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RACED TO THE AUTOMATED MACHINE: Facebook 'friend' cashes a Melbourne Cup winning ticket; incident serves as reminder for posting potentially harmful information on Facebook and other social media sites

4/11/2015

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Woman loses her $825 Melbourne Cup win after one of her Facebook 'friends' took a picture of the winning ticket and used the bar code to claim the cash

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A Melbourne cup punter learned about oversharing on social media the hard way after her winning ticket was stolen on Facebook.

Chantelle from Perth won a cool $825 by betting $20 on 100-to-1 shot Prince Of Penzance, who claimed victory in one of the biggest upsets in the race's history. Elated with her big win, she took to social media to post a proud selfie with the lucky ticket.

But Chantelle soon discovered she had pushed her luck after a 'friend' on the social networking site took a photo of the bar code to an automated machine and fleeced her winnings

A spokesperson for WA police told Daily Mail Australia said they were investigating the incident.
Chantelle told the radio station her $20 bet at Ascot racecourse in Perth was her first ever crack at gambling.

'I've never bet before so me and my two friends went along as you do and put some money on a few different races,'

'When Prince of Penzance's name came up we were pretty stoked, being amateurs at it. Naturally I took a selfie to show my friends.' 
Within 15 minutes of posting the image, Chantelle went to the TAB to collect her winnings-only to learn the thief had beat her to it.

'My fingers were covering some of the bar code, so someone had a pretty good game at filtering my picture and cutting out my bar code and putting it into an automated machine,' she said.

She said she it added insult to injury knowing the culprit was one of her Facebook 'friends', since her profile and the friends she tagged all have 'private' accounts.

'All of our profiles are private so it has to be someone who is well, we'd like to think of as our acquaintance', she said.

'I might need a bit of a Facebook cull now.' 

In the original post Chantelle held the TAB ticket next to her beaming face dressed in glamorous attire with the accompanying caption 'Winner winner Chicken dinner!!' 

But after getting word she had fallen victim to cyber theft, Chantelle posted a follow up message that was quite a different tone.   

'To the low life who is obviously my friend on Facebook and used my photo to claim our winnings. You're a massive d***. You ruined my day,' Chantelle wrote on Facebook.

Western Australian police have reportedly tracked down where the money was claimed and they believe they can locate the person responsible.

The incident serves as a reminder to anyone posting potentially harmful information on Facebook and other social media sites.
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The Perth punter won a cool $900 by betting on 100-to-1 shot Prince Of Penzance, pictured crossing the finishing line
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POOR Chantelle: We know how it feels, for in Fiji it was Aiyaz Khaiyum who secretly registered FFP domain name after stealing the name from its original owners
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Shannon
5/11/2015 02:24:58 am

Dear Editor,

I agree that one needs to be extremely conscious about what one posts on social media sites however, I am a little confused with the last two images in the post. To bring in Aiyz and Frank in the article is rather strange - is the article trying to say that Aiyaz and Frank are responsible for the loss of the ticket holders winnings OR is the article saying that Aiyaz and Frank are victims of social media scams and have been needlessly maligned all this time?

The titles/statements accompanying the two images also do not tie in with the main feature of the article because they have nothing to do with the Melbourne Cup or robbing a ticket holder of her winnings. Unless of course there is another side to this ticket saga that you will no doubt reveal to us in good time...

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Slow
5/11/2015 08:16:56 am

Even I can see the connection. The connection is with the low life, -stealing, thieving, shamelessly lying types of Bainimarama and Aiyaz - who are also pitiable IP thieves as the little blue bus Cartoon clearly shows the connection.

Simple Shannon - the winning ticket of the low lives like Aiyaz and Bainimarama - pitiable IP thieves - was the STOLEN good name of Fiji First Party - which they STOLE.

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Bahuki
5/11/2015 03:33:31 am

And that's why I keep certain things like this under wraps without becoming too narcissistic about it as most people are on social media with their trademark "selfie-shness."

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Chiku
5/11/2015 05:27:40 am

The Facebook "friend" who digitally stole a Person's Mebourne Cup winning ticket and cashed it is a low life scoundrel as is the person who stole the Fiji First party name and cashed on its appeal to the people of Fiji unscrupulously.

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Spot-on
5/11/2015 08:18:02 am

You are spot-on Chiku!

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