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'El Gordo' Lottery Scams Target ElderlyNews Story
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

El Gordo lottery drawing awards $2.42 billion in prizesNews Story
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

GTECH lands 5-year deal with Finland lotteryNews Story
Lottery systems operator Gtech Holdings Corp. reported Monday that it signed a five year deal with the Finnish national lottery.Veikkaus Oy, the operator of the Finnish national lottery, awarded the contract to Gtech to replace the country's existing lottery system with new software and terminals as well as provide ongoing services for the systems. The contract has automatic provisions for two, two-year extensions which would extend the contract until 2013.The company expects to generate $38 mil
Dec 21, 2004, 9:59 am - Lottery News

Tennessee lottery surplus has state officials scramblingNews Story
Pre-K, increased scholarship amounts, other school programs are possibilitiesTennesseans are playing the lottery, but not as many students as expected are taking advantage of college scholarships and state officials have not decided what to do with the surplus.The scholarship program is projected to have $115 million in excess this year and another $79 million next budget year.State Sen. Steve Cohen, who sponsored the lottery, wants the money to pay for pre-kindergarten classes and to increase s
Dec 15, 2004, 9:33 am - Lottery News

Lottery Scheme Now Targeting TennesseeNews Story
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

One ticket scoops $30 million Oregon MegabucksNews Story
The jackpot is a record in Oregon's Megabucks gameOne lucky person won the $30 million jackpot Monday in the Oregon Lottery's Megabucks game, the largest single Lottery award in state history.The winning ticket had not been claimed at press time, nor was it known where the ticket was purchased.The jackpot eclipsed the previous high of $23 million won in July 1991. The last Megabucks jackpot was won April 12, when a $15.6 million prize was awarded. The Oregon Lottery has featured the Megabucks ga
Nov 16, 2004, 8:46 am - Lottery News

Ex-lottery official charged in $1 million payout scamNews Story
Man told 2 others where a winning ticket would be sold, prosecutors say.A former security officer for the Hoosier Lottery is accused of conspiring with two other men to rig a $1 million scratch-off game.Prosecutors say William C. Foreman told two men that a winning ticket in the $2,000,000 Bonus Spectacular game had been sent to a store in Cross Plains, Ind.One of those men then went to that store and bought its entire supply of the game's $20 tickets -- about $700 worth, according to court do
Nov 10, 2004, 1:19 pm - Lottery News

Oregon Megabucks reaches record $25.5 millionNews Story
When people walk through the door of Center Market looking for a few essentials these days, those essentials often include an Oregon Lottery ticket -- thanks to a record Megabucks jackpot. Usually, they come in for something else and buy the tickets as well, said Soni Singh, manager of the store near Center and 17th streets NE. Today, they're just coming in for the tickets. And they are buying them in bunches, Singh said. On Wednesday, one customer spent $125 on tickets; another spent $325. La
Nov 4, 2004, 12:38 pm - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery transfers $51 million for scholarshipsNews Story
The Tennessee Lottery transferred $51.3 million Friday to fund college scholarships, bringing the total amount generated for education to more than $174 million, officials said.So far, some 47,000 Tennessee students have received lottery-funded awards during the program's first semester of funding. Another $2 million has been transferred to fund after-school programs for younger students, as dictated by the legislation approving the games. The excitement about this transfer is matched only by th
Oct 18, 2004, 7:52 am - Lottery News

Texas Seniors Targeted by Lottery ScamNews Story
The so called foreign lottery scam is again targeting senior citizens in Texas, and former Governor Ann Richards and First Mother and former First Lady Barbara Bush have joined forces to produce radio and TV commercials urging Texans to 'just hang up.'The way the scam usually works is a senior will get an official sounding telephone call from somebody claiming that the senior has won a foreign lottery, usually the non existent 'Canadian Lottery.'Dalton Bessette, a senior who lost $240,000 to t
Oct 5, 2004, 11:52 am - Lottery News