A couple in florida He decided not to wait for luck to knock on his door and falsified a United States lottery ticket with the intention of passing him off as the winner and collect the prize of US$1,000,000.
Kira Enders and her partner Dakota Jones, from Walton County, Florida, were accused of presenting a lottery ticket state forged by trying to put together a winning lottery ticket with two pieces of used scratch-off tickets.
According to the judicial report published by Pensecola Journey Newsthe couple took on the task of recreate the winning ticket by horizontally scratching the top half of one ticket and the bottom half of the other in order to collect the prize from the 500X The Cash game of the Florida lottery.
However, The plan failed immediately, because the scammers did not take into account that each ticket has a serial numberso it was not difficult for the authorities to decline the authenticity of the 'winning ticket'.
Couple arrested in Florida for trying to collect US$1 million with a fake lottery ticket
Days after delivering the supposed winning ticket, the couple was summoned by the authorities, in what Kira Enders and Dakota Jones thought would be a meeting to review the ticket collection process. However, things changed completely.
The statements of the accused did not coincide.
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According to New York Post, Kira Enders told authorities that the ticket had fallen out of her car one day while it was raining., so this one got wet. According to the woman's statement, that was the reason that led her to scratch it right away, before it dried and she was forced to glue it to prevent it from breaking completely.
Couple faces charges for fake $1M winning Florida Lottery ticket:
Dakota Jones has been arrested and Kira Enders is wanted for allegedly altering a scratch-off ticket into a $1 million winner and submitting it at the Florida Lottery Office in Pensacola. https://t.co/ehUDAF4xd9
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