Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
He Scammed The Lottery Out Of Millions - The Eddie Tipton story
Sun, 02 Feb 2025
Eddie Tipton attempted to scam the lottery out $24,000,000.
Who is Eddie Tipton and what role does he play in the lottery scam?
So this guy's about to try and scam the lottery out of $24 million. Now, his name is Eddie. He lives in Iowa, and he's a computer programmer, and he also works for the Multi-State Lottery Association. And he's going to use this position there to enact this wild scam.
See, Eddie is actually the director of security at the Multi-State Lottery Association, and part of his job involves designing the software that randomly picks the winning numbers for these lotteries. And so Eddie's been working in this job for like two years and then one day everything changes.
Because he's at work and he's chatting with a co-worker and co-worker is joking around and he asks Eddie if he's put his own secret winning numbers into the software. And Eddie is like, say what now? And co-worker's like, bro, you wrote the software so you can set the winning numbers. And Eddie's like, oh, snap, that's right. I'm the one writing the software.
I actually could rig this whole thing and win the lottery and make myself rich. And that is exactly what he's going to do. So Eddie gets right to work, and he starts writing code on the Multistate Lottery Association computer. And this code will basically help predict the winning numbers. Then one night, he's working late in the office, and there's no one else around.
So he gets some of those yellow sticky notes and he starts writing down the different sets of possible winning numbers for this lottery that's about to happen all the way over in Colorado. Now the jackpot for this lottery in Colorado is a big fat $4.8 million. So there's a lot on the line here. However, Eddie has a problem. He can't just roll over to Colorado and play the lottery himself.
He's an employee of the Multi-State Lottery Association. It's against company policy for lottery employees to play the lottery. Plus, that would be very suspicious if a lottery employee won the jackpot. So then Eddie has to find someone to play it for him. And what does he do? Eddie recruits his brother, this guy, Tommy. And Tommy is a sheriff's deputy of all things.
But Tommy also just happens to be taking a trip to Colorado soon because he's gonna look for, and I'm not making this up, Bigfoot. Yes, Tommy is going several states away to hunt for the legendary mythical creature. I guess he's just into that kind of stuff.
So anyway, Eddie hits Tommy up and he's like, hey, while you're out there in Colorado looking for Bigfoot, could you play a bunch of these lottery numbers I got? Because one of them is gonna win. And Tommy, he's like, Aight. Now, while Tommy's out there in Colorado, he doesn't actually find Bigfoot. Womp womp.
But he does buy up a bunch of lotto tickets, and sure enough, when the time comes and they draw the winning lottery numbers, boom, one of Tommy's tickets wins. However, he doesn't actually win $4.8 million, because some other people win too, so the winnings are split between him and some other random winners. Regardless, Tommy ends up getting a cash payout of nearly $570,000.
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