Two of the stupidest crooks in American history!
This Florida couple created a fake lottery ticket that won them a trip to the last place they ever expected
The Florida Lottery has been operating for 36 years and includes more than 85 different games.
Lottery winnings have created 3,800 millionaires in Florida.
But this Florida couple created a fake lottery ticket that won them a trip to the last place they ever expected.
Many Americans dream of buying a winning lottery ticket that changes their lives forever.
Some play games like Mega Millions or PowerBall, where they try and pick the correct combination of numbers to win the jackpot.
Others opt for scratch-off tickets that vary in price and come in several distinctive styles of games.
The Florida Lottery started in 1988 with a single scratch-off game and today includes more than 85 games.
During the Florida Lottery’s operation, more than $89 billion has been awarded to game winners.
The Florida Lottery Scratch-Off games give people the chance to win a prize that ranges from $1 to more than $1 million.
And Florida couple Kira Enders and Dakota Jones recently tried to pull a fast one on lottery officials by claiming to hold a ticket with a $1 million prize.
On March 1, Enders showed up at the Florida Lottery office in Pensacola and submitted an official claim of a $1 million winning prize from a “500X The Cash” scratch-off ticket that she said she purchased in DeFuniak Springs.
But officials quickly noticed the obvious alterations on the ticket.
The couple cut lottery tickets in half and pieced them together with tape to make a winning scratch-off ticket.
“The ticket had obvious alterations and is crudely pieced together from two separate actual scratch-off tickets,” deputies noted in the report.
“Each of those tickets were ripped horizontally and then carefully pieced together to become one fraudulently altered ticket using the top half of one of the actual tickets and the bottom half of the other,” the report continued. “That fraudulently altered ticket now visually shows that it is a one-million-dollar prize winner.”
But there was one major problem aside from the poor tape job on the ticket.