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Spain Breaks Up Sweepstakes Fraud RingNews Story
Madrid police broke up a fraud ring that cheated hundreds of Americans and Canadians out of $35 million through scams such as a lottery simulating a Spanish Christmas sweepstakes, officials said Tuesday.A total of 103 people - mostly Nigerians - were arrested during raids in and around Madrid, police said.The ring allegedly swindled 500 people, mostly residents of the United States and Canada, this year through different methods, police spokesman Jose Maria Seara told national radio.Fifty people
Oct 15, 2003, 3:32 am - Todd - Lottery News

Anybody Playing El Gordo This Year ?Reply
El Gordo- Very simple, more smaller player payouts will generate higher sales more revenues - just check out El Gordo's continuing rate of success popularity! Like sunshine, just spread it around Good Weekend Wishes Eddessa_Knight
Oct 2, 2015, 8:07 pm - eddessaknight - Lottery Discussion Forum

A reporter won the lottery and quit her job, live on air — only to find the payout was about $5,500News Story
Includes video report A Spanish television reporter appeared to celebrate and quit her job on live television after realizing she had a winning El Gordo lottery ticket. It was a decision for which she would later apologize. On Sunday, Valencia community journalist Natalia Escudero was covering Spain's annual Christmas lottery, called El Gordo (The Fat One), when she found out that she was also a winner. The state-run lottery is the world's richest draw, boasting 2.24 billion euros (a
Dec 26, 2019, 8:31 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery Post's guide to 2023 holiday raffles across the USAReply
Same years back, New York had a special holiday drawing, but discontinued it. Hi Todd, Is there a link to play the Pennsylvania Raffle ONLINE? Hope that many LP members hit these raffles. I'm planning on playing El Gordo for the first time. Has any LP members hit and for how much? Good Luck to everyone..
Nov 3, 2023, 10:37 pm - js1237 - Lottery News

One Massachusetts lottery ticket wins $758.7 million Powerball jackpotReply
with Lucklives One only has to L@@K at successful European models like El Gordo lottery to see how many players can participate in the lottery JP rewards All that is necessary is for the authorities to be willing to re-structure for more players to close the gap between their dreams and reality. Player Advocate Eddessa_Knight with Lucky Light
Aug 25, 2017, 3:24 am - eddessaknight - Lottery News

POWERBALL CREATES WORLD'S FIRST BILLION-DOLLAR JACKPOTReply
Thanks for the response. Although, the MSM keeps on equating El Gordo with the PB. Hopefully, Todd can send out FYI's to various media outlets to let them know the difference. Anyway, my concern with the PB, is not the change of algorithm by increasing the numbers to select (from 1-69) and the PB (01-25) but was on the increase on the play amount $2.00 to be in the game. The two dollar bill was never a hit, when it was originally instituted by the Feds. I think that it is much more exciting
Jan 10, 2016, 4:41 pm - sonnet - Lottery News

Bill would allow Texas Lottery winners to pay for anonymityReply
Shoot, Roman, the lotteries admit that those press conferences and publicity releases after a JP win are good for sales. I didn't bring that up b/c I sure didn't want to be the one to try to compare sales in states that allow anonymity and those that don't. It was brought up in another thread that other countries that allow anonymity don't suffer from a lack of sales, but since there's not the opposite to compare it too, it can't be proved or disproved. I don't know of any other lottery other th
Feb 22, 2015, 1:07 pm - mikeintexas - Lottery News

Powerball ticket worth $338 million sold in N.J.Reply
pickone4me, Not much interest here in your video, nor in mine, which provided answers to the question asked in this thread, who is pulling the strings? Funny how so many people of modest means apparently have no problem with the Koch brothers but hate Warren Buffet, partly because he supports higher taxes on the rich. http://truth-out.org/video/item/14409-koch-brothers-driving-keystone-xl-pipeline-from-canada-to-cut-out-venezuelan-oil BTW, an American El Gordo would produce thousands o
Mar 24, 2013, 11:13 pm - jimmy4164 - Lottery News

Spain's Christmas lottery is still "El Gordo"Reply
Hopefully all the lottery execs watch the YouTube video (above) of the drawing. Notice the lack of computers. There isn't a hint of deception or rigging. Notice the excitement of a traditional event in front of a live audience. You can actually feel the excitement when the Fat One number is drawn by the kids. The raffles are a good start, but the conspicuous absence of raffles in many states this year is a shame. Perhaps this is the opportunity for a national game -- not another Super Powe
Dec 18, 2009, 8:20 am - Todd - Lottery News

Winners share $3 billion in Spain's El Gordo lotteryReply
Hi All, Unless you are a Spanish citizen you cannot collect large El Gordo prizes but you can win the other prizes. It's in the small print. Don't you find it intriguing how often advertised offers are made in large bold print but qualifying or consumer guarantee conditions are in very small print ??? Happy New Year Wishes, EddessaKnight
Dec 27, 2008, 4:59 pm - eddessaknight - Lottery News