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Louisiana Lottery Lightning Strikes… for Winner of $10,000

Edna Diane Campo of Addis poses with Lottery President Rose Hudson while claiming a $10,000 top prize.

A typical day of work at her Plaquemine store turned extraordinary when Edna Diane Campo of Addis, Louisiana, scratched the first $10,000 top-prize winning Zulu scratch-off ticket.
“I’m not really sure why I decided to play [...]

Cleaning Up: British Lottery Winners Reward Housekeeper, Give Her a New Car

Talk about generous. British lottery winners, Nigel Page, 43, and his partner Justine Laycock, 41 have rewarded a hard-working clearr with a $687,500 house and car, after her employers became the U.K.’s biggest lottery winners.

A hard-working cleaner has been rewarded with a £400,000 ($687,500) house and car after her employers became Britain’s biggest [...]

A Con to Watch Out For. Case Study in New York: Con Man is Conned by Cops; Caught After Forging $30,000 in Lottery Ticket Scam.

Here’s a scam you should watch for.
It happened last year and the con man was sentenced in December.
Queens, New York District Attorney Richard A. Brown and New York Lottery Director Gordon Medenica nabbed  a Far Rockaway man who defrauded several individuals around the state out of large sums of money by creating [...]

Smooth as Silk: Granny Takes Home $1,000,000 Scratch Game Top Prize in New York

Western New York’s newest millionaire thought she had made a mistake when she scratched off the winning space on New York Lottery’s new Smooth 7s instant game.
“I thought I must have scratched something wrong,” Debra Mauro said when  a check for $1 million was presented to her.
“I thought it just had to be [...]

“Hot” Winner in Virginia Scratches For $100,000

Harold Campbell of Bristol, Tennessee, didn’t get overly excited when he won $100,000 in the Virginia Lottery.
He didn’t need to. The store clerk was excited enough for both of them.
“He checked it and then he waved it around,” Campbell told Lottery officials as he claimed his prize. “I saw that [...]

$9.7 Million Prize Won by Connecticut Player; And a Very Happy New Year We’re Sure She is Having

For the past 23 years, Marilyn Citron of Mystic has played the same set of numbers in Connecticut’s Lotto game.
On New Years Day, it paid off. And she won $9.7 million..
As a long-time player, Citron generally checks the Friday winning Lottery numbers on Saturday morning, but due to the [...]

British Couple Hit for $88 Million Euro Millions Prize (Spanish Winner Also Hits, Wins Same Amount)

How would you react if your father and mother just won $88 million dollars playing EuroMillions?
“Whatever” was the reply.
Indeed.
When Nigel Page discovered he had won £56 million ($88 million in USD) on the lottery he couldn’t say a word while his stunned partner Justine Laycock, said: “Oh my God”.
But her 15-year-old daughter Georgia’s [...]

How to Lose a $15.2 Million Dollars Lottery Jackpot in 8 Years and 5 Easy Lessons

Thanks again to Philadelphia News columnist Howard Gensler for bringing this story to my attention, and now yours.
It’s the lamentable story of Lotto winner Michael Carroll, back on the “dole” in the U.K., after spending his  £9.7 million ($15.2 million, in U.S. dollars) in eight years.
How he did it is the stuff of which lotto [...]

Largest Prize in Texas Lottery History (Mega Millions Jackpot of $144 Million) Goes to Katy, Tx. Resident

The winner has finally come forward.
The winner of the Jan. 29 Mega Millions game worth $144 million…the largest winning lottery Texas Lottery history is Katy resident William R Kiefer.
Guess what? He wants no part of fame or fortune.
Call him humble? Or perhaps naive, but I like this guy’s attitude. He said he only has [...]

Confucius Lottery Ticket, Pissing Some People Off in China

Many of you don’t know that there is a lively lottery business in China, but it’s true and here is some of the evidence.
From an item in the China Daily, one of the country’s leading English language media outlets, I hear the story of…get this, a Confucius lottery ticket.
He must be turning over in his [...]

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