Thieves used a stolen card to buy a winning French lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros or $523,000. But they vanished before cashing in.

You mean all the winnings, right?

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    211·
    1 day ago

    Lmao; great bait, hope the thieves take it.

    They can’t cash in the ticket without ID, and there’s going to be a hold on it even if they tried getting a fake ID made. But if they take the ticket to the CC owner, there’s no reason he wouldn’t just have them arrested and keep the winnings.

    0 sum game either way.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      43·
      1 day ago

      Just because homeless men had the card doesn’t mean they stole it or didn’t. Perhaps someone wanted something to trade the dboy, knowing the risks of CC fraud and tossed the bag, homeless guys happened upon it and decided on a whim to try the card. Maybe after shock and excitement wore off, or they thought it through or a buddy pointed out their dilemma, they said bump it.

      Maybe some random finds the discarded ticket and takes it to the guy, asks for a cut, which they may or not get, maybe the victim doesn’t get any money either and the money goes back in the pot.