Five-time lottery winner accused of taking ticket from group
It will be up to the courts to decide if a Calgary-area man's amazing run of lotto luck will continue.
Seguro Ndabene of Airdrie, just north of Calgary, has already won the lottery four times in the past five years including two wins of $1 million, another of $100,000 and a fourth prize of $50,000.
But his biggest win of all $17 million in a Super 7 draw back in January is being disputed.
Ndabene's claim as sole winner is being questioned by a man who alleges the winning ticket was part ...
Oct 28, 2009, 9:52 am - - Lottery News forum
China gets lottery fever after massive jackpot
Water-cooler talk across China has been awash with theories on how to spend a fortune after someone from Henan province won nearly 360 million yuan (US$52.7 million) on Thursday.
The prize is the country's biggest jackpot to date.
Despite the fact that the lucky winner has not yet stepped forward to claim the prize, many have an opinion on how much happiness it might buy.
It's incredible. That was the verdict of 75 percent of the 140,000 people taking part in an online survey yesterday ...
Oct 13, 2009, 10:18 am - - Lottery News forum
Bulgarian lottery repeat probed
The Bulgarian authorities have ordered an investigation after the same six numbers were drawn in two consecutive rounds of the national lottery.
The numbers 4, 15, 23, 24, 35 and 42 were chosen by a machine live on television on 6 and 10 September.
An official of the Bulgarian lottery said manipulation was impossible.
A mathematician said the chance of the same six numbers coming up twice in a row was one in four million. But he said coincidences do happen.
Minister of Physical Educa ...
Sep 16, 2009, 2:34 pm - - Lottery News forum
£5M U.K. National Lottery winner claims jackpot
The winner of a 5 million (US$8.2 million) National Lottery jackpot which had gone unclaimed for two weeks has come forward, operator Camelot said today.
Last week Camelot launched an appeal to find the lucky punter after the 4,908,817 top prize from Saturday August 29 was not claimed.
The ticket was bought in the Sheffield area.
We're delighted that the winner of this prize has now come forward and we hope that they will enjoy their win, a National Lottery spokeswoman said.
It wou ...
Sep 15, 2009, 12:11 pm - - Lottery News forum
Now broke, teen lottery winner blew through $3M
British teen lottery winner Callie Rogers, 22, blew through nearly all of a jackpot of over $3 million, spending a substantial amount of it on cocaine.
Rogers told local British media that her ex-boyfriend Nicky Lawson got her hooked on cocaine and that she spent 250,000 (about US$406,000) on the habit.
I was spending a fortune on cocaine, a nasty evil drug that tears your life apart, Rogers was quoted as saying. I'll be honest. About a quarter of a million pounds of my win has been waste ...
Sep 2, 2009, 6:15 pm - - Lottery News forum
Italian villager wins record $210M lottery jackpot
A resident of the castle-topped Tuscan village of Bagnone won more than 147 million (US$210.6 million) in Europe's biggest lottery jackpot, and seemed intent on trying to stay unknown.
The winner bought the ticket for 2 at a bar in the central Italian town of 2,000, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) northwest of Florence. The lucky inhabitant, who has yet to come forward, can choose to remain anonymous and has 90 days to claim the cash.
Local residents popped bottles of sparkling wine at the ...
Aug 25, 2009, 3:04 pm - - Lottery News forum
Not "mentally ready", lottery winner waits six months to claim jackpot
A 48-year-old small businessman from Newcastle, NSW [Australia], has waited six months for the right psychological moment to claim a $2 million (US$1.65 million) Lotto prize won in January.
I'm a bit of a crazy sort of bloke. I had the winning ticket in a tin in a safe spot so there was no rush, the winner told stunned NSW Lotteries officials today.
I actually thought about leaving it another couple of months. There was something about claiming that much money that I wasn't ready for, I ...
Aug 22, 2009, 8:26 pm - - Lottery News forum
Unemployed man wins £4.5M Ireland lottery jackpot
Plans to travel overseas: I ve never been abroad
Winner urged by financial expert to seek planning advice
Northern Ireland's new Lottery millionaire Seamus Duffy revealed that he was feeling lucky in the run up to hitting the 4.5 million (US$7.4 million) jackpot.
The unemployed father-of-six from Greysteel in Co Londonderry, said he had enjoyed a few less exciting Lottery wins in the weeks before the big one.
But despite his winning streak, he never expected to scoop such a fortune. ...
Aug 12, 2009, 10:48 am - - Lottery News forum
Italy Is a 'Mad House' for Lottery
Neophytes do it. Financially pinched town councils do it. Even people who usually shun gambling as a cunning ruse for the state to raise taxes do it.
With a record 119 million (US$177 million) jackpot at stake in Italy's state lottery, millions have been gripped by lotto fever.
It's become a bit of a mad house, said Paolo Valli, owner of the neighborhood Bar del Pino in southern Rome, where the number of wagers has tripled in the past month for the SuperEnalotto, which has not registered ...
Aug 7, 2009, 8:31 am - - Lottery News forum
Lotto machine rejects winning ticket
In South Africa, a Durban woman has asked Lotto operator Gidani to investigate its scanning machines after her winning ticket was declared invalid.
Wanda Bromehead, said she had checked the newspaper and knew she had won R88 in the May 16 draw.
But she was surprised when the teller behind the counter ran her ticket through the scanner and the screen displayed the words No Winner .
The teller was asked to scan the ticket three more times, and the message was the same.
Doubting herself ...
Jul 20, 2009, 1:01 pm - - Lottery News forum
