Hoosier Lottery is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly changing the odds of winning a scratch-off game and the prizes that were available.
Jeff Frazer, one of the guys who filed the lawsuit said that Hoosier Lottery suddenly changed the odds they had quoted him. He said that when he and his friends bought more than $50,000 worth of Cash Blast scratch-off tickets two years ago, they considered it an investment. They bought all tickets across the state at 10 bucks a piece.
Frazer said that the lottery advertised there were still seven top winning tickets out there, each is worth the prize of $250,000. So Frazer and his friends needed to hit just one of the seven winners to earn more than four times their investment.
However, Hoosier Lottery suddenly changed the odds. "Suddenly that all changed to where there was only one winner left," said Frazer.
Frazer and his friends filed a lawsuit claiming the lottery misrepresented the odds of winning the scratch-off game. The lawsuit now has class action status. This means that anybody who bought a ticket to the game at that specific period can be part of the case.
"To come back and say 'You put your money out but the prizes were gone. Sorry about your luck.' That's fraud," Frazer explained.
Lottery spokesman Andrew Reed said it does not comment on pending litigations.