In 2019 a person walked into a Jamaican hotel wearing a long light robe, black gloves, and a mask from the movie Scream.

They walked out with the equivalent of 1.2 million U.S. dollars. Then they

disappeared. You're probably thinking, how did they steal it? But they didn't

steal it. They actually won that money in the lottery. They were afraid that if the public

found out who they were, something terrible would happen. Sometimes winning millions of dollars

might be more trouble than it's worth.

Today we're looking at the top 10 lottery scams and scandals.

After you hear some of these, you'll understand why the person in the mask had every right

to worry for their life. Hey all you weirdos, welcome to the parcast original crime countdown. I'm Ash and I'm

Elena. Every week will highlight 10 fascinating stories of history's most engaging

and unsettling crimes all picked by the

Parcast research gods. Today's topic is going to be lottery scams and scandals.

I've actually never played the lottery like straight up played.

No me either. I've done scratch tickets but never like mega millions or anything like that.

Same here. And I'm not great at scratch tickets.

That's why I don't do it because I always win like two dollars and I'm like I'm gonna cash this in and win big

And then I'm like nope another two dollars or I just go down to zero exactly you win the two dollars and then the scratch ticket sits in your drawer for like 10 years.

Yeah, and that's it.

Exactly.

And you know what, it would be really strange though

to suddenly win like a million dollars for literally doing nothing.

For literally scratching a ticket.

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