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In the discussion thread: How MIT Students Scammed the Massachusetts Lottery for $8 Million [View all]

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Tue Aug 7, 2012, 12:03 PM

Nye Bevan (10,876 posts)

15. Smart kids. Good for them (nt)

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33 replies	Author	Time	Post
How MIT Students Scammed the Massachusetts Lottery for $8 Million [View all]	Tony_FLADEM	Aug 2012	OP
Lotteries are a tax on folks who are bad at math....	Scuba	Aug 2012	#1
True ...	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#3
I buy a ticket now and then. I account for it in my entertainment expense budget....	Scuba	Aug 2012	#4
I do the same, buy one once in a while, just on that wild chance. n/t	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#6
True. n/t	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#17
I do too	DiverDave	Aug 2012	#28
Classic case of a 'sucker bet' but I'm with you. It's like the Big Wheel	coalition_unwilling	Aug 2012	#5
I completely agree ...	1StrongBlackMan	Aug 2012	#19
Pennies in the scheme compared to wall street and the banksters. n/t	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#2
Reducing one crime's significance in relation to another is a slippery slope but you've got one...	Poll_Blind	Aug 2012	#9
Oh great. Now everyone knows about this and will be doing the same thing.	RC	Aug 2012	#7
Where does the scam part come in?	ManiacJoe	Aug 2012	#8
Though I indirectly referred upthread to what the students did as a crime, you're right.	Poll_Blind	Aug 2012	#10
Yeah, calling it a 'scam' is a great way to make it look like they did something wrong.	Gormy Cuss	Aug 2012	#14
Come to think of it, it was also the MIT folks who excelled at card counting, too...	Buns_of_Fire	Aug 2012	#16
I see nothing wrong with this.	Alduin	Aug 2012	#11
It sounds like Massachusetts ...	surrealAmerican	Aug 2012	#12
Someone is going to win the lottery sooner or later,	hedgehog	Aug 2012	#18
Massachusetts MADE money on the game.	closeupready	Aug 2012	#20
I see you are correct ...	surrealAmerican	Aug 2012	#22
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I agreed with the decision to	closeupready	Aug 2012	#23
Worth reading the whole article- great twist in the last 3 paragraphs. nt	Poll_Blind	Aug 2012	#13
Smart kids. Good for them (nt)	Nye Bevan	Aug 2012	#15
My father was a big gambler	goclark	Aug 2012	#21
Did he ever get banished? I know of some	closeupready	Aug 2012	#24
Nope, never got banished....	goclark	Aug 2012	#25
Why did you add the word "scammed" to your title?...	SidDithers	Aug 2012	#26
I copied the title from the article. They must have changed it.	Tony_FLADEM	Aug 2012	#29
Bogus OP title! Original story says "won" not "scammed."	GodlessBiker	Aug 2012	#27
They must have changed it. I copied the OP title from the article.	Tony_FLADEM	Aug 2012	#30
They probably caught the same flack you're catching.	Iggo	Aug 2012	#31
Welcome to DU	goclark	Aug 2012	#32
Wrong. It's not a "scam" if you figure out how to win the game while following the rules	CreekDog	Aug 2012	#33

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