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In November of 2011, somebody in Connecticut won a Power ball prize worth more than $254 million. An unidentified person tried to claim it, but said that he lost the ticket. If this person really did win the Power ball jackpot legitimately, I hope that he at least signed his ticket. Why? Signing a lottery ticket is a good idea. Maybe he lost the ticket. If that’s the case, he might never find it. However, maybe the ticket was stolen from him. If it was stolen, at least the thief would not be able to cash the ticket if it already had a signature on it.

Winning the lottery, for most people, is a once-in-a-lifetime event. You normally don’t get a second chance to win a big jackpot. That’s why it’s important to protect your lotto tickets from the start. It’s always a good idea to sign your tickets as soon as you buy them, just in case.In fact, some lottery corporations have now made it mandatory for tickets to be signed before cashing them. That rule even applies to the small secondary prizes. Why would they institute such a rule? It’s because lottery fraud is fairly common.

Consider this scenario: You go to the store with a bunch of old tickets. You ask the cashier to check them for you. One-by-one, the cashier checks your tickets, until she comes across a jackpot winner worth millions of dollars. Without you noticing, she switches the winning ticket with another ticket underneath the counter that she keeps there for just this type of purpose. Then she keeps the winning ticket and claims it for herself. This scenario wouldn’t be possible if the tickets were signed.