Dated: August 13, 2012, 4:33 PM ET By Matt McCue | ESPN The Magazine
ESPN
FINDS BASKETBALL HALFTIME CONTESTS has BIG FRAUDS that GAME the SELECTION and CHEAT the ELIGIBILITY PROCESS
. . . . there have been big frauds in the Basketball Halftime Promotion. "We found one guy, a Russian immigrant who would travel from college gym to
college gym buying off selectors to get himself picked for the basketball-shooting contests," researched ESPN The Magazine. He won as much as $15,000 -- or
so he thought. The man was slick enough to befriend the event organizers and pay off the right people to be "randomly selected" but not smart enough to use
an alias. When his name showed up on two different claim forms, the prize providing Company knew it had a ringer.