Two Guys Bought a Lottery Ticket with a Stolen Debit Card and Won $5.3 Million . . . but Won't Get Any Money
These guys might be the luckiest AND unluckiest criminals in the world: Two idiots in England named Jon Watson and Mark Goodram stole someone's debit card info in 2019 and used it to buy five scratch-off lottery tickets.
Jon's 34, Mark's 38, and they both have long rap sheets. They didn't have the actual debit card. Mark just had the number and expiration date written on his hand. But a convenience store cashier ran it anyway.
Three of the tickets they bought were losers and one hit for 10 pounds, or about 13 bucks. But the fifth ticket hit for FOUR MILLION pounds, or around $5.3 MILLION.
Jon called lottery headquarters . . . told them Mark bought the winning ticket . . . and said they were splitting the money. Then Mark got on the phone, but hit a snag when they needed a BANK ACCOUNT number to transfer the money to him.
He said he didn't have a bank account. And that raised a big red flag, because the lottery people knew the ticket was purchased with a DEBIT card.
They refused to pay him out until they looked into it. So Jon and Mark decided to go to the NEWSPAPERS and claim they were being cheated out of the money . . . which put a target on their back, and cops arrested them for fraud.
A judge just sentenced them to 18 months in prison. And because the purchase was fraudulent, they don't get any of the money.
(Here are Mark and Jon living it up when they thought they were rich.)
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A Man Robbed a Bank . . . Then Made a Deposit Into His Own Account at the ATM Outside?
This is sort of like robbing a house . . . and then leaving your business card in the screen door on the way out.
A 44-year-old man in Delaware named McRoberts Williams . . . yes McRoberts is apparently his first name . . . robbed a Wells Fargo bank in Wilmington on Sunday.
He walked up to the bank teller, and handed her a note that said, quote, "This is a robbery, I need $150." She gave it to him, and he ran out . . . but he didn't go far.
He stopped at the ATM outside and used it to deposit the money into his account. (???) And THEN he ran off. The police later found him behind a nearby shopping center.
He reportedly told police that he traveled to Delaware "by riding on the exterior of a cargo train," and that his "mind is currently being controlled by a third party [through] an implant located somewhere in his body." (So whoever is controlling his brain isn't so bright.)
McRoberts was charged with second-degree robbery and is currently being held on a $6,000 cash bond. (Here's his mugshot.)
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Photo: The Delaware State Police
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