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Disputed $50M lottery jackpot partially paid outNews Story
Includes video report A disputed $50 million lottery win is set to enter civil court as the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation pays out about $31 million of the prize to its 19 original claimants, leaving the remainder to be fought over in court. Nineteen employees of a Toronto-area Bell call centre originally claimed the $50 million Lotto Max prize from Dec. 31, only to have their claim disputed by several other people who said they should have been on the list, as well. For the pa
Feb 15, 2011, 2:38 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Con artists target N.J. seniors in lottery scamNews Story
The first call came in December. How are you? How's your day? We have a wonderful thing to tell you, a 65-year-old Ocean County woman said of her first telephone conversation with the Jamaican-sounding strangers. They said I had won an award, the woman said. (The prizes) ranged from $1.5 million to over $5.5 million. The callers told her she had to send them money to purchase stamps so that her prize could be delivered. She sent the money, but then she got more phone calls with vario
Nov 7, 2010, 9:55 am - Todd - Lottery News

$116M Georgia Powerball winner claims prizeReply
[quote]We now have a President and Congress that repeatedly go against the will of the people. All polls show that the American people are overwhelmingly opposed to virtually everything our President and Congress are doing. They know we are against it but they defy us and go ahead and do it anyway.[/quote] This sounds like Deja Vu from the previous administration, yet I didn't hear any tea party'ers screaming and yelling and calling people communists then, or protesting record spending, recor
Oct 15, 2010, 6:23 am - Jyna Log - Lottery News

Elderly man makes the right call on lottery scamNews Story
In the Star-Telegram Watchdog column, Dave Lieber recounts how an 86-year-old man did the right thing by not getting hooked in by lottery scammers again. For more than a year, George Kahak has followed my request that he call me before investing any more money in get-rich schemes. The 86-year-old former chief pilot for American Airlines is a compulsive scam victim. He's lost tens of thousands of dollars in dozens of scams. The other day, he called to say that he won $500,000 in a lottery a
Dec 14, 2009, 8:19 am - Todd - Lottery News

Pick 4 - The 4 out of 7 TechniqueReply
Some new observations on doubles: The two numbers paring up with the doubles are 8 instead of 10 numbers, because we are not including tripples. They only come in once a month if at all. So for an example, if we select number 1, and number 2 to pair up with doubles 00,11,22,33,44,55,66,77,88,99 we get; 0012 1112 --- discard from play 2212 --- discard from play 3312 4412 5512 6612 7712 8812 9912 Ending up with 8 numbers to play instead of 10. The two numbers to pa
Dec 6, 2008, 10:27 pm - diamondpalace - Lottery Systems Forum

Employee hacks into online poker siteNews Story
A leading Internet poker site said Friday that a hacker exploited a security flaw to gain an insurmountable edge in high-stakes, no-limit Texas holdem tournaments the ability to see his opponents' hole cards. The cheater, whose illegitimate winnings were estimated at between $400,000 and $700,000 by one victim, was an employee of AbsolutePoker.com who hacked the system to show that it could be done, a spokesman for the company anonymously told a reporter. This is literally a geek trying
Oct 25, 2007, 9:43 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery scams hard to resist for someNews Story
What if you got home today and found a letter in your mailbox telling you that you won thousands of dollars in a Canadian lottery? It sounds like great news, but it's actually a scam that's costing Americans millions of dollars every year. Too Good To Be True This is the scam we get the most calls and e-mails about. And it's very convincing because the letter comes with a check that looks real. So a Pennsylvania TV news crew went to Canada to find out how the scam works and where you
Jun 27, 2007, 10:46 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Setting a trust for anonymity: how does it work?Reply
Sorry about the delay in replying... a couple of days ago I had posted a couple of links to some news stories (about what generally happens to large jackpot lottery winners) in my message and my account was suspended on suspicion of spamming... Anyhow, thanks to Todd and his gracefulness, I'm online again... Thank you so much, joshuacloack, for taking the time to contribute here your wisdom... it is very much appreciated. The problem with setting two trusts, IMHO, with the second one being a
Apr 16, 2007, 12:44 pm - JRCa - Lottery Discussion Forum

Corrected Astrology Numbers for 8/23/06Reply
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2006 with 130 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Saturn, Mercury, Venus and Uranus. The evening stars are Neptune, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto. Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo include: poet and novelist Edgar Lee Masters in 1869; Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Bataan, in World War II, in 1883; humorist Will Cuppy in 1884; cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller (creator of Nancy ) in 190
Aug 23, 2006, 7:27 pm - Jani Norman - Mystical Forum

Illinois Lottery sells tickets for instant games after top prizes are goneNews Story
At $30 a ticket, the Illinois Lottery's World Class Millions instant game was not only one of its priciest offerings it was also potentially one of the most lucrative for players. WIN UP TO $15,000,000! THE HIGHEST INSTANT PAYOUT IN ILLINOIS LOTTERY HISTORY, shouted a banner across the magenta and silver ticket. But for the last five weeks the game was on sale this year, none of the three $15 million prizes remained. Yet players purchased an estimated 26,000 tickets during that time, spen
Apr 23, 2018, 7:34 am - Todd - Lottery News