'It ended up being a counterfeit ticket, it's what the industry calls a cut-and-paste,' said Jay Ledbetter, director of security at the Mississippi Lottery Corporation after the men were caught.
Police were contacted around 9:20 a.m. after staff quickly identified the scratch-off ticket as fake. Officials said it was far from convincing.
"It was visibly a fraud but we also scanned the front side and back side," he added, stressing there are multiple ways to test a ticket's legitimacy, including barcode and serial number checks.
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