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if you found a winning lottery ticket.....
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What would you do with it? Just say you saw a ticket laying on the floor somewhere public,maybe a pub or shop - picked it up and stuck it in your pocket. then you get home and check the numbers....and its a winner - £1 million.
Would you keep it for a while and see if anybody reports a missing ticket, and then claim it?
Would you claim it straight away?
Would you take it back to where you found it??
Would you keep it for a while and see if anybody reports a missing ticket, and then claim it?
Would you claim it straight away?
Would you take it back to where you found it??
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.There was a case locally recently in which a man asked a shopkeeper to check his ticket, he told him No luck. The shopkeeper's relative later claimed about £200k on the ticket but they were caught out. The Lottery were suspicious because of the time lapse between it being scanned, which is logged, and the claim being made. The shopkeeper, his wife and the relative were all jailed.
There is a huge fallacy here which renders the whole scenario extremely improbable. For it to be feasible the person would have to be someone who picks up discarded tickets in the hope that they may be valuable. The question should really be: " If you saw a discarded lottery ticket lying on the ground would you pick it up &c.." It's like picking up a discarded cigarette packet in the hope that there's one left in.