A Perth woman named Chantelle was so happy that her horse won the Melbourne Cup, Australia's most prestigious horse race, that she posted a selfie of herself holding the winning ticket on Facebook. When she went to collect her winnings of (AUD)$900, she was informed that her money had already been collected. As it turns out, the picture she posted revealed the winning ticket's barcode. Someone then used barcode in the picture to claim the prize from an automatic machine. "Someone had a pretty good game at filtering my picture and cutting out my barcode and putting it into an automated machine," Chantelle said. The theft was made all the worse after Chantelle realised the culprit must be one of her Facebook friends. "To the low life who is obviously my friend on Facebook and used my photo to claim our winnings. You're a massive dick. You ruined my day," she later posted to Facebook. Source (Sydney Morning Herald): http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/woman-who-posted-selfie-with-barcode-on-900-melbourne-cup-ticket-had-winnings-stolen-20151104-gkqsxp.html

Woman's prize stolen via Facebook.

By killcomic
November 5, 2015 in Off Topic

Go to solution Solved by Oberon.Smite, November 5, 2015

Lmao it's only her fault. What kind of idiot gives away 900 dollars like that.

Posted November 7, 2015

That also doesn't change that your comment regarding MY comment is equally useless. So ?! It's a discussion board, a lot of the discussions are not "useful".

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