Winners share $3 billion in Spain's El Gordo lottery
Economic woes eased for thousands in Spain on Monday as the Christmas lottery billed among the world's richest dished out some 2.32 billion (US$3.23 billion) in prizes.
The top prize of the lottery dubbed El Gordo (The Fat One) went to holders of tickets bearing the number 32365 which appears on 1,950 tickets, each winning 300,000 (US$418,000). Thousands of others cashed in on runner-up prizes.
The top number was sung out at just after noon Monday by pupils of Madrid's Saint Ildefonso Scho ...
Dec 23, 2008, 9:06 am - - Lottery News forum
Tiny village hits El Gordo lottery jackpot
A remote Spanish farming village today became several million dollars richer after each of its 25 inhabitants won a share of the top prize in the world's biggest lottery, El Gordo.
The church bells rang in Rebollo de Duero, in the central Spanish province of Soria, as the handful of farming families celebrated their good fortune.
Soria is one of western Europe's most sparsely inhabited regions, with many villages abandoned completely by their inhabitants over the past half century.
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Dec 23, 2006, 8:54 pm - - Lottery News forum
Spain goes bullistic as big, fat lottery faces bald truth
The Bald One has left the Fat One. Now everyone's talking.
For the past eight years, Spaniards have been cajoled into buying lottery tickets in El Gordo (the Fat One) the world's richest annual lottery draw by advertisements featuring El Calvo (the Bald One), a silent, mysterious figure showering good fortune at random upon Spaniards as a symbol of the Fat One's beneficence.
But the Bald One, it seems, became too famous for his own good.
Despite being one of the best-known faces on ...
Dec 20, 2006, 12:36 pm - - Lottery News forum
Californians targeted by Spanish lottery scam
Imagine receiving a letter in the mail that you're the big winner of a lottery in Spain. If it sounds too good to be true, that's probably because it is.This scam is known as the El Gordo lottery, meaning fat one . But the only ones fattening their wallets are the criminals behind it.It's a letter that seemed too good to be true to News 8's assistant news director Dean Elwood. $600,000 ... who wouldn't want that, he said.And according to this notice claiming to be from the El Gordo Spani ...
Nov 30, 2005, 1:21 pm - - Lottery News forum
'El Gordo' Lottery Scams Target Elderly
Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging Nora Dowd Eisenhower today warned older Pennsylvanians to beware of an international lottery scam that adopts the name of Spain's largest lottery prize, El Gordo. The actual El Gordo drawing was conducted on Dec. 22 and awarded more than $2.4 billion in prizes to Spanish citizens who had purchased tickets. El Gordo is a bona-fide holiday season lottery for Spanish citizens, but the e-mails and letters being received by consumers in the United States telling them ...
Jan 4, 2005, 1:21 pm - - Lottery News forum
El Gordo lottery drawing awards $2.42 billion in prizes
Winning El Gordo lottery ticket sold in a town called 'Luck'A town called Luck lived up to its name on Wednesday, turning up the winning ticket in Spain's Christmas lottery, featuring one of the world's biggest prizes known as El Gordo (The Fat One).The ticket, which scooped a prize of 390 million (US$521.9 million), was sold at a lottery office called The Golden Witch (La Bruixa D'Or) in the town of Sort, which in the Catalan language means luck .Beas de Segura, a village of 8,000 inhabit ...
Dec 23, 2004, 9:04 am - - Lottery News forum
Lottery Scheme Now Targeting Tennessee
Letters purporting to be from the El Gordo Sweepstakes Lottery Company, S.L. in Madrid, Sprain have appeared in some Tennessee mailboxes, informing consumers that they have won hundreds of thousands of dollars.Consumers are told in the letter that Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice and are instructed to contact a claims agent at an overseas telephone number. As with many schemes of this nature, consumers are asked to provide their ...
Dec 8, 2004, 1:00 pm - - Lottery News forum
July El Gordo Sales End in One Day
A last-minute flurry of excitement is expected at El Gordo Online, where sales end Tuesday night (June 29) at midnight for the world's biggest lottery draw to be held July 3.The El Gordo lottery, which is run by the government of Spain, is world-renowned for two massive drawings that take place in July and around Christmas every year. Although the July drawing will dispense $171 million (USD) to almost 400,000 winners, the Christmas draw is by far the biggest, with over $2 billion in payouts to ...
Jun 28, 2004, 2:07 pm - - Lottery News forum
Spain Holds $2.2B Christmas Lottery
The world's richest lottery spread $2.2 billion in Christmas cheer Monday throughout Spain, including to a village whose name means luck.Spaniards spent the morning glued to television sets and radios for the latest edition of a sweepstakes that goes back to 1812 and marks the official start of Spain's holiday season.For three hours, school children picked small, wooden balls out of two golden tumblers -- one for 5-digit lottery numbers and another for the corresponding prize.Known as El Gordo, ...
Dec 23, 2003, 5:26 am - - Lottery News forum
Christmas El Gordo Online Lottery Sales End at Midnight
A last-minute flurry of excitement is expected at El Gordo Online, where sales end at midnight tonight for the world's biggest lottery draw.The El Gordo lottery, which is run by the government of Spain, is world-renowned for its massive drawing that happens around Christmas every year. El Gordo has one other large draw held in July, but the Christmas draw is by far the biggest.This year's Christmas drawing will award more than US$2 billion to almost 2 million winners.One of the most exciting as ...
Dec 18, 2003, 4:19 am - - Lottery News forum
