22-Nov-06. Clerks winning lots of scratch-and-win lotteries: CBC. Lethbridge Herald, A15.

CBC-TV’s “The National” reports one in ten Ontario scratch-and-win lottery prizes were claimed by a clerk. The CBC quotes internal lottery documents obtained by the “Fifth Estate” detailing how clerks could lightly scratch a ticket with a pin to determine if it was a winner. Toronto statistician Mohan Srivastava also found a way to decode which tickets were winners.