50,000 per hand. – His sister showed up at Thanksgiving 2007 and had no idea what had happened. She took him home to Nebraska. He went to rehab. – When the lawyers started tallying the losses, the real number wasn't $127 million. After Harrah's was forced to hand over their internal records, it came to $204 MILLION. – He sued Harrah's for $20 MILLION, claiming they had kept him intoxicated to keep him gambling. The Nevada Gaming Control Board opened its own investigation. – The casino was fined $225,000 for allowing him to gamble while visibly intoxicated. All criminal charges against Watanabe were dropped as part of a global settlement. The terms were confidential.
Aisar1,776,969 次观看 • 3 个月前
A 54 year old unemployed man from New Jersey, out of work for 15 years, bought two Mega Millions tickets, got distracted by his phone and walked out of the shop without them. He went back the next day, got them back from the store, and one of them was worth $273 MILLION. He said he wouldn't have it if it wasn't for the honest person who handed them in. > Mike Weirsky is a 54 year old from Alpha, New Jersey. > He spent the last 15 years unemployed while his wife worked. They divorced in October 2018. > He said he was being offered jobs paying $8 to $10 an hour at 54. > He spent about $20 a week on mostly quick-pick lottery tickets. > On Thursday February 28 2019 he bought two $2 Mega Millions tickets at a QuickChek in Phillipsburg, near the Pennsylvania border. > He put the tickets down to put his money away, started doing something on his phone and walked out without them. He called it "the typical cellphone deal." > He assumed they were gone for good. > Someone had found the tickets and handed them in, and the store held them for him. > He went back on Friday, proved they were his, and the employees gave them back. > The Mega Millions drawing was that night. > The winning numbers were 29, 33, 39, 60, 66 and Mega Ball 21. > He didn't check the tickets until Sunday. The New Jersey Lottery said he went out in a snowstorm to scan one. > It said he was the jackpot winner. He sat down and told his mother he had won 273 million dollars. She asked what that meant. > Lottery officials later said that if the person who found the tickets had signed them, they could have claimed the jackpot. > He chose the lump sum of $162.5 million before taxes. > The QuickChek received $30,000 for selling the winning ticket. > The New Jersey Lottery announced his win at a press conference in Trenton on Thursday March 7 2019. > He said he was looking for the person who handed in the tickets. He said he would give them something but keep it private. > He said he wouldn't have the money if the finder had kept it, and that anyone that honest was good enough for him. > He said he had met with a lawyer and a financial adviser, and that once they said he could, he would "go crazy." > His first purchase would be a Ford Raptor pickup truck. > He also planned to buy his mother a new car, remodel her house and take his family on holiday. > He said he wanted to be able to wake up and decide to go somewhere, then just do it. > That same week his ex-wife got in touch to say she was taking him back to court. > He also got his first job interview request in months, and turned it down. A man who hadn't worked in 15 years left two lottery tickets on a shop counter because of his phone, went back the next day, found they'd been handed in, didn't check them until Sunday, and told his mum he'd won $273 MILLION.
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A gas station owner in New Zealand applied for a $100,000 bank overdraft. The bank made a typo and gave him $7 MILLION by mistake. He spent it all in 28 days, fled to China, and triggered an international manhunt. – Hui Gao owned a small gas station in Rotorua, New Zealand with his mother. In April 2009 he applied to Westpac Bank for a $100,000 overdraft to help run the business. – The bank approved it. But when the employee typed in the figure they added two extra zeros by mistake. – Gao woke up the next morning and checked his account. $7 MILLION was sitting there. – He called his girlfriend and told her he was "f***ing rich" and had MILLIONS of dollars. – They did not call the bank. – In less than 28 days the couple withdrew $6.8 MILLION from the account. Transferred it to accounts in Hong Kong and China. – Then Gao fled to Hong Kong. His girlfriend followed days later. They left behind her six year old daughter. – New Zealand police launched an international manhunt. Interpol also got involved. – He was eventually caught. Sentenced to four years and seven months in prison. – His girlfriend got nine months of home detention. – The court ordered her to pay back the money at $60 a week. – At $60 a week it would take her approximately 2,192 years to pay it back. A man applied for a $100,000 bank overdraft. The bank employee added two extra zeros by mistake. He spent $6.8 million in 28 days, fled to China with his girlfriend, and left her six year old daughter behind.
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