Abstract: As a means to eliminate winning-lottery-ticket theft and to ensure the prizes are awarded to the legitimate winner, a Lottery Corporation, or any third party entity (hereinafter known as ‘The Issuer’), would provide a Personal Identification Card (PIC) to lottery participants. In coordination with a computerized database, the PIC would provide accurate identification of ticket owners and therefore the rightful recipients of any potential winnings. Such identification would effectively stop winning-lottery-ticket theft, misidentification of the rightful winner, money laundering associated with winning lottery tickets, etc.