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Lottery scam?

June

USA Today warns against $20 scratch-off tickets still being sold after the top prizes are gone.

Even I’m indignant—and I don’t buy lottery tickets.

According to USA Today, about half the states that have lotteries engage in this seemingly shabby practice.

The states say it’s fair because other prizes are available.

Not when I’ve dreaming of multi-millions it isn’t.

More “here.”:http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-06-29-Scratchoff_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

This entry was posted on Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 4:56 pm by Noreen O'Donnell.
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Noreen O'Donnell For the last 20 years, Noreen O'Donnell has written about Hillary Clinton's run for the Senate, rebuilding Ground Zero, the Korean immigrants who travel north each day from Queens to work in nail salons, deadly runaway fire trucks and other stories in Westchester and Putnam counties. Now she's a columnist.

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Lottery scam?

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