I occasionally see news stories of a robbery or burglary where the perpetrator cops some scratch tickets along with the other stuff.

with the lottery folks simply be able to void that batch of tickets? or, even more, use those tickets to catch him if he tries to cash in?

  • ShadowA
    24·
    22 days ago

    I don’t see why not. Each one has a unique serial number, and they would track which ones went to which stores.

    I doubt it’s worth the hassle if they stole a few tickets, but if there was a major theft or a murder then definitely.

    • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
      5·
      22 days ago

      Ya, but would you need to know the serial number yourself? How would you help them to know what specific tickets were stolen?

      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
        3·
        22 days ago

        I guess you could have every store selling them be required to register the sale mapped to the serial number, and disqualify any unregistered ticket. It’d be a bit of a hassle, but certainly doable.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      22 days ago

      I’m just guessing, but they would know the serial numbers that got stolen. Let’s say 1230001-1231000. Out of those 1000 tickets, the company that makes the tickets, could look up what the big winners were. If there was something like win $10,000 then that would be easier to flag, because they don’t get cashed out at the gas station. If there was small winnings like $5-$10, I could see the scratcher company just writing those losses off.