How The FBI Arrested The $80 Billion Dollar Lottery Scammer
How The FBI Arrested The $80 Billion Dollar Lottery Scammer
The biggest lottery winner scam unfolded on US soil, and the FBI cracked it. The biggest lottery winners turned out to be scamming the system with a risk exposure of over $80 billion us dollars!
While the odds are incredibly low, the lottery has the possibility to change a person’s life. Winners have been known to get billions from the game. In 2017, Eddie Tipton, an MUSL (Multi-State Lottery Association) employee, was sentenced for his scam in Iowa known as the Hot Lotto Fraud Scandal. For years, Tipton, along with his brother, Tommy, and Texas native, Robert Rhodes, had manipulated the system in their favour. All with a few lines of computer codes in a random-number-generated computer. Due to the detailed investigation by the FBI and assistant attorney general at the time, Rob Sand, they eventually caught the man that had stolen millions of dollars.
