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Lottery code may have been cracked

EagleKeeper

EagleKeeper

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... suspects someone has decoded the algorithm on some scratch ticket bar-codes. That could make it possible to tell which tickets are winners without scratching them.
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But this is really only helpful to people who resell the tickets...and shouldn't those people be ineligible to win anyway? I guess you could still "sell" them to a friend and split the winnings, though.

Pretty neat hehe.
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
But this is really only helpful to people who resell the tickets...and shouldn't those people be ineligible to win anyway? I guess you could still "sell" them to a friend and split the winnings, though.

Pretty neat hehe.
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If one knows how to interpret the bar code, you can then refuse to purchase the losers.


 
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: Jzero
But this is really only helpful to people who resell the tickets...and shouldn't those people be ineligible to win anyway? I guess you could still "sell" them to a friend and split the winnings, though.

Pretty neat hehe.
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If one knows how to interpret the bar code, you can then refuse to purchase the losers.
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I dunno how they sell lottery tix in NV, but here in Jersey, you have to buy the ticket before you can inspect it closely. Even if you could, it would be awfully tedious to sit there and wait for people to buy the losers and then check the next one to see if it's a winner.

It seems like the concept of cracking the barcode's algorithm is more academic than anything else.
 
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
If it supposed to be secure, WTF is it doing in taiwan?

-PAB
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This only seems to apply to some scratch-off tickets sold in Taiwan and manufactured by a Canadian company.
 
Damn. Taiwan only.
If it were true, I'd go work in a convenience store until it's fixed.
What you do is keep the winning tickets and just sell the losers.
It would be even better if you can figure out the amount. That way you don't bother with the even money ones.
 
Originally posted by: klah
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
If it supposed to be secure, WTF is it doing in taiwan?

-PAB
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This only seems to apply to some scratch-off tickets sold in Taiwan and manufactured by a Canadian company.
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I wonder if this same Canadian company makes the ones that they sell here?

Hmm. 😀
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: Jzero
But this is really only helpful to people who resell the tickets...and shouldn't those people be ineligible to win anyway? I guess you could still "sell" them to a friend and split the winnings, though.

Pretty neat hehe.
Click to expand...

If one knows how to interpret the bar code, you can then refuse to purchase the losers.
Click to expand...

I dunno how they sell lottery tix in NV, but here in Jersey, you have to buy the ticket before you can inspect it closely. Even if you could, it would be awfully tedious to sit there and wait for people to buy the losers and then check the next one to see if it's a winner.

It seems like the concept of cracking the barcode's algorithm is more academic than anything else.
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NV does not have a lottery.

However, I have seen stores in other states where the tickets have been sold to customers after a customer "inspects" the ticket to "feel" if it is a lucky tickets.
Other times, I have seen them request a group of tickets which is not always the first ticket in the bundle.

A lot will depend on the clerk behind the counter.
A promise to share the winnings for a little cooperation can go a long way on minimum wage. 🙁
 
Assuming some of the tickets have fairly large payoffs you could just sit there with a big stack of money, and keep buying them until you get one that wins.
 
Well, even if you don't work in the store you could buy tickets and then resell them to unsuspecting fools at .50 on the 1.00. You keep the winnahs of course.

 
Here is the link I just read.

I was going to post a new thread but then found this one so it is here 🙂

It appears to be a worldwide problem, not just Canada or taiwan.

From the way I read it, tickets worldwide are no different then those in Taiwan, but it's in Taiwan that someone may have cracked the code so they are recalling them.

Probably going to be some radical group with people educated in the US doing the cracking and passing the info onto 'buyers' planted in stores etc.. to retrieve them and turn them over to a 'cashier' whom in turn cashes them and turns the cash over to 'spreaders' who spread the money around to finance their 'cause'

Could be just one person though 😉

 
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