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U.K. Lottery operator wants to create global super-lotteryNews Story
Camelot will launch the first ever global lottery draw if it wins the right to run Britain's game for another 10 years with players from all over the world generating jackpots of up to half a billion pounds (nearly one billion dollars). The international lotto would dwarf the existing Euro Millions weekly game, in which nine countries have joined together to achieve astonishing top prizes of 125 million. The new game would span the globe with some 50 countries already voicing interest i
Feb 9, 2007, 7:27 pm - Lottery News

Spain nabs con artists in major lottery scamNews Story
Spanish police have arrested 43 Africans on suspicion of running a fraud ring in which people were duped into paying money as a handling charge to collect fake lottery winnings. (Editor's note: See http://www.usamega.com/lottery-scams.asp for a description of this type of lottery scam.) Authorities estimate the men 42 Nigerians and one Senegalese bilked people out of more than 2 million (US$2.6 million) altogether. They were arrested Tuesday in Seville, and another five Nigerians were
Feb 7, 2007, 12:45 pm - Lottery News

Antigua gets favorable WTO gambling ruling over U.S.News Story
The United States has suffered a new setback in a four-year-old legal battle with Antigua and Barbuda over U.S. restrictions on Internet gambling, a U.S. trade official said on Thursday. At issue is an April 2005 World Trade Organization ruling against U.S. prohibitions on online horse race betting. Since then, the U.S. Congress has passed additional legislation to ban certain financial transactions related to gambling over the Internet. Gretchen Hamel, a spokesman for the U.S. Trade Repre
Jan 27, 2007, 8:46 am - Lottery News

Tiny village hits El Gordo lottery jackpotNews Story
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. I d
Dec 23, 2006, 8:54 pm - Lottery News

Spain goes bullistic as big, fat lottery faces bald truthNews Story
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

Germany debates online gamblingNews Story
Premiers from the 16 German states were unable to reach unanimous agreement Wednesday on proposed laws to protect state gambling monopolies by banning online gambling in the country. The heads of the individual German states met to discuss the ban, which would have to be approved by the federal parliament. Three German states Bavaria, Saxony and Hesse have already introduced state laws. Most of the German states run lucrative monopolistic lotteries and are keen to protect these revenues,
Dec 14, 2006, 3:39 pm - Lottery News

Australian lottery sale proposal 'a gamble'News Story
A NSW opposition plan to sell NSW Lotteries to help pay for drought projects would amount to a gamble on the security of the state's water resources, Premier Morris Iemma says. Opposition Leader Peter Debnam wants to sell NSW Lotteries, from which the government earned $381 million in 2005/06, to help pay for a $1 billion drought-proofing water fund. It's expected a coalition government would earn around $800 million from the sale, details of which Mr Debnam will finalise after consulting
Dec 11, 2006, 7:45 am - Lottery News

Despite dire predictions, Net gambling not changed by new U.S. lawNews Story
John Brokopp Courier-News When President George W. Bush signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in October, many reports gave the impression it sounded like the death knell for the multibillion-dollar Web-based gambling industry. On the contrary, all it did was strictly regulate the process by which funds are transferred from users of the sites to the offshore companies which own and operate them. The practice itself wasn't declared illegal. Reputable foreign companies wh
Dec 8, 2006, 10:56 am - Lottery News

Wife Orders Hit on Russian Lottery WinnerNews Story
An angry Russian woman from the small town in the Caucasus hired a criminal to kill her ex-husband who had won a million rubles in a lottery, the News.ru website reported Friday. 48-year-old retired military officer Alexei Rykov had bought just one lottery ticket as a present for his own birthday and the ticket proved to be lucky the man won one million rubles (about $37,000). He used the money to buy an apartment (until then the family was renting) and a car. After a while his wife Irin
Nov 3, 2006, 8:54 am - Lottery News

Male nurse wins record German lottery jackpotNews Story
The biggest jackpot in the history of Germany's national lottery went to a male nurse. A 41-year-old male hospital nurse who is the father of three children, organizers said Tuesday, three days after the winning number was drawn. The man had phoned the West Lotto company from the hospital in the western Westphalia region during the morning, but asked that his name not be published. In the city of Muenster, West Lotto spokesman Elmar Bamfaste said the winner of the 37.7 million euro (US$47
Oct 12, 2006, 4:24 pm - Lottery News