Digital lottery: Thai man challenges ‘Paotang’ app for unpaid winnings

[webfact]

 

A 52 year old man, Sarawuth Jangkina lodged a police complaint after purchasing 20 digital government lottery tickets via the ‘Paotang’ application, which won but were declared as non-winning by the system.

 

Sarawuth, who had previously won up to 31 tickets without issue, questioned whether the discrepancy was due to a system glitch or duplicate digital ticket sales.

 

Yesterday evening, Sarawuth, the president of the Buri Ram Highway Police Rescue Association, reported the incident at Nang Rong Police Station. The digital tickets numbered 283366, were for yesterday’s draw. Upon winning the last two digits, 66, on all 20 tickets, the system notified him of no winnings. It also showed that all tickets for this draw were sold out, raising concerns about the possibility of claiming his prize money.

 

Sarawuth explained that he typically purchases 200 to 300 lottery tickets per draw. He once bought a maximum of 210 tickets via the ‘Paotang’ app and had won up to 31 tickets, without any prior issue.

 

This time, he chose the numbers based on his car registration number, 3366, and the first two digits of his house number, resulting in 283366 for yesterday’s draw.

 

by Samantha Rose

Photo: Sanook

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2023-10-02

 

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[PETERTHEEATER]

Surely he knows by now that software prgrammes written for Government applications are untrustworthy?

[steven100]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Buri Ram Highway Police Rescue

he usually purchases somewhere between 200-300 tickets,   that's around 24,000baht ....   but then I seen his job and well'    that's self explanatory.

[retarius]

I've never won anything in a lottery. Maybe it is because I never enter them. 

[ukrules]

This story is wrong anyway, it had nothing to do with the official lottery app, from what I've been hearing now it's hit the larger TV news he bought the tickets from some third party website online.

 

There's a lot more to this story than meets the eye - the tickets were not sent for some reason and they said something about selling them to someone else when they didn't send them COD to the original guy who wanted them.....