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Texas Woman Scammed by 'Friend' in 'Facebook Lottery'News Story
Includes video report A woman in Texas says she was the victim of a well-worn scam, but what was unique in her case was that the fraudulent pitch came to her through a Facebook friend and was allegedly endorsed by President Obama. Kris White admits that she shouldn't have been fooled last week by the Facebook message saying she had won $250,000 in a Facebook Powerball lottery, ABC News affiliate KTRK reported. She said she was shown documents that wrote United States with lowercase letters
May 23, 2014, 2:05 pm - Lottery News

EuroMillions lottery winners to build unusual homeNews Story
Once you've bought your 100,000 Jaguar XKR-S, paid off Dad's mortgage and given your best friend more than 1 million, how do you start wasting spending the rest of a 45 million lottery win? The answer for Matt and Cassey Topham, a former decorator and supermarket worker from Nottingham who scooped the EuroMillions jackpot last year, is to erect a futuristic mansion on a suburban avenue with all the trappings of a James Bond villain's lair. The couple on Thursday submitted a planning applic
Apr 20, 2013, 1:49 pm - Lottery News

A Nevada Lottery? The Line Forms in CaliforniaNews Story
On a recent afternoon, lines of customers snaked to the door of the Primm Valley Lotto Store, a bustling hut just over the border in California. The parking lot was packed with cars sporting Nevada license plates. The hut, on a dead-end street paved for the sole purpose of crossing that border, holds two important distinctions. It is the lottery ticket vendor closest to Las Vegas, 45 miles to the northeast. And it sells more lottery tickets than any other vendor in California, according to th
Apr 26, 2009, 12:36 pm - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery 'whips up' Indiana Jones scratch gameNews Story
New game coincides with release of Indiana Jones movie later this month When the latest Indiana Jones movie makes its debut later this month, lottery players in New Mexico will be able to continue the movie characters' quest for fortune by picking up the latest scratch game. New Mexico lottery players will have a much safer archaeological adventure than the movie characters however, as they can dig for gold with just a spare quarter, and signing the back of the card is all it takes to keep
May 8, 2008, 3:11 pm - Lottery News

Lottery number strategies subject of newspaper investigationNews Story
The odds are long. The drawings are random. And the house keeps a much greater share of wagers than other forms of gambling.In sum: The lottery cannot be beaten. There is no system that can improve your chances of winning the lottery, period, says Mike Orkin, a California mathematician who has written extensively about gambling odds.Yet the quest for an ever-elusive winning lottery strategy is alive and well and for sale.On a quiet, dead-end street in Denville stands the headquarters of Doubl
Dec 6, 2005, 1:26 am - Lottery News

NY Post chides rival paper over lottery errorNews Story
The New York Post appears to be enjoying the mess that its long-time rival, The New York Daily News, created when it printed erroneous lottery numbers, and misled thousands of readers into thinking they won big bucks.The Post's editorial was scathing, including a call by the paper for the Daily News to award all the prize money that they initially reported people won. New York Post criticizes rival(by New York Daily News)New York's hometown newspaper scamsters tried to buy their way out of big t
Mar 22, 2005, 8:32 am - Lottery News

Californians react to Mega Millions decisionNews Story
Odds are, people who play the state's SuperLotto will also play Mega Millions, and those who don't will consider giving it a shot.An unscientific survey Wednesday found that most people say they won't be able resist plunking down a buck or two to play Mega Millions, even if it's only one time.Mega Millions is the new lotto game coming to California this year. The game offers jackpots that range from $200 million to $300 million, with tickets for only a buck. Mega Millions officials say a $400 mi
Feb 10, 2005, 10:03 am - Lottery News

Trying to Sell California's LotteryNews Story
The lyric California, here we come, right back where we started from is part of:a) A song heard by millions of viewers when the series The O.C. appears on Fox Broadcasting.b) A song that perfectly captures the bizarre circumstances of what may well be the strangest advertising account review ever to take place in the West.c) Both of the above.(The answer is, of course, c, and those who chose it must read daily newspapers enough to recognize a column-opening gambit when they see one.)The re
Dec 12, 2003, 5:27 am - Lottery News