Topic: The PCSO Lotto is shrouded in doubt due to the picture of the winner shown - page 5. (Read 596 times)

And if I'm not mistaken, the Senate or Congress has involved themselves again in this mess and wanted to have a investigation and see if there is a real winner or not?

I also read as well that like every week there is a winner, and so that's why many people aroses suspicions that something might be going on inside the lottery in the Philippines that it begs the question as whether there is really a winner, or just people inside colluding for the numbers or deliberately having someone win from within. If this is the case, then shame on the people that held the position in the PCSO.

Hilarious!
Yeah, that's the right image of that post of PCSO. Perfect. They don't really need to do this. People will still keep on betting on Lotto thinking they have a chance to be millionaires someday. Perhaps they could start another TV series like the one in the 90's where lotto winners' stories are being portrayed in the film. Maybe that will help boost their audience a lot more.
But this kind of photo editing won't help at all, they are just ruining their image and maybe it will lessen the number of lotto gamblers in our country. It's an obvious scam but it's done legally. Then, they use their charity to cover it all up. They will just say despite all of that they are still helping poor Filipino people who are looking for help and running to them.
Again, the sad part is that it is legal which takes out the chance of other organizations to determine if they are fair or not.
Me and my neighbors are talking about this two days ago because of the hype of the big jackpot that is on the line. One neighbor told me a story of his brother who bets every time there's a draw. There's one time he didn't bet using his pet numbers and all of that number came out. He felt regret and thought about it for a year or more, he said. I told my neighbor that if his brother made that bet that day, those numbers wouldn't come out. There's a system and the system knows which combinations don't have any bets.

Reason why the face of the lottery winner didn't show could be at the request of the winner, perhaps for security reasons, because it's not everybody that needs the publicity of their faces on social media. This is not disputing the argument whether the picture is fake, because corrupt officials can go to any length to scam the public, another observation is that when checks of this nature are presented to winners, the check is printed to look bigger so the public can read every details on it. Because of the corruption in governments people no longer have trust in them, this case in discussion might be a genuine win, but we'll never know for sure.

You can look at the picture in two different ways. It's possible that the editing is just to keep the winner's identity a secret to protect their privacy. However, some are worried that the manipulation could be a sign of fraudulent or corrupt behavior by the PCSO. If you want to know more about what's going on, you should study a lot or read news from reliable sources. To build processes that people can trust, they need to be open and honest.

It sure looks edited but maybe for the security purpose of the winner? The only edited part is the face which isn't bad at all, I believe it's the best thing to do, both sides are winners here and they used the winner to shill their business too, it's good.

Some lottery winners don't care about exposure that's why they boldly decide to come out to the open, but I can't do the same because countries security varies, I bet that if I do the same many bad figures will come for me, I would rather just keep my mouth shut.

Either legit or not always make the best decision for your own sake, it's better to keep your winnings as secret instead of showing the world.

Yup, this was talked about for pretty long in our office earlier. Some were defending PCSO because they went ahead and did this to "defend" whoever won it, which is kind of reasonable I guess. But then again some argued that it was shady in the first place since there were winners, or multiple ones, almost every month. I don't really know how the math works here since I don't have the numbers to check but as an average joe I guess it's a reasonable suspicion.

Not to mention there are probably better ways to tell someone to hide their face instead of needing to edit it out. Well, it is the PH, Am not surprised with the amount of stuff going on in here in the first place.

Make sense mate. Why do they have to edit a picture if they could do that, editing a picture is like tampering the only proof. Honestly, i don't even think that the picture was taken on that place, it looks like they just grab a picture of the winner and brought to that office. It does look bad and it has become viral in the social media now that PCOS is gathering a lot of criticism. This is a big hit of their credibility, IIRC, PCSO was close for many days during the time of Pres. Duterte, but now with this new controversy, I don't know what would happen to the people behind this "SCAM".


Though it's not proven yet but I believe they are trying to defaud the public. 43 million pesos is a huge money, they can divide it to themselves, whoever doing this, easy millions for them.

Idk the story behind the picture. If it's the real winner and they want to hide their identity to protect themselves, they can wear hoodie or something. Even if they don't have any with them when they went to claim the prize, I bet anyone from the office of the lottery have at least one hoodie. Or they should have spare clothing knowing that winners will get their prizes there, and it's not something new to them. Why bother spending hours on editing a photo when they can just look or ask people around them if they have hoodie, hat, shades, and mask.

It's a huge winning prize and editing the photo that is so obvious will make it unreliable to people. That's why people always have doubts about the lottery winners because of these kind of poor thinking.

This was their answer when they were called to attend a senate hearing. they are just trying to protect the identity of the winner but they've done a poor job on editing. There's only one way to find out if they are telling the truth, get the information of the winner and visit on where she is leaving now.

If PCSO can prove they didn't do anything wrong, then this allegation will be solve. However, maybe next time they'll do a better job with editing as this one really put their business at risk, imagine if people will stop spending money for lottery, their collections which was reported as Billions of pesos per month will be reduce.

Honest mistake that are too costly, we should call it that way. ^{(if they prove it)}

It looks fake and edited. The disguise mask looks so fake and it could actually be a disguise by the officials of the casino either trying claim the reward themselves or trying to misled their customers.

When people are being rewarded this way the cheque's are usually bigger than this to be bold enough for people to see. The picture really looks suspicious and there are too many red flags to raise suspension but it is difficult to come to conclusion that it's not real.

Winning such a huge amount and disclosing the identity of the winner can be dangerous as the winner can be easily targeted by criminals so it is sometimes safer not to disclose the winner's identity but it should look real and  not be an edited image.


100% Fake, there is definitely something wrong somewhere about the picture.

I think if they cheat or there are corrupt officials, of course making a real photo with a fake person is easier than hiring an unprofessional editing service like this picture, even small children know that it is an edited photo that looks not real, it doesn't need someone who understands. and professional about photos, after all if the prize is big why not do the manipulation cleanly, unlike showing pictures full of jokes.

I, who just saw it at a glance, already knew that it was an edited photo that was not talented and professional and it was even very easy to guess, maybe this is a reasonable reason for me because I never trust lottery games directly or offline. It's more fun to play or buy lottery online. Online casinos, especially big casinos that have a name, certainly don't have any strange manipulations carried out, whereas if you play offline games like this, it seems like you can manipulate them.

Moreover, if there are officials who are corrupt, it will clearly harm users and other people, it is difficult for me to believe that something like this can be trusted again in the next day, I will definitely look for a trusted lottery place 

We can barley know what looks real or fake these days as the advancement of technology has made anything to be possible. This might just be another method for the government to steal more public funds and convert them into their personal money. nobody can question them about this as there's literally no prove if theft. And it clearly shows from this picture that the funds were won in a state lottery. The leaders are too corrupt to be trusted when it comes to such amount and it they were to give it for real to an actual winner, the person would want to stay hidden and not show up on the Internet maybe for security reasons.

Or maybe he appeared without any protection in her face so the Team edited Her face putting mask
and maybe sunglass to Hide her Identity because we can question the credibility of every lottery gambling
because the winner never shown their faces and tells their personality so who will say the truth here?

So for me this is a legit winner claiming but just edited the photo for the release in public so he will
not be the target of any criminal activities .

With all the tools available you can edit almost anything and make it real, or manipulate it like this one, but it has been proven that there are winners, and the PCSO the governing body of the Philippine lotto has addressed all allegations in the past, I'm sure they can address this one so the lottery will not lose its reputation, the picture may have been edited but we all know how different lottery in the Philippines is and the culture of winning a lottery, the winners don't want their identity to expose unlike in other countries when it's ok to do so.

I still don't get why the people aren't mad about this stuff because this is as blatant they can be with how they stole the public funds, they do it this way and this has been going on for a long time in that government agency but no one bats an eye because the people that are in power are all making money out of this too so it's not in their interest that this is going to be investigated and the people behind this scheme being litigated, I just hope that more and more people are getting aware of this because when things are this bad, imagine what's happening to the stuff that's happening behind the scenes. This is a trend right now in the Philippines, this is how the corrupt officials and politicians get their stolen money now because you can opt out to not reveal your identity, the tracks are much more concealed for these corrupt people.

We have seen how people that won huge amount of money like this that do not care about the public knowing the amount they won, this kind of winning/winners are celebrated in a way that the public will not have doubts. This picture is not looking real at all. It looks fake. I am expecting a cheque that is even bigger than what we are seeing on the picture. The cheque is not even clear.

This picture below with the woman holding a check is the winner of "P43 million lotto 6/42 jackpot prize on Wednesday, Jan. 17.".

That's almost $800k if converted in USD.



As we can see in the picture, it appears to be just an edited version, casting doubt on whether there was a genuine winner or if corrupt officials inside are attempting to claim the victory using that picture as evidence.

What's your thought about that picture, is it real or edicted?

How about in your area? How reputable are your state-sponsored casinos?

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Source : https://twitter.com/inquirerdotnet/status/1747758509381574663/photo/1