Costa Rica not caving to U.S. gambling arrests
Costa Rica finds itself in the middle of the fight between U.S. authorities and the online gambling industry.
Think of Costa Rica and flashes of colorful birds, bright beaches and long hikes through the rain forest come to mind.
But several recent arrests and indictments have thrust the country into the spotlight for another, less savory reason: its cozy relationship with the online gambling industry. The industry is under fire from U.S. authorities, helping create the notion that this sma ...
Sep 25, 2006, 2:27 pm - - Lottery News forum
Brazil lottery cancels GTECH contract over Lottomatica acquisition
GTECH Holdings Corp., which has agreed to be bought by Italy's Lottomatica, said on Tuesday that its contract to provide lottery services to its largest customer, Brazil, will not be renewed.
The contract will expire on Aug. 13, the company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Its subsidiary, GTECH Brasil Ltda, has provided lottery services to the operator of Brazil's national lottery, Caixa Economica Federal, since 1997.
Revenue from the contract accounted ...
Aug 9, 2006, 9:39 am - - Lottery News forum
Granny's dream advice helps man win lottery
A Malaysian won 42,500 ringgit ($11,580) in a lottery by playing a four-digit number his dead grandmother had given him in a dream, a newspaper reported Saturday.
But luck soon ran out for mechanic Tan Tay Seck, who had bought two tickets with the 6064 combination he received from the apparition, the Star newspaper reported.
A thief stole the wallet with the second winning ticket and the lottery company refused to pay up without it.
Jul 4, 2006, 7:20 am - - Lottery News forum
Greek boy kidnapped from lottery winners
Teenage boy later escaped and returned to parents
The teenage son of a couple from Loutsa, east of Athens, Greece, who had won 280,000 euros in the Joker lottery escaped from his kidnappers yesterday hours after the two men abducted him and demanded the winnings from his parents.
Police found the 15-year-old wandering close to Athens International Airport yesterday afternoon. He told officers that he had been tied and blindfolded and left in a shack that he believes was located somewhere i ...
Jun 2, 2006, 11:18 am - - Lottery News forum
$8 million lottery dispute grips Spain
Like many factory workers around the world, they dreamed of winning the lottery and retiring early to enjoy their riches.
But when the numbers came up for the group of Spanish workmates, joy quickly turned to despair after the one who collected the prize denied that there had ever been a deal to share the money.
Now a judge in Barcelona must decide whether Antonio Lloreda Capillo is entitled to keep the 6 million (US$7.7 million) jackpot or must share it with 19 colleagues from the lotte ...
May 25, 2006, 8:18 pm - - Lottery News forum
565 lottery scammers arrested in global operation
Massive 14-month investigation spans the globe and brings more than 500 fraudsters to justice
More than 2.8 million people in the U.S. paid to obtain credit cards, claim sweepstakes winnings and get in on lucrative investments that turned out to be too good to be true, officials said Tuesday as they announced hundreds of arrests in an international investigation.
Authorities in five countries have arrested 565 people in fraud schemes that netted more than $1 billion. Many of those arreste ...
May 23, 2006, 6:41 pm - - Lottery News forum
'Lottery Man' uses Powerball fortune to help quake victims
The mayor looks at the shabby tents where earthquake victims have lived for the five months since their mountain village was destroyed.
Ihsan Khan, 47, is not like any other government official in Pakistan. He is a former Chicago resident and Northern Illinois University student, a one-time cab driver in Washington, D.C., and a citizen of both the U.S. and Pakistan. He is also a multimillion-dollar Powerball winner who was elected mayor of his hometown district in Pakistan two days before the ...
Mar 13, 2006, 7:03 am - - Lottery News forum
$13m Lotto winner having trouble sleeping
A New Zealand man is having trouble sleeping after belatedly finding out he won $13.1 million in a Lotto draw last week.
The ticket for the Big Wednesday first division prize, the third biggest win in New Zealand lotteries, was sold at a Four Square in Thames but remained unclaimed until the man, who wishes to remain anonymous, took it into a Lotto shop to get it checked.
I had absolutely no idea that I'd won anything until I went and got the ticket checked and when it went through the ...
Feb 15, 2006, 3:06 pm - - Lottery News forum
Woman Cashes Lottery Ticket From 1992
In a case of better late then never, an Australian woman has collected 100,000 Australian dollars (US$74,810) after cashing in a lottery ticket more than a decade after it was bought, an official said Friday.The woman, who asked not to be identified, collected her winnings this week after discovering the ticket lodged in a greeting card she found in her home, a spokesman for New South Wales state Gaming Minister Grant McBride said on condition of anonymity he said was departmental policy.The lot ...
Jan 20, 2006, 6:42 am - - Lottery News forum
Police called to convince German lottery winner
A lottery company had to call the police to convince an elderly German woman that she had hit the jackpot, police said on Tuesday. The woman had quite a sizeable win but was worried that she was having her leg pulled, said Joachim Gerhardt, a police inspector in the eastern German city of Gera. We were fortunately able to convince her so she could celebrate her good fortune, he said, adding that the woman would probably receive her winnings before Christmas.Media reports said the woman won a ...
Dec 21, 2005, 7:18 am - - Lottery News forum
