Could Scientific Scrutiny Prove A Lottery Ticket To Be A Winning One If The Ink Had Been Washed Off

[sandyRoe]

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[Orderlimit]

Interesting Sandy

If you get bored try searching Raman spectroscopy ink analysis & micro-spectrophotometry

[Svejk]

She'll have to be good at guessing,,,If she's fibbing.

[ummmm]

There have been a few cases where cctv has proved someone had bought a winning ticket.

[Tilly2]

The numbers are still there but the bar code has been washed away.

[webbo3]

Yeah Tilly,

Both barcodes and the FULL date. only the numbers and the year are visible, and she managed to go to the shop where the tv cameras have been for the last few days.


Dave.

[mikey4444]

What I don't really understand about this is if her ticket had been through the wash cycle, why did all the printing remain, apart from the bar code and the date ?

[webbo3]

Mikey,

All that was left was the year and the winning numbers.


Dave.

[douglas9401]

The parts essential to identify it easily as a winning ticket and which, if present, would prove that this was in fact not the case?
That's a toughie, Mikey.
Maybe things will become clearer with the involvement of experts in document reconstruction along with the forces of law and order. Just to ensure fair play of course.
For the avoidance of doubt as it were.
That it was ever a winning ticket I mean. Can't be too careful y'know.

[THECORBYLOON]

Camelot knows where the ticket was bought and and at what precise time. The winner would need to provide all those details before Camel begins to consider if a prize should be paid out.

[EDDIE51]

As an aside , what if the original buyer dropped the ticket and someone found it. Could the finder Claim it.?

[mikey4444]

Then it would seem to me that there must be some doubt about this tickets authenticity. I washed a shirt with a £5 note in the top pocket once and it ended up as useless pulp, although it was still identifiable as a fiver
( only just )

Would all of the printing have faded to the same degree in the case of the Lotto ticket ? The reason I ask is that the machines are loaded up with blanks and all the relevant printing must be done at the point of sale, apart from perhaps the Lotto logo.

It doesn't make sense to me !

[mikey4444]

Eddie....can't see why not...there is nothing on the ticket identify the purchaser .....is there ?

[aelmpvw]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1170467/Fraud-couple-30k-lottery-ticket-supermarket-floor-went-spending-spree.html

[THECORBYLOON]

EDDIE, see here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8129534.stm

[webbo3]

No they couldn't , if the buyer knew for sure what their numbers and could prove where and when they bought the ticket they could contact Camelot and try to claim, look what happened to the people who tried to claim a lottery ticket they found.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1170467/Fraud-couple-30k-lottery-ticket-supermarket-floor-went-spending-spree.html


Dave.

[webbo3]

Posted my link 4 mins to late.


Dave.

[Togo]

I think that the site that sells a winning ticket gets flagged up by Camelot in these sort of circumstances. Now if the lady claiming to have the winning ticket has any connection to the site administration, alarm bells may well tinkle.

[sandyRoe]

She'll have some explaining to do if somebody else turns up with a ticket.

[Togo]

So would the shop owner sandy.

[EDDIE51]

I found a lottery ticket years ago. When the numbers came up the ticket had the first 2 and I thought it was going to be a winner, but 2 was all that came up.