Cheaters at Hair Lotto

How did they not get caught enter twice?

WSS lotto (sometimes) is rigged. I tell you this because it worked in my favor when I had a cast member friend give me a helping hand.

"WSS lotto (sometimes) is rigged. I tell you this because it worked in my favor when I had a cast member friend give me a helping hand."

Great. More posts like this could get the lotto taken away for the rest of us. We don't need another ACL.

Updated On: 7/8/09 at 08:52 PM

They took their tickets away? Man. Those rules are frickin fascist, man.

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Someone with a name similar (one letter difference) was called at the In The Heights lottery. The print couldn't really be read, but there was a zip code line on there, and it was determined to be the other person's win.

And if 2 John Smith's were called and there were 2 John Smith's present, then they wouldn't think there was cheating. IT would, however, suck if one John Smith decided to go to a different lotto instead. Then the John Smith present would be SOL

I have seen people cheat at the Wicked lotto. Please note, I'm not saying I think it's rigged or there's anything fishy, as I won it once. I kind of wanted to say something, but they didn't win anyway. It is sad that people have the nerve to try something like that. Besides being wrong to do anyway, the thought of getting caught in front of so many people is so embarrassing!

I am glad that the people got caught and were denied tickets. When I saw when they had the zip code required for the HAIR tickets, I figured it was in case there were duplicate names.

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They actually weren't cheating. It was an inadvertent mistake.

The girl's friend had come and was entering "for her" in the lottery - not intending to go, but putting another entry in to help her odds out. Unfortunately, he did not understand the rules because he put her name on the slip (thinking that's what he should do so she could get the tickets) instead of his.

However, there's really no way to prove that it was a mistake and not an attempt to cheat, so they did the only fair thing and did not give her the lottery seat.

That's kind of funny that it happened that way, singtopher, because the girl who was "cheating" at Hair's name was also called right in a row.

Updated On: 7/8/09 at 11:19 PM

Obviously the person didn't know, or else they wouldn't have done so. It was a mistake, they suffered the consequences of not getting the tickets that they would have won.

I have always idly wondered if there have ever been two people at a lotto with the same name.

I too have encountered this, at the Wicked lotto back in the L.A. touring days, the name was Maria _____ and two women came rushing forward, the guy running the lotto had them both write their names on blank slips of paper, then gave the tix to the one who matched the handwriting. *shrug* apparently it's not as uncommon a problem as I thought it was, based on the fact that a few people here have come across it.

That's awesome that they took away the tix from the people entering their names twice.

I really wish they'd do something about people who enter twice using
first initial, last name; and
first name, last name
and they let them still get away with winning when both names are called (and, surprise, no one responds to the second name,) because 'technically' they're not the same name. I've seen it happen at Heights *and* at Hair so far. (Hmmm- ponders the fact that she may have given people ideas to cheat, but does not care if it means the lottos will finally stop allowing this.)

this might be the sociology student in me, but I wonder if they'd use the ZIP codes for any sort of demographic information.

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