Mark Goodram and Jon-Ross Watson won £4 million pounds with a scratch-card and were planning on seeing the world and generally living it up...
But then Camelot became a teensy-weensy bit suspicious when it discovered neither of them had a bank account and the winning scratch-card had been bought with a debit-card.
About 30 years ago a pickpocket in Nottingham stole a wallet. The pickpocket decided to place a wager with Ladbrokes immediately after permanently borrowing the cards. He placed a bet of £57 (a Heinz bet) covering 6 horses. He paid by the victim's Access card, which was initially unsigned. All 6 horses came in winning over £27,000. The pickpocket came back later in the later to collect his winnings only to find that the winnings were paid directly onto the card used.
Five minutes later the card was used for another sequence of bets but was declined as the victim had realised that their wallet was stolen - they worked nights and didn't notice until they left home to buy some shopping. The pickpocket was caught the following day. The victim called Access to cancel the card was told of two transactions on the card, one a debit of £57, which was met with a short gasp, the second transaction was a credit of £27,149.84 was met with eh? can you repeat that? What? It seems that you have won sir...
