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Australian man wins lotto jackpot twiceNews Story
A Melbourne, Australia, man is busy counting more than $46 million after he won the top prize in Oz Lotto twice. The St Albans man had forgotten he had two entries in Tuesday's $70 million draw, each marked with the same numbers. I'm speechless. I can't believe it, he told officials, who alerted him to his double bounty. Both tickets had the same marked numbers which he'd been playing for 30 years. I play every week. I have always marked my entries, but I have never chosen the numb
May 6, 2019, 7:53 am - Lottery News

Lottery-scamming brothers avoid asset seizures by transferring property to their motherNews Story
By Jason Clayworth Two brothers who were behind the largest lottery scam in U.S. history and owe more than $2.3 million in unpaid restitution and court fees recently transferred several properties they owned to their mother. The transfers from Eddie and Tommy Tipton have raised further questions about why four states Oklahoma, Kansas, Wisconsin and Colorado have yet to seize their properties. It has been about two years since the brothers admitted their role in a scam that hijacked lott
Apr 29, 2019, 9:50 pm - Lottery News

Canada lotteries changing biggest games to computerized drawingsNews Story
Random number generators will be used for Lotto Max and Lotto 649 after May 14 Starting mid-May, players of Canada's two largest multi-province lottery games will no longer be able to rely on real lottery ball drawings to choose the winning numbers. Instead, the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation will retire the lottery balls that generate the winning numbers for Lotto Max and Lotto 649 on May 14, moving to a computer program called a random number generator. They're part of our histo
Apr 24, 2019, 6:19 pm - Lottery News

Colorado man who unwittingly split a $4.8M jackpot with scammer is fighting the Colorado LotteryNews Story
In 2005, three people won a Colorado Lotto jackpot worth $4.8 million, and Boulder's Amir Massihzadeh held one set of winning numbers. He accepted his prize of $568,990 after splitting the pot and paying taxes and moved on with life. Ten years later, Colorado Bureau of Investigation agents visited Massihzadeh to interview him about his winning number because they were investigating a criminal scheme to rig lotteries. They suspected the other two ticket-holders who split the prize with Mass
Apr 15, 2019, 10:14 am - Lottery News

Man rescues lotto ticket from garbage, wins $25,000 a year for lifeNews Story
A Michigan man will be making $25,000 a year for life after rescuing his lotto ticket from the garbage. Jeff Heinig rescued his Lucky for Life ticket from the trash after he initially tossed it thinking it was worthless. Heinig, who is from the town of Harrison, purchased the ticket last Wednesday. He told the state's lotto officials that he got his dates mixed up and checked the website before the drawing had even happened. I was back on the website Friday, and the Lucky For Life
Apr 12, 2019, 11:55 am - Lottery News

Canada's Lotto Max to increase jackpot, add drawing in MayNews Story
Canadians will soon have a chance to win a bigger lottery jackpot and twice as often. Come May 2019, the Lotto Max jackpot cap is increasing to $70 million, up from the current $60 million. Also, beginning May 11, 2019, Canadians will be able to play Lotto Max every Tuesday, in addition to the existing Friday draw. The Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) said the second draw every week means lottery players will see jackpots grow more quickly than ever before. The WCLC also sai
Apr 3, 2019, 8:35 am - Lottery News

Ireland Lotto winner had bank card declined hours before discovering €1m winNews Story
All the hardship this last while, Odhr n Doherty said with tears streaming down his face as he pulled his brother Shane into a firm embrace outside the National Lottery headquarters on Dublin's Abbey Street on Tuesday afternoon. The 23-year-old farmer from Raphoe Co Donegal had just arrived in Dublin in a white Hummer to collect the 1 million (US$1.12 million) prize he had won on the Lotto Plus 1 draw on Saturday night. As he picked up the check he recalled how less than 72 hours earlier
Apr 3, 2019, 8:10 am - Lottery News

Washington Lotto ticket generated with two identical quick picksNews Story
Mitch Tracy beat the odds with a recent lottery ticket, but it didn't turn him into a millionaire. Tracy purchased the $1 ticket at a lottery machine in Spokane, Wash., and opted to let the Quick Pick feature choose his numbers. As he was walking away, he realized he'd been given the same numbers twice. You're supposed to get two lines for a buck, and both lines were the same numbers, Tracy said. Officials say the odds of that happening are about one in 14 million, which is double t
Apr 1, 2019, 8:44 am - Lottery News

Australian man wins $23 million lotto draw — twiceNews Story
A Melbourne, Australia, man is $46.6 million richer after winning the lotto not once, but twice. The blue-collar worker from St Albans in the city's north-west was stunned after he was informed that two of the three winning entries for the $70 million Oz Lotto prize on Tuesday night were registered to him. The man had marked both entries with the same numbers, which he has been doing for three decades. When we reached out to the division one winner from Melbourne to let him know he'd w
Mar 27, 2019, 8:16 am - Lottery News

Florida man claims $15.5M Lotto jackpotNews Story
An Estero man is taking home millions in Florida Lotto winnings, according to the Florida Lottery. Niranjan Patel, 41, claimed the $15.5 million jackpot from the drawing held Feb. 6 at the Florida Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee, a press release states. Patel chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $10,539,204.33, according to the release. The jackpot-winning Florida Lotto Quick Pick ticket was purchased from a Publix at 2465 Glades Circle in Weston, Florid
Feb 19, 2019, 7:03 am - Lottery News