BC - “Australians have checks against lotto fraud” - LTE
Letter, Saturday, June 02, 2007, Vancouver Sun
Part of the problem with the B.C. Lottery Corp. is the people running it: Fire the top echelon and start over.
Take a tip from Australia. There, you can buy a registration card, which, when presented with your lottery submission, will register the ticket(s) in your name only. This costs $2 a year. Further, if your ticket is a winner and has not been claimed within two weeks, a cheque for the winning amount will be sent to you at the address on your registration card. So tickets lost, stolen or put through the washing machine are no longer a worry.
I lived in Western Australia for quite a few years, and I would occasionally get a cheque in the mail for a winning ticket that I thought I had checked, but obviously hadn’t.
Barry MacKay, Tahsis
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