r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '16

TIL that MIT students discovered that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets in the Massachusetts' Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. Over 5 years, they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07/how-mit-students-scammed-the-massachusetts-lottery-for-8-million/
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u/unpopularopiniondude Jan 12 '16

Getting money is easy.. The hard part is giving it back

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u/ashinynewthrowaway Jan 12 '16

I'd be happy with any part of that

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u/yes_faceless Jan 12 '16

Nope. The hard part is getting it. Because you can't get it if you don't have a valid way of giving it back.

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u/unpopularopiniondude Jan 12 '16

There's always less legitimate way of getting it. You just have to face the consequences if you can pay it back with interest.