[Finance] Career criminals scoop £4m Lotto win but are refused payout because

Stat Brother said:

bosses think it was bought with ‘stolen bank card’.

Sorry I know it's The Sun but sometimes it's worth putting that to one side, for the story.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8941567/career-criminals-denied-lotto-win-stolen-debit-card/


If this is true, and it certainly seems that Mark & Jon-Ross are unlikely to outsmart the Lotto investigators.
I do hope, but seriously doubt, the £4,000,000 is reunited with the card from which it was purchased.

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Bevendean Hillbilly said:

Oh Pleeeaaassee let Lotto do the decent thing and give the £4 mill to the poor sod whose card they stole.

That would be the perfect response...but when did anyone do the right thing in this shithouse country recently?

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Bevendean Hillbilly said:

Oh Pleeeaaassee let Lotto do the decent thing and give the £4 mill to the poor sod whose card they stole.

That would be the perfect response...but when did anyone do the right thing in this shithouse country recently?

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Goldstone1976 said:

This.

Did I tell you that I’ve had my card stolen? I can prove it was this card - it had 16 numbers written right across the middle of it.

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Bevendean Hillbilly said:

Oh Pleeeaaassee let Lotto do the decent thing and give the £4 mill to the poor sod whose card they stole.

That would be the perfect response...but when did anyone do the right thing in this shithouse country recently?

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Stat Brother said:

bosses think it was bought with ‘stolen bank card’.

I do hope, but seriously doubt, the £4,000,000 is reunited with the card from which it was purchased.

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Bevendean Hillbilly said:

Oh Pleeeaaassee let Lotto do the decent thing and give the £4 mill to the poor sod whose card they stole.

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One Teddy Maybank said:

This.

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Goldstone1976 said:

This.

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The Clamp said:

Yep

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gazingdown said:

Just pay the winnings to the card account.

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essbee1 said:

Pay the 4mill. to righful owner .

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marlowe said:

The report said they bought the winning ticket in Waitrose. Looking at them I'm surprised that suspicions weren't first alerted at the point of sale as they certainly don't fit any Waitrose customer profile. Only two possible reasons for them being in Waitrose, they were either on the rob or shopping on someone else's stolen card.

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Jackthelad said:

Scumbags shop everywhere, there is no profile for a Waitrose customer or Morrisons customer.

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Goldstone1976 said:

"Asked whose plastic it was, claimants Mark Goodram and Jon-Ross Watson named a mystery friend called “John” — but could not give his surname, address or phone number....and said he had disappeared “up North”."

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Gwylan said:

Back to the subject in question: I'm not sure how Camelot knows it was bought with a debit card but doesn't know the number of the card, that's not made clear in the story

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Gwylan said:

Oh, that's not true. In a previous life, I worked as a number cruncher for a supermarket chain and one of the things that we did was identify who was likely to shop at a particular outlet. This was in the early days of analytics, so the methods we used were very crude - they're a lot more sophisticated these days.

Back to the subject in question: I'm not sure how Camelot knows it was bought with a debit card but doesn't know the number of the card, that's not made clear in the story

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dazzer6666 said:

How are they paying for all that booze if they were 'down to their loose change' and Camelot haven't paid out ?

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