Tuesday, August 24, 2010

2 Months Left To Claim $12,000,000 Lottery Prize


A winning SuperLotto PLUS lottery ticket, worth $12m, was purchased about 4 months in a Barstow, CA shop. The winner only has 180 days to claim the large prize. Hopefully the lucky winner will come forward. Here are the details as reported by the California Lottery.

Only Two months Left for $12 Million Lottery Ticket Sold in Barstow

SACRAMENTO – It’s been four months since a lucky California Lottery player purchased a SuperLotto Plus® jackpot-winning ticket in Barstow, and Lottery officials are still waiting for the owner or owners of that ticket to come forward. The prize is worth $12 million to the big winner – but only for two more months.

The winning ticket was purchased for the April 24 draw at Barstow Station Ice Cream, which located at 1611 East Main Street in Barstow. The lucky retailer received a bonus of one-half percent, or $60,000, for selling the jackpot-winning ticket. The winning numbers are 25, 27, 39, 6, 15 and the Mega number is 17.

The California Lottery would like to remind the winner to sign the back of the ticket, keep the ticket in a safe place and contact Lottery officials or visit their local Lottery District Office as soon as possible. Winners have 180 days from the date of the draw to claim prizes. This ticket expires October 21, 2010. Read the whole story...

Friday, August 20, 2010

The New 25 Year Old Millionaire Hid the Winning Lottery Ticket in her Bra

Hey, it's a great spot to hide something like a winning lottery ticket. She's a young new Canadian Millionaire! When the clerk told her she won 1 million dollars - she grabbed the ticket and stuffed it in her bra. Here's the story from CNews. Can you tell she's excited to be new lottery winner?

Million-dollar lottery winner hid ticket in her bra

WINNIPEG -- Alicia Jongstra received her big cheque from Western Canada Lottery Corporation officials at the Delta Hotel in downtown Winnipeg after striking it rich as the sole winner of a $1-million Maxmillions prize in the June 18 draw.

The 24-year-old Winnipegger, who works in a group home with disabled young adults, said she found out she was a millionaire when she stopped for gas at the North Main Co-op on her way to work and checked her ticket.

“I heard the ‘woo-hoo’ and thought I’d won 10 bucks but the lady beside me could see the screen and told me I’d won a million,” Jongstra. “I immediately took the ticket and stuffed it down my bra so nobody could take it away from me.”

Jongstra, who turns 25 next week, said she plans to use her new cash to get laser eye surgery and to build a home in the country near Stony Mountain where she grew up. Read the whole story...




Wednesday, August 18, 2010

He Won $5,000 a Month for Life!

It may not sound like a ton, but I would certainly take an extra $60,000 a year. This man won $5,000 per month for the rest of his life, an he's only 27. He won the lottery prize on the Connecticut Lottery "Win for Life" scratch card series. Here's the story from the Stamford Advocate.

Stamford man a lifetime lottery winner


STAMFORD -- If you're going to win a contest called Win For Life, it doesn't hurt to start collecting the winnings before turning 30.

Andre Bryant, 27, recently became the 50th winner in the Connecticut Lottery Corp.'s Win For Life series. Bryant will receive $5,000 a month for the rest of his life, which translates to $3,426 a month after taxes.

"I feel blessed. It really hasn't hit me yet," said Bryant, who lives in Stamford.

Bryant said he went to Richmond Hill Mini Market to purchase lotto tickets before heading to Cut Masters Barbershop, also on Richmond Hill Avenue. He bought three Win For Life and five Mega Money game cards.

"I just happened to go in and get some tickets to see what my luck would bring," said Bryant, who works at Whole Foods in Darien, where he does maintenance.

After scratching off one of the Win for Life tickets, revealing the letters W and I, Bryant said he screamed because he knew he had won.

Diane Patterson, director of communication with Connecticut Lottery Corp. in Rocky Hill, described winning the Win For Life ticket as "a life-altering experience."

"Win For Life is really unique because it's wholly determined by a person's longevity. Most games if you win the top prize, that's it," Patterson said.

Patterson said the Win For Life series paid $500 a week when it started in 1998. Over time, the prize structure for the series has changed. Patterson said the minimum payout for the Win For Life program is $1 million to each winner.

"If someone passes that one million dollars, which isn't to hard to do, we'll continue to make payments," Patterson said.

Bryant said he has plans for what he will do with the money.

"As of right now, I want to save, save, save. Eventually, I'd like to buy a house for my mother and take care of her," Bryant said. Read the full story...



Monday, August 16, 2010

A Lucky Mistake Results in $250,000 Mega Millions Lottery Win

he misprinted a man's ticket and decided to just buy the misprint for herself. Turns out - she made the right decision. This lucky market employee cashed in a $250,000 Mega Millions winning lottery ticket as a result. Here's the story from Online Casino Reports.


Accidental Lottery Winner

A recent mistake made by a store clerk in Lexington, Ohio, USA, bagged her a Mega Millions lottery prize of $250,000.

Naomi Mauller, aged 51, who works at the “Woolfe’s Huff and Puff” mini mart made the error when she was printing a local customer’s Mega Millions lottery ticket. He asked for a Kicker added to his game, but she forgot to include it. She printed him another ticket with the same numbers and the Kicker, and then bought the unwanted ticket for herself. When the lottery draw was made, Naomi and the customer scooped a quarter of a million dollars each!
A Lucky Mistake

“You can’t cancel the Mega Millions ticket.” Naomi explained, “So I thought, what the heck, I’ll buy it. That was a mistake I’ll never forget.”

Well, mistake it may have been but she’s certainly the richer for it. She realized she’d won only thanks to her boss, who called her at home to ask if she knew anything about two tickets with identical numbers which had come up trumps on the lottery draw. When she checked her numbers - 12, 17, 21, 23 and 30 - she realized she was a winner. Read the whole story...

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Canadian Lottery Scam Artist Jailed for 9 Years

Watch out for the scam artists. They are espeically targeting the elderly. They tell folks they won large lottery jackpots and that they have to pay certain fees before collecting their lottery prize. This lottery scam artist was ripping off folks in the US while operating out of Canada. He's been put away for 9 years. Here's the story as reported by The Lottery Post.

Canadian gets 9 years for U.S. lottery scam

A Vancouver man was sentenced to nine years in prison Monday for running a lottery scam in the United States that defrauded dozens of elderly victims of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Henry Anekwu, 43, was convicted in April of 10 counts of mail fraud and six counts of wire fraud, all of which were centered around a telemarketing operation that told victims they had won a lottery, but needed to pay taxes or other fees up front to claim their winnings. Individual victims paid as much as $60,000 into the scheme, which operated for about five years until 2003. Many of the 79 victims in the scam lost their homes as a result. Read the whole story...

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Sneaky Fiery $500s Scratch Off Tickets in Michigan


I think this lottery game is a bit deceptive to the player. To win the $500 lottery prize you have to scratch off a red 500 wish no "$" symbol. There have been a few accounts of lottery players scratching and revealing a red "$500" and thinking they won. But to no avail, that is not a winner. This guys was deceived as reported by mlive.com

Is the Michigan Lottery 'deceptive'?

DURAND, Michigan — Don Bridges received a fiery $500 lottery ticket last week, scratched if off and found a red $500.

“Get a Red ‘500’, win $500 automatically!” the lottery ticket read.


Bridges, 80, and his wife, Adeline, 67, tried to cash the ticket in with a local retailer only to be told they did not have a winning ticket.

To automatically win $500, a winning Fiery $500s ticket comes with a red “500” without the dollar sign symbol, said Michigan Lottery Director of Public Relations Andi Brancato.

The tickets — which went on sale June 21 — did not have any misprints and its rules are “quite clear,” she said. Read the whole article...

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

She Bought her Lucky Ticket from the Luck Store


This story is nice because this nice couple won a $50,000 lottery prize on a $5 scratch ticket and got to go on their first real vacation. What I think is crazy is the same store has sold winning lottery tickets 11 times. If I'm ever in Farmington, NM that's where I'm picking up my tickets. I may even buy one of those awesome Kiss scratch tickets they have. Here's the story as reported by the Farmington, New Mexico Daily Times.

Farmington lottery winner goes on first 'real' vacation

FARMINGTON — The best five dollar bill is one that turns into a $50,000 bill.

Farmington's April Lopez found Monday evening that her $5 "Crossword Doubler" scratcher was a winning lottery ticket. She bought the ticket at Giant Station No. 4 at 531 E. Broadway, where 11 other winning tickets previously have been sold. She was picking up barbecue goods for her family's dinner that night when she picked up the winning ticket.

"I told her not to get ahead of herself. I didn't want her to get too excited," said her husband Jose Lopez. April said she was jumping and screaming at the news of her winnings and hopped in the car that same night to catch her prize.

"They broke into a big smile, and they were as sweet as can be," said New Mexico Lottery Spokeswoman Linda Hamlin. "I meet winners every single day, and it's amazing that they all have a different story."

The couple's first splurge was on their family's first "real" vacation. They took their three children to Albuquerque this week to tour amusement parks and the city's zoo.

"They were definitely thinking of their children first," Hamlin said.

Afterward, the couple will fly, just the two of them, to Las Vegas. They recently celebrated a wedding anniversary and would like to spend some extra time together. And then they plan on paying off the bills.

Granted, the Lopez family, and other winners, are not the only benefactors of this program. Read the whole story...

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Lucky Poweball Winner Comes into Bad Luck with his Audi R8


The poor guy had just purchased one of the most fantastic cars in the world, an Audi R8. He purchased it just under a year after he won a $25,000,000 Powerball jackpot last year. The Audi R8 cost $140,000 and went up in flames while he was driving it a week after he made the purchase. It was thought to be just 1 or 2 in the USA. Luckily, no one was hurt. Here's the story from SeattlePi:

Good luck, bad luck: Lottery winner's rare car goes up in flames

DANBURY, Conn. -- Fire officials are investigating the cause of a car fire on the Merritt Parkway that destroyed a rare Audi R8 belonging to a Connecticut Powerball winner.

According to reports, Rahul Patel, of Newington, was driving the car, only a week old, northbound on the parkway around 9 a.m., when he looked up in the rearview mirror and saw smoke.

As the car's engine is in the rear, Patel pulled over to see if there was something wrong with the vehicle. After stepping out of the car, he reportedly saw flames coming out of the engine.

No one was hurt in the incident, but the car was a complete loss. Fire officials said the car is only one of two of its kind in the United States and that the car was valued at $140,000, with options. The list price for the vehicle on the Audi website is $114,000.

Losing such a rare car might be considered bad luck but, almost exactly a year ago, Patel had luck of a different sort when he won a $25 million Powerball jackpot. He won the money on June 29, 2009, from a $1 ticket. Read the whole story...

Friday, August 6, 2010

Georgia State Lottery Profits are up in 2010

The Georgia State Lottery revenues are up about $11.7m. The state provides a portion of each dollar spent to the state pre-kindergarten and HOPE, a state college scholarship, programs. Here's the article reported by The Lottery Post.

Georgia Lottery profits up in 2010

Another good year for the Georgia Lottery meant more money for the state's pre-kindergarten and HOPE college scholarship programs, but it isn't enough to keep state officials from worrying about HOPE's future.

The Georgia Lottery Corp. announced Wednesday that profits increased again during the 2010 fiscal year — providing a dozen consecutive years of growth.

As a result, the lottery increased its payments to the popular pre-k and HOPE programs. During the 2010 fiscal year, which ended June 30, the lottery transferred about $883.9 million — an increase of about $11.7 million, or 1.4 percent, over the previous year.

"In spite of this gray, darkish economy, we are very grateful that Georgians continue to respond to what we put out there," Georgia Lottery President and CEO Margaret DeFrancisco said in an interview. "We feel very fortunate that we are able to do what we've done."

While the Georgia Lottery is considered one of the most successful in the country, it is unable to keep pace with the rapid growth and cost of the education programs it was created to support.

Lottery revenue didn't generate enough money for HOPE during the 2010 fiscal year, and state officials for the first time in nearly a decade tapped into a $1 billion reserve fund. The reserves are projected to drop to about $373 million by the end of the 2012 fiscal year, according to the Georgia Student Finance Commission, which oversees HOPE.

The commission is scheduled to meet with members from the state House and Senate education committees Aug. 2 to discuss the program's finances and possible changes. Commission leaders have recommended lawmakers amend the program during the next legislative session, warning the program could run out of money if long-term changes aren't made. Read the whole story...

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

First Mega Millions Jackpot Winning Ticket Sold in North Carolina

A retired couple from North Carolina hit a $12,000,000 Mega Millions lottery jackpot on May 28th. The plan to keep playing! Cheers to kind elderly couple! Keep on keepin' on! Here's the story from MyFox8.

Retired Greensboro Couple Wins $12 Million Mega-Millions Jackpot

RALEIGH, N.C. - A retired Greensboro man and his wife won $12 million in the May 28 drawing of the Mega Millions lottery, making them the first winners from North Carolina.

Mike and Faye Manheim officially claimed the jackpot Wednesday afternoon in Raleigh. Read the whole story...

Monday, August 2, 2010

Lottery Pool Winners Give Millions to Employer


A UK lottery pool gives their £3.9 million lottery jackpot prize to employer. Talk about job security! Here's the story from Casino Affiliate Program.


Winners Invest Lottery Cash in Employer

Lotto winners give £3.9 million to keep company going through recession

March 6, 2009 (InfoPowa News) -- Recessionary climates can produce extraordinary events, and the U.K. media are currently carrying an interesting report of a 13-member lottery syndicate that struck it lucky ... and decided to use their winnings to ensure their employer's survival, along with their jobs.

The syndicate won £3.9 million on the lottery, but instead of dividing up the prize they decided unanimously to present the cash to company owner Andy Whitaker (44), who has managed to keep the family-run motor repair firm going despite a terrible time for the car industry.

The employees will pledge most of their winnings into the firm
ASK Rewinds in Accrington, Lancashire, becoming investors in their own future in the process.

Whitaker, his wife and a fellow director are members of the winning syndicate, and have already pledged to plough their share of the lottery windfall back into the firm to help safeguard the jobs of their 18 workers.

Whitaker told local reporters: "Everybody is obviously really delighted to scoop such a big win but it's also great feeling that a lot of the lads have got the firm so close to their hearts and want to be a part of it. Read the whole story...