How A $3 Hotdog Uncovered a $24.7 Million Lottery Scam

[@spaceecks1793]

what i learned (if i hypothetically tried to rig the lottery): 1. Dont add your accomplices to your facebook friends list 2. Dont bring your cellphone with you when you buy the ticket 3. Have someone else buy the ticket for you You would think this wouldn't be too complicated for a man smart enough to literally rig the lottery

[@anouarkrassimovich7481]

i like the way you think :)

[@karmatraining]

When Boomers who should know better try to use technology to commit crimes

[@spaceecks1793]

@@karmatraining also the same people complaining that young people lack common sense lol

[@Si74l0rd]

In my experience the kind of people you hire as coders for bespoke work have a lot of one type of smarts, but not always an abundance of common sense.

[@bryanthegoalie5692]

Amended suggestion: no social media. Friends get left out. And do it once every few years

[@koholos]

The slow escalation in winning amounts among acquantences eventually leading to overconfidence is classic. If he’d stayed under $1 mil, he probably could have kept it up for a lot longer.

[@VarenvelDarakus]

True but problem is you can predict wining numbers but you cant predict winnings , as first sub is based on number of tickets bought "in that pool"(minus fees/profits they skim) and number of tickets in pool , as you dont need all numbers in all loteries , 1 off number still wins you big sum , 2 off is "some money" and even if you get all number right , its not uncommon for 2 , 4 , or 10 people get these , and this particular time he was unlucky that he was single winner of "all" the money in category of "all numbers" , in normal scenario this would be lucky as you win bigest amount of money , but for somone wanting to stay under radar..this was unlucky

[@tyrone6820]

@@VarenvelDarakus you don’t know how the lottery fucking works do you? The stores have big ass signs saying how much you would fucking win if you bought a ticket for the next game.

[@okiedokie2557]

@@VarenvelDarakus bro the jackpot total is published as soon as the previous drawing is completed

[@justinkase1360]

The real problem is that he didn't do what he normally did, just use a person he knows to claim the money. He got freaked out and raised a red flag by getting shady Canadian lawyers involved, lol.

[@VarenvelDarakus]

@@okiedokie2557 yes but depending if 1 or 4 people win , winins split , there was that broken machine where hundreds of thousands won jackpot but since so many people won was like 10 dollars not 10 mil

[@elhombreloco3680]

One of the most surprising things about all this is that the quicktrip store recorded surveilance with such high quality of video/audio and that multiple people recognized his voice and called in... And that the clerk remembered a random dude buying a lottery ticket a whole year later. If it wasn't true I'd think he was framed...

[@mrmotofy]

Well he did seem to be a pretty memorable guy. How many 400lb guys do you see...not very many generally

[@fabirkemarian6370]

​@@mrmotofyplus the clerk was shocked he bought only 1 hot dog. After seeing what guys his size can eat at buffets, I'd expect him to buy at least 14 hot dogs and a gallon of pop.

[@sachadee.6104]

@@fabirkemarian6370 🤣🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭

[@BassRacerx]

in 2005 it was likely analog video/audio

[@coolorphans]

Are we in the same country? @@mrmotofy

[@baylenlucas8923]

He could have easily gotten away with it had he simply made friends without a paper trail and got them to win it.

[@placeholderdoe]

He probably would’ve been free if he didn’t use Facebook lol

[@biggestfan.]

​@@placeholderdoe long term success breeds complacency

[@Hassan-zw9tb]

and told someone else to buy the tickets

[@fugyfruit]

That would require making friends with people who wouldn't give him up if interrogated, not going to happen

[@biggestfan.]

@@fugyfruit there would have been no interrogation if there were no suspects. This guy wrote the code that powered the RNG. Someone's got to win the lottery to keep the poor tax going. Last thing lottery wants is a PR nightmare.

[@Dargonhuman]

I find it hilarious that he actually tried to use "I didn't need the money" as a defense when everyone knows there's a massive gulf between "need" and "want", especially when greed takes over - "need" no longer factors into the equation as "want" overrides every decision and impulse.

[@shabadooshabadoo4918]

Every single time I've ever heard someone present "I don't need it" as a defence, the person has been guilty. lol

[@MrFlankSinatra]

@@shabadooshabadoo4918 yeah, because it basically implies “well if I did need it, I would have” 😂

[@eXHackeR]

And major difference between 100k a year and millions of dollars lol. I make almost 100k a year and I’m poor as fuck lol

[@davelowets]

What a stupid ststement as a defense.. 🙄 No, he didn't need it, but he SURE wanted it.

[@vortex_711]

@@eXHackeR how you pur as fuck with 100k a year?

[@joshuapatrick682]

If Eddie’s friend had just come forward instead of being shady as fuck…probably would have gotten away with it….

[@isbestlizard]

RIGHT? Like wtf waiting until the last hour to claim it then trying to get a dodgy canadian lawyer to claim on your behalf to a belize trust fund set up via a shell company like WTF dodgy red flags flying everywhere. Just be chill and normal and they could have been 16 mil richer

[@WindowsDaily]

Exactly. Just have a friend buy the ticket, redeem it for himself, then they can do whatever to give the money away.

[@soulreaperichig0]

But his friend already won the lottery before. It would definitely raise red flags if the same dude claims the lottery twice.

[@WindowsDaily]

Then make a new friend, and they can split the money.

[@pixelbite6830]

@@WindowsDaily they'd definitely blackmail him for even more money.

[@Vexxed]

I'm amazed they managed to solve this case. The way he went about this really should have been the perfect crime. Props the prosecutor.

[@deesmith8576]

and yet hes out free in just only a few year cus of money just like the other guy steeling billion of bitcoin. Money sets you free no matter who you take it from

[@LoveClassicMusic0205]

He would have gotten away with it if he hadn't been the one who purchased the ticket (especially in a place where there was a camera and microphone).

[@CobisTaba]

He was sentenced to 25 years. We will have to see parole, but still.

[@l.a.rodriguez9581]

Why couldn’t he get Rhodes to fly in the state and buy a lotto ticket literally anywhere? Also, his brother won a massive payout and no one said anything?

[@thedave7760]

@@deesmith8576 If only America could get some politicians in jail for 25 years or more, start with your current president.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

"My client doesn't even like hotdogs, your honor", has to be the best defense I've ever heard. This story reminds me of something I heard about a Nevada gaming official (named Ronald Dale Harris) who cracked the Keno code. Taking what he knew about the code, he and a buddy (Reid Errol McNeal) went to Atlantic City. He wasn't permitted to gamble anywhere, but his buddy bought a ticket that was a perfect win on every number, something that had never happened before. Investigation followed. When they discovered that the winner's hotel room was registered in the name of a Nevada gaming official, the gig was up. A deeper investigation followed and they found other shenanigans back in Nevada as well. Multiple charges were filed. From 1993 to 1995, Harris and an accomplice stole thousands of dollars from Las Vegas casinos, accomplishing one of the most successful and undetected scams in casino history.

[@scotcoon1186]

I agree, why live in des moines? Way too many people and Iowa's 2 lane highways are still speed limit 55.

[@davelowets]

Huh? 🤔 There were MANY other successful scams, that took WAY larger amounts of money from Las Vegas casinos than the Keno scam. Also the Keno scam was NOT "successful" because they got CAUGHT. 😕

[@georgetsokanis3542]

He rigged a rigged system

[@JackDrinkn2DollarJim]

Looks to me like He's never turned down a hot dog in his life.

[@johnpetry5321]

@@JackDrinkn2DollarJim if he was a Jack-in-the-Box guy, as his attorney claimed, that would explain his appearance.

[@AmphetamineDream]

I’m more fascinated that they had ONE programmer write the code for the lottery and it was never reviewed by any other developer or penetration tester.

[@Casey3-P-O]

How could they expect someone to remember what they were wearing on a specific day one year ago? That seems ridiculous. Even if something incredibly significant happened, I probably wouldn't remember what I was wearing. I'd say the only exception would be if the significant thing happened on the same day as something like a wedding or senior prom or something.

[@TheShadowblade9999]

I imagine its not about knowing exactly what they were wearing just having a rough idea of what they would wear. Also they compared the voices

[@warrengrannis4194]

Or the day you won the $16 million lottery? I feel like that's up there with important dates like weddings and proms.

[@polluxcastor8429]

Nah

[@shawnkillrow]

16m I'd remember the exact amount of hair follicles I had

[@Casey3-P-O]

@@shawnkillrow I think it's more likely that a person would remember what they were wearing on the day they found out that they won the lottery, but I think it's unlikely that they'd remember what they wore on the day that they bought the ticket/numbers. Especially if the person plays the lottery regularly or semi-regularly.

[@dustykh]

The real crime here is a 3 dollar gas station hotdog.

[@MK-ys2vz]

here in czechia where most locals earn about €1000 we have a gas station hot dog for €3 and it tastes like shit

[@crhu319]

In English you use "as" not "like" when it actually is literally made of shit. ​@@MK-ys2vz

[@friedrichnietzsche7999]

At the time 2 hotdogs from quiktrip was $2.37. I used to eat them a lot when i was a kid

[@BigE-ty3lq]

The real crime is how this dweeb pronounced Des Moines 🤣

[@peter-ek3uh]

I ate a hot dog! It tasted real good! Then I watched a movie from Hollywood!

[@ThatBearHasMoxie]

I'm totally impressed about how much research you did on this. Well done.

[@Damaged7]

Reminds of a great story about a guy who was supposed to monitor and check vegas slot machines for cheats. He modified his testing unit to write code into the machines which would hit a jackpot after a certain chain of coin inputs and arm pulls. Since he wasn't allowed to gamble in casinos, he got his friend to test it out.

[@Michael9-23-15]

Love that story as well.

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

People in that kind of business should always be shadowed.

[@davelowets]

WTF?? 😕 No background checks for a multi-state lottery, Director of Security, job position?? People end up getting a background check to work at B.K. these days.. C'mon man! WTF?

[@Pepesmall]

Seriously. You can't even get a job at most retail joints or even Amazon if you have a misdemeanor theft..

[@ionwhy2561]

Something you don’t know about white jobs and black jobs!! Jobs where you know that are only for white people don’t have background checks until a black person applies for it!!

[@NorthernConnectFilm]

States requiring you to publicly claim your ticket is lame. I don't want anyone to know if I get a large sum of money. Seems sketchy.

[@addaustin6730]

Part of it was to show people theres actually winners... id def leave the country after winning

[@cheeseistaken]

it's a necessary evil without it, how do we know the owner wouldn't silently take the money out? or the winner isn't in kahoot with the owners? or if there even is a legit winner at all? this stuff need to be public

[@lotus_flower2001]

@@cheeseistaken does the name need to be public though?

[@sluqqbugg]

Australia made it private after a winners son was held for ransom and then killed

[@xGOKOPx]

@@lotus_flower2001 Yes, because that's how you know that a real person won the lottery.

[@Sound557]

I get mad whenever I drive by the low income areas of my city and a huge lottery billboard is right above the freeway. It's like bait to a fish. They’re preying on peoples’ fear and desperation.

[@A_Ducky]

Thank you! Couldn't have expressed my own feelings better.

[@shinji391]

That's their problem, not yours.

[@anthropomorphicpeanut6160]

@@shinji391 it's almost as if humans can be good people and feel empathy for others

[@attilamarics3374]

@@anthropomorphicpeanut6160 It doesnt sound like emapthy. It sound like you guys think poor people cant make decision, they dont have agency.

[@MarioGoatse]

@@shinji391 It’s everyone’s problem you goober. You ever realise that there’s so much crime in poverty stricken neighbourhoods? And who do you think they end up victimising? And how much do you think they cost the government in welfare, healthcare, housing, etc? And what do you think their kids end up doing when they’re older? Poverty affects EVERYONE.

[@Creep302]

I love it when Vince uploads. He always goes so in depth about a topic I never even knew about, and he makes it so interesting to watch.

[@Conn0ro]

woah small world I saw your comment (me connor from elementary 💀)

[@locuslol]

@@Conn0ro Oh hey connor I know you! (i have no clue who you are)

[@EperogiLimousine]

@@Conn0ro wait Connor? Nah you’re really here? (Do I know you?)

[@davidswanson5669]

I don’t know if I like the editorializing of the stories. Actually this video in particular was pretty straightforward (no third person omniscient conjecture), but one he did about a 16 yr old stealing planes was full of it.

[@donbill-xh7mg]

Yes ooo

[@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly]

This would have gone very differently if they didn't involve any attorneys.

[@jonom9583]

I have never seen a man who was more of “a hot dog guy” than Eddie 😂

[@rexchiquine6049]

yep,,,

[@ballsdeep2520]

What a stupid title, this had almost nothing to do with a hotdog. He would have still got caught off he bought beef jerky or nothing at all

[@designereyebags]

if you ever consider doing long form content i’m totally on board. you have a real talent for storytelling

[@FluoFalI]

Vince Vintage is good but LEMMiNO does better when it comes to considering long form content

[@Savariable]

@@FluoFalI their styles are really not comparable imo, there is no reason they couldn't both do long term content.

[@xDRhein74]

@@FluoFalI they are different channels with different video styles, I don't think it's really comparable at all

[@Walt2323]

Making fun of Idaho and fat shaming 🤨

[@supraguy4694]

@@Walt2323 I used to be fat and I'm glad I'm not anymore. Fat shaming in the form of tough love is often necessary.

[@starjumper]

He really changed his bio to I’m a paid actor, I love the commitment

[@cymes82]

I feel like Eddie wasn't the only person who did this. I mean , having a multimillion dollar business , how do you explain the choice to "record" a single frame every 60 seconds. That had to be done deliberately.

[@RolandHazoto]

government cost cutting done along side poor risk assessment. If the government was it's funding always assume Military Grade, meaning the bare minimum to do the required job with low failure and minimum cost.

[@johnmoser3594]

A frame is all you need to identify people, and it sounds too complex to have two people colluding to unlock a case, do something to a computer, relock the case, and look like they're in no way preparing to or finishing up doing that in two frames 60 seconds apart. The fewer shots you take, the more you can store, and storing years or decades of 24x7 video is hard (mid-quality streaming for 1 year straight is 13 terabytes). Remember, they aren't wiping backups and rotating every 3 months here; he got caught several years later. It's not easy to securely store that much data long-term: it takes a lot of drives, and drives fail, accounting fails, etc..

[@trueriver1950]

At the time this was a sensible decision given the cost of data storage at the time, same the feasibility of changing the tapes more often. They assumed (reasonably, but in hindsight: wrongly) they they would need to identify who was in the area, not what that person was doing for every second they were there.

[@SanchoPanza-m8m]

Digital storage was very costly in the '90s. Video storage was prohibitively expensive. Storing a photographic image each minute and archiving the images for months on end was quite expensive too.

[@Pepesmall]

Well the fact is it actually didn't matter, he wasn't doing anything fishy when he was in there, the game was rigged from the start. Kind of make you wonder if it's as simple as that couldn't you just crack the system for the lottery by taking all the numbers and the radiation signature on those days and working backwards?

[@BuckleysPants]

Seems odd to me that the guy who was the Senior Information Security Consult would be the one who buy the ticket. He should know that he can't buy tickets, he should know that they film him buying the ticket. All he had to do was find the right guy to buy the ticket and split it.

[@MarioGoatse]

Exactly what I was thinking, but then it introduces much more risk. He tried getting a few friends to do it first and got away with it, then he got greedy and did it himself. Knowing him being a greedy POS, he probably would have offered some rando a small amount to buy and cash it, and then he’d get it out of his account, spend it all and come back looking for more. Probably even blackmail him lol. You’d need to find a shady person, but not a full blown criminal

[@lipservicecrew]

criminals dont want half , just ask a biden .

[@ztmackin]

Him doing it in a state that doesnt let you remain anonymous is also his downfall

[@famousamoso7]

He was running out of trusted friends/family. And having anyone win a 2nd time would be suspicious.

[@FortWhenTeaThyme]

@@famousamoso7 True, although he completely wasted most of them with tiny prizes. IMO the obvious strategy is find a trusted friend, and ask which of their friends could be trusted with something like this. Then wait for a big lottery (~20 mil) and split it 80-10-10 with them.

[@hennessyfn]

man i just gotta say i love ur editing style its insane all ur videos are unique

[@pigpuke]

Most important rule about crime: Don't carry a tracking device around with you

[@vengeance2825]

;phone.

[@AnnieNelson-wo6bm]

Not just a phone

[@JMcMillen]

@@AnnieNelson-wo6bm True. Got to make sure your vehicle can't be tracked through something like OnStar or by traveling on any toll roads.

[@timothyandrewnielsen]

Satellites record the entire earth... all the time. Youd have to be walking to the store and avoid every security camera on the way. Or be a ghost.

[@eamonia]

Zip tie your phone to a stray cat. Then, they'll see you moving around too.

[@nillypc42]

I'm always forgetting Vince for months on hand. The video also helps because I'm sick. Thanks Vince :)

[@Moon_x_sun]

I hope you get better soon :)

[@Didnt_ask69]

Skill issue

[@HismumYT]

The YT algorithm is really just not good, or is too sensitive to search and discovery, i watch every second of these videos when I see them but i rarely do see them and I hate that

[@kahok5ownage]

@@HismumYT he also only uploads every 3-5 months

[@nasis18]

​@Harko Mudson that too.

[@Sticknmove_b58]

Vince youre a very good video creator like very impressive story telling and just production of videos are sooooo good. I just recently found your channel but love it lol

[@PhilLesh69]

Sometime around 2008 to 2010 I met a guy at a bar who ran a vending machine business of some sort. I thing some of it was video slots and poker machines and other games for bars. Snywsy, on my way home I stopped at the 7-11 to get a late night snack and saw the same guy. He was standing at the counter where they had a glass case displaying about a dozen different lottery scratchers on big rolls. He had the clerk show him the serial numbers of the next ticket and then he was somehow able to calculate how many tickets he would need to buy from each roll to get the next payout. He even tried to explain it to me and the cashier. But long story short he bought tickets from three different rolls. He bought between three and ten scratchers from each roll and scratched them all. When he was done he had won about $475. I think he spent about $75 to 80 on the tickets.

[@ZiggyTheHamster]

This could be basic probability theory if they declare the prize probability and they distribute the prizes sequentially. e.g., if you know that there is a 1:1000 chance that you win $10,000 on a $1 scratcher, then by spending $1,001, you can be guaranteed to win $10,000 if they distribute the prizes sequentially.

[@TheFallenAngel13524]

@@ZiggyTheHamster Yea but they dont. The probability is determined when they mint the tickets. Every winner that is claimed lowers the probability despite what the ticket says it is. You can catch this time to time if you check the remaining prizes online. They'll continue to sells rolls of tickets well after all the prizes have been claimed.

[@omahanprabla3058]

Can comfirm this, having worked the morning shift at a rich area we had this small group of boomer vets that would buy countless lottery tickets and would ask me for the serials all the time to the point I'd memorize them, the owner kept the oldies there by giving them free coffee, and the would oblige by making the coffee themselves because they had their own special way of making it lol

[@damonthomas2975]

If you know the payout for each sleeve and have at least a strong idea of the results up to that point(serial number it's on) then that's all you need to be able and pull this off. At that point it's just basic math to tell you how much you'll win and how much it'll cost to guarantee you that win.

[@gringofett3944]

Prizes are not distributed evenly. They are mostly even. Meaning that retailers who sell more tickets will get more winning tickets. There is a probability to that and semi randomness to the pack of tickets but keep in mind it can only be so random. There is an issue with retailers continuing to sell tickets after all the prizes have been claimed. They are supposed to return those tickets to the lottery but sometimes they do not. Its on the retailers to do that as they do not get a visit from the Lottery Sales team every week. The sales people are supposed to pick up the tickets from games that have played out but they often do not keep as close of a track of that as they should. The placement of winning tickets on a roll is done with software and that is a trade secret but there are ways to calculate that if you are good at math and watching rolls long enough to know the results. The scratchoff tickets are more susceptible to cheating as they are printed products. Its the nature of the thing. As you can see from the video it took the guy who wrote the program to cheat the pick 6. There are some lottos that still use the balls too at least for the non-multistate draws. How do I know these things? Lets just say I am not legally allowed to play.

[@stomper2139]

I heard about this channel via some odd beef. Dude what a gold mine of content big ups bro.

[@mwhite4976]

I didn’t expect to watch this entire video, but you told this story in such a captivating way. I just wish the end wasn’t so abrupt. Still.. you’re an outstanding storyteller!

[@Ducky69247]

I hate it when that happens. It's just the state of journalism these days unfortunately. I read articles online that do the same thing. They don't wrap up the subject, they just stop

[@mwhite4976]

@@Ducky69247 Yes, quite odd after such a compelling, exciting story. It’s funny because my mom is a bit like that. We’ll be together having a good time, then suddenly she’s like “ok, I’m heading to bed”, and she’s gone and in the bed asleep before you even comprehend what’s happened. 🤣🤣

[@Ducky69247]

I think the worst thing about the video was that the hot dog was a lot more incidental than the title led me to believe. It was the bait that got me to click in the first place.

[@im1who84u]

How did the three dollar hotdog uncover the scam?

[@loverlyme]

It was quite an abrupt ending. Was not expecting that. It's like the narrator tripped over the camera so he just cut it out suddenly.

[@AwokenEntertainment]

it's amazing how all these lawyers thought they would get away with this..

[@juhcyslots]

Because they are used to getting away with murder. Literally

[@tellmemoreplease9231]

Lawyers, what could go wrong. Most of the corrupt clowns in Washington are Lawyers.......

[@normbograham]

the lawyers still got paid. they didnt commit a crime.

[@MrTrevorDidier]

Seems like everyone got away with it.. no one is in prison. They are probably still winning lotteries.

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

You dont know WHAT they thought.

[@deenak79]

Just found your channel, and your graphics are cracking me up.... love the Turpin kids!!! I've subscribed! 😅

[@LunaticEdit]

I did some contract programming for Eddie. I still have the emails. First project was legit but then he wanted me to do some work that, while legal, seemed… off to me so I backed out. Glad I did. I doubt he wrote the code he paid someone else to.

[@Lovuschka]

You dodged a tactical nuke!

[@LunaticEdit]

@@Lovuschka Yeah first job was for some task management related software, but then he was asking to work on some code related to the lottery display boards that show up on the highways. It really felt like he was just "testing the waters" as the progression seemed really bizarre.

[@joshuad1716]

Love that defense “im a single guy making 100k, whats another 16 million? i surely wouldn’t have done it” Flawless logic

[@surferdude4487]

Sure. It's amazing, how many innocent people are in jail.

[@skittleboi1193]

@@surferdude4487 wait your saying he is innocent?

[@surferdude4487]

@@skittleboi1193 LOL! In interviews with prison inmates, it was just amazing how many of them report that they are innocent.

[@skittleboi1193]

@@surferdude4487 yes I understand that but what I am saying is that this guy is very clearly not innocent.

[@surferdude4487]

@@skittleboi1193 OK, I'll spell it out for you since you don't seem to understand the joke. Neither are all those incarcerated people that claim to be innocent.

[@HandyDevithoe]

H3 family here really love this QUALITY content!

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

That was an interesting story. When you said it was illegal, I was like the winner would have to be involved with the lottery, and he was the guy who wrote the software. A good random number algorithm will produce a good random normal distribution, but it’s deterministic, so if you know the input, you know the output. So my next thought was he gave himself a way to inject an known number. Heck, with his level of control, he could have made it happen on a set day and then self-modify itself to destroy the evidence. Thankfully for the prosecution, greedy people are rarely satisfied. All in all, a great story. Hotdog lore: In New York, a hot dog is LEGALLY considered a sandwich! Why? For tax reasons! According to the New York State Dept. of Taxation, a sandwich can be cold or hot and is prepared and ready to be eaten, whether made on bread, on bagels, on rolls, in pitas, in wraps, or otherwise, and regardless of the filling or number of layers. To be subject to sales tax, a sandwich can be as simple as a buttered bagel or roll, or as elaborate as a six-foot, toasted submarine sandwich. It lists hot dogs as an example. This means that for sales tax purposes in New York, a hot dog is considered taxable and thus a sandwich.

[@tomperkins5657]

I was about to say the same thing! 😁

[@davelowets]

"a hot dog is considered taxable and thus a sandwich". Um, no... A hot dog is considered a sandwich and thus is taxable. Nice try, though

[@passiveaggressiveflamingo6851]

I’m addicted to random facts so thank you, my friend!

[@skeletonbuyingpealts7134]

Boston disagrees

[@Jin420]

That handle though... 😂😂😂

[@phishENchimps]

If you ever win a large sum of money in a Lottery. Always hire a lawyer and set up a Trust. It makes it much more difficult for people to know that you won the money and to then try to sue you for some random crap in the past. Set up the trust, then move to another place and live out your life in peace and with money.

[@WastedTalent-]

And don't blow your money on a mansion. People do that shit and forget they have to pay utilities, insurance, and property taxes on that. Next thing you know, you're broke.

[@grantmcdade5593]

Happy your vids are back up!

[@brionnalane6231]

Hey Vince, I really love your content. Could you please cover that one time when the Lacoste family got scammed out of $200,000 because their college aged daughter fell for a psychic scheme?

[@TikkaQrow]

7:39 fun fact, cloud flare uses several dozen 1970s lava lamps, in various colors, and measure the light out put of each one as a float, and use the decimal of the float as an input number. It's about as random as random can be, and works VERY well for generating cryptography keys

[@SianaGearz]

I think it's more of a gimmick than an actually useful tool. There's any number of true random number generators based on resistor shot noise or bandgap noise that are much more power efficient as well. Not that it matters at Cloudflare's immense scale, it's one of the symbols of the company and a piece of somewhat functional art.

[@CiscoWes]

10:03 Hillary Clinton popping up while talking about wiping computers clean 🤣☠

[@calamorta]

3:58 forcing a lottery winner to publicly provide their address sounds ridiculous

[@SerabiiBot]

It's like pointing a big neon sign at the winner going "Hey, go murder or mug or rob or otherwise pester this shmuck into handing over his money, willingly or not!"

[@SonnyBubba]

It’s one thing if you go on a TV game show and win $25,000. You’ll get some attention from family and friends. If you win $25,000,000, you’ll get some attention from the cartels. Some states now allow the winners to claim anonymously. Although they still inform the IRS.

[@e-curb]

Pretty much everyone that wins $24 mil in the lottery is going to move.

[@eccentric-j]

That is quite similar to the McDonald's Monopoly fraud case awhile back. I think the head security guy's friends and family also suspiciously won

[@WastedTalent-]

The mob got heavily involved in it, too.

[@haileyvoss1218]

played this video in my residential. all the clients loved it. thanks for bringing us some happiness iin a shitty place, vince. appreciate you.

[@stevent6614]

It would be foolish to think that this isnt going on in pretty much every state where the lottery is played, in my opinion.

[@gsfdallas3464]

Only in states where computers are used to draw the numbers. Some states still use ball machines where no computer is involved.

[@HyenaEmpyema]

Thats just ignorance. The 2 major lotteries still use rubber balls blown around by air. If computers are still used, the code is heavily audited by enough people that cheating would be next to impossible.

[@andytom91]

Glad I watch Vince immediately when I get an upload notification and was able to catch the new video before it disappeared..hope to see it return soon. Great content!

[@g3ngar04]

Glad to see some of the support you’re getting negating all of the xqc D-riders

[@markheatherly2915]

He actually wrote a algorithm to pick unsold number combinations that he had access too and then had his program pick his numbers at random times or whenever he wanted to and that's just the beginning.

[@ElSuperNova23]

QUALITY OVER QUANTITY! Love your stuff dude.

[@darrtetzy]

You forgot something: How did he pay for an $8.5million dollar house if he wasn't collecting a piece of the lottery "winnings"?

[@DavidKen878]

Clearly he was lying when he said that lol

[@natesturm448]

I still think it should be illegal to force someone to go public on stuff like this. Nothing sketchier than getting a cool multi-million lottery just to be told your identifying information *MUST* be public. That's just saying "this guy here has a load of money and he can be killed like everyone else can".

[@michaelsorensen7567]

Sure, but you hide that info and the mob pulls this same scam and launders millions and billions a year

[@johng4093]

That actually happened in one case (someone being killed for their lottery winnings), think it was Florida, and I believe they changed the law about publicly naming the winner. Now you still have to identify yourself properly to the authorities, but it isn't revealed to the general public.

[@scissornaut]

Not all states make you do it. I live in Iowa, and I too believe it's a very dumb thing. On the flipside, it keeps the complacency and transparency one would hope a lottery would have to the public, and to cover their asses in the end.

[@flamitaz]

Just because they can kill you doesn't mean they get your winnings. Lol. If I win the lotto, I don't care who knows it. I can always not answer my phone, not answer my door, I can always protect myself, etc. I mean, who walks around with a mill in their pocket?! You can kill me, don't mean you're getting anything else than what might be in my pocket. Maybe like $150? Lol. Jokes on you. 😂

[@peachii4894]

@@flamitaz no one walks around with a million in their pocket, but it's pretty easy to find out where people live these days if you have a full name + an area. If someone was to break into the house of a recent lottery winner who had yet to decide what to do with their money, I'm sure you'd be able to get a lot more than just a measly $150

[@lain6889]

The storytelling is so good, it makes my day everytime you upload a new video.

[@destinyfm7358]

Here from H3’s recommendation, love your channel already 💓

[@chloe5275]

Me tooo LFG family ✌🏻❤ Definitely a shame that such shitty circumstances led to it, but I'm glad that at least we got a genuinely great rec out of it! Meanwhile jesussavesbrokenlostconfuse is breaking a sweat dick riding in the replies of every single recent comment 😂😂

[@JakeeFilms]

Bro your videos are severely underrated so detailed and in depth love all your uploads and appreciate the work that goes into them

[@calamorta]

10:34 if any movie tried to pull that one frame per minute camera thing, we would all call it convenient bs

[@jaysnehpandey7089]

Fr

[@MarioGoatse]

@@jaysnehpandey7089 What’s the point of commenting like an ape? Just two letters that look more like a sound than words.

[@exiletheson6605]

Bro the security team watching a Microsoft PowerPoint

[@VestinVestin]

Reality doesn't have to be believable.

[@thejadedxyz]

14:05 I didn't there existed cuffs that big 😂😂

[@itsannapop]

11:14 "honestly I can tell" 😭😭😭 savage burn

[@siriusgd4753]

I remember hearing about this. I'm a retired software developer that wrote code in Vegas. I've used random number generators before for raffles which are the same thing as Lottos. You double 'seed' them with the current time down to the micro seconds. That number will be too hard to recapture in a human's normal activity. The guy wasn't that smart as was obvious with the way he flaunted his illegal gains. But the people around him weren't the brightest either.

[@ChrisSeltzer]

Honestly more surprising that no one audited the code running that many lottos for that many years.

[@FortWhenTeaThyme]

@@ChrisSeltzer I'd guess the risk would be that if someone saw and didn't report a vulnerability, they could get stinking rich.

[@adamarzo559]

Did you fully watch the video? Eddie coded the RNG. It doesn't matter what seed you use, he had access to the code, and as we heard, he made it so the seed wasn't random on specific days.

[@mason96575]

I died a little inside at your pronunciation of Des Moines 😭

[@brianwade4179]

Also of americium

[@KazoWAR]

imagine hiring a single guy to write your lottery drawing program not even have it audited or anything.

[@loveforeignaccents]

Twenty-five years?!? Holy smokes!!!! Anyhow, very interesting story from a great storyteller!! Thanks again for the upload & have a good one!!!

[@lakecityransom]

...but already out of jail as he said. White collar crime is the best crime.

[@SonnyBubba]

I’m surprised the state didn’t give him life without parole. The scandal could have ended the state lottery. I know one thing, if the mafia was still running the numbers racket, Eddie wouldn’t have walked away on parole.

[@lanzer22]

If only we can prove that he's a hotdog guy, it would be an open and shut case.

[@SanchoPanza-m8m]

*If only it had been proven that he was.... it would have been

[@lanzer22]

@@SanchoPanza-m8m On day I shall English, but not today!

[@Thaihandmade-wd9mh]

That shirtless best friends pic totally caught me off guard, made me spit my coffee! Hilarious!

[@septunilion536]

Always a good time when vince uploads

[@adenike33]

Just found your channel a few days ago. Your videos are so addictive. Love the topics you cover!

[@NAVYABHAN]

There’s an old term I learned in Computer Programming. It’s called G.I.G.O. Garbage In,Garbage Out! The Computer only does what the Programmer instructs it to. This will be the major problem with Artificial Intelligence.

[@joejackson3091]

It already is, as evidenced by AI having the same biases and political opinions as its makers.

[@henk4650]

So the hotdog had nothing to do with it?

[@MrYourmom2]

The “hot dog” is the voice clip about the Grizzler(hot dog) which was used to identify him

[@SanchoPanza-m8m]

You're right. The hotdog was never tied in as a causal factor in the conviction.

[@imfunatparties9463]

It's a clickbait title

[@urissaravia5296]

The audio recording of him getting a hotdog was used to match the voice So sort of

[@Ve453]

Clickbait garbage

[@randycarter2001]

Winnings are subject to federal income tax and possibly state income taxes. They can not allow the prize to be claimed unanimously. Some states allow the use of an alias in the advertising aspect.

[@Robinwawza]

The ad I got before this video was so amazing. I just wanna say thank you for making this video because I probably would’ve never seen it if I didn’t click on it. Thanks for all the hard work and time you put into this. That ad actually basically changed my life. Thank you

[@942antuan]

Your content is great I was sent by H3H3 and I subbed man hopefully no one continues to steal your content ❤

[@Broozki]

Just when I needed a video to watch. Cheers man!🎉

[@VinceVintage]

Enjoy! CHEERS !

[@ironic_9628]

LETS GOOO WE LOVE THE CONTENT VINCE ❤❤

[@mouse45]

Great vid! Came here from H3 to check out your channel. Subscribed and liked

[@loverlyme]

The participants in this scheme were only a few. I'm betting there are quite a few others that we didn't get to hear about or were never uncovered by the investigators. I wonder how much farther this case goes.

[@AllenHanPR]

It's kinda impossible, because he only had 2 programmed dates both are close to the end of the year. So in a year he could only win twice and he was only scamming for a couple of years.

[@chick-fil-agal2264]

If so I wish I was one of them😮😅

[@Velox80]

As a software developer, the thing that surprises me the most is that he was able to do this to begin with, especially with something as security-critical as the lottery. He should have had AT LEAST one other person looking at the code, to verify that there are no obvious bugs, or cheats such as this. There should also be a monitoring system set-up, so if the software in the system changes, at least one other person is notified. They took all the precautions in the world on the hardware-side, but absolutely ZERO security from a software perspective.

[@isruabebaw6743]

Bro we need more videos🙏🏽 …your videos are too good 😁😁

[@DrMatey215]

Great recap of an epic story. Worth watching, I shared this with some friends and there reactions were WOW! Thanks for the great upload.😊

[@voiceofreason789]

Great editing, dynamic storytelling!

[@MarkMcCluney]

That was most interesting and very enjoyably presented but why such an abrupt ending? Oh well, I enjoyed this greatly and I'm looking forward to seeing more. Thank you!

[@Once_in_a_Lifetime]

Especially after saying he was now on parole? What about the last Lawyer that specializes in hiding money. Sounds like another typical outcome when the FBI investigates crimes involving big money and then eventually leads to political involvement.

[@volundrfrey896]

The worst thing is that the lottery bothers with a vault and multi-key lock box for their number picking computers. But then somehow manages to hire a guy as the head of security who haven't even heard the term "opsec". He has the numbers, he has a friend willing to commit fraud with him. Tell your buddy the numbers and then go about your normal day while the fraud is being committed. Then have your friend claim the winnings and bob's your uncle. Crime isn't that hard people!

[@izawa9211]

Joe: Does something illegall, Cops doing reaserch" "why did joe give half of his winnings to this guy who can chose lottery numbers " Crime is easy yet you have no idea what you are talking about, you give 6milion to your family and than 1mil each to 3 of your friends, 1 of them is the guy who chose ghe numbers. That way if something happends cops wont be like ,"Wait a minute" not like you are gonna need more than 1mil anyways and if you do you might as well ask for more later

[@appledoreman]

"The security director for the multi-state lottery (granting access to the computer that picks winning numbers) had an 8,500 sq. ft. mansion decked out with a 20-seat home theater & a basketball court - and none of his lottery co-workers suspected a thing." Mmm...

[@zamp6969]

The only lawyer in history not to to examine the video evidence 😂

[@EdWun]

You know it’s a banger when Vince uploads

[@coopermcneil5552]

Vince don’t mind xqc stealing millions of videos you’re going to make it someday🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥you’re content deserves better

[@coopermcneil5552]

@@JesusSavesTheLostBrokenConfuse dude shut up. Vince is his own creator no matter what you say.

[@InstagramIsAScaryApp]

@@coopermcneil5552 meat riding is crazy over a man who dgaf about your existence 💀💀 go be a real man and get a job buddy

[@GypsumGeneration]

This story is the human equivalent of hiding behind 7 proxies.

[@Yzzami]

“Wait the lottery is a scam?” “Always has been”

[@DavidMcCoul]

Love the animations! Hilarious, and also very informative

[@snarp408]

You are one of my favorite content creators at the moment. Keep the weird stories coming!

[@Justin-uc8sc]

Little beans and whatnot?

[@h8GW]

Okay, but I'm struggling to understand why and how the hot dog played a major role in this.

[@krymsun3134]

Fr… lmao did he forget it

[@TheBilliardCorner]

he bought the hot dog and used his voice during the interaction with the cashier. Video got released of the lotto winner and his co workers tied his voice to him.

[@krymsun3134]

@@TheBilliardCorner ok but he still wouldve talked without a hotdog no

[@professahx661]

@@krymsun3134 Nah, you usually fill out a little bubble card and then just hand it to the cashier, who then scans it and hands you back a ticket with a barcode thats entered into the system. you walk up, fill out the bubble sheet, hand it to the cashier without saying a word, hand them the money, and then walk out. If he didnt "order" anything, his voice never wouldve been on the footage

[@ceedubs]

Finally someone else mentioned it in the comments. I thought I was going crazy, this literally has to be one of the most click-baiting titles. He only brought up the hot dog once and never tied it into how it got Mr. Tipton caught. Also that abrupt end, what was up with that?

[@michaelladue5655]

You confirmed the quoat that government hates competition.

[@nasis18]

Love his vids. Wish he posted more.

[@MrBrad12435]

Quality work takes time and research.

[@nasis18]

@@MrBrad12435 yeah

[@sehunscartier667]

Here from H3 to support, family!

[@kayoh30_]

Yo, I came from your appearance on Vaush's stream, the content looks pretty cool bro

[@BigZ7337]

This was really interesting, thanks.

[@brucewilson2763]

Eddy was a great hire. Excellent work on the background check.

[@cordelearts]

Bottom line the lottery isn't random, it's 100% rigged.

[@0MissKarisa0]

Your a great paid actor!

[@matttucker3]

Man Vince is goin places, great videos bro

[@FromSectorSevenG]

H3 and Hasan brought me to your channel. Now I’m addicted.

[@pequod_]

Crazy that this dude I stumbled on in 2020 is now consistently breaking 1M views and that this video is probably going to be among them