Lotto plot: Thai woman cries foul over ‘historic’ ticket trick

A Thai woman accused a lottery seller in the northern province of Kamphaengphet of tricking her into buying old lottery tickets from two months ago.

The complainant, Sommai Wongkhamma, shared the story with Channel 7 hoping to issue a warning to other lottery enthusiasts. She showed three old lottery tickets to the media. The prize announcement date on the tickets was May 2, 2024, but she bought them on July 8. So, the announcement date should have been July 16.

Sommai disclosed that she bought the tickets from a female seller aged about 70 years old from outside a gold shop at Kamphaengphet Shopping Centre. She walked past the shop, and the seller asked her to stop, saying she would have luck and should buy the tickets.

Sommai said she believed the lottery seller‘s words and decided to buy three tickets from her. She did not have any money so pawned her gold necklace at the gold shop before purchasing the tickets. She asked the seller to pick the numbers for her and never checked the tickets until the prize announcement day.

Sommai checked her tickets and found that they were the tickets for May, not July. She decided to share the story with the media, not to seek responsibility from the seller but to warn others about this fraud.

According to Sommai, she met the same seller selling tickets at the same spot. She approached the seller and secretly checked the date on all of the tickets at the shop. They were all new tickets on that day.

On that day, the seller read Sommai’s palm lines and told her that she would have luck, again. Sommai decided to tell the seller that she sold old lottery tickets to her last time but the seller denied the allegation.

The seller insisted on her innocence and dared Sommai to take an oath if she was innocent. The seller urged Sommai to show evidence that she bought the tickets from her shop.

Sommai failed to do so because she paid for the tickets in cash. If she used a mobile banking app to purchase the tickets, she may have evidence. She later gave up on the case, saying she did not want to take legal action against the seller over the 300 baht she paid for the old tickets.