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Police called to convince German lottery winnerNews Story
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, 7:17 am - Lottery News

Elderly Lottery Winner Donates All Money To CharityNews Story
Local media reports that A 71-year-old man in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region who won a lottery jackpot of 5RMB million (US$620,000) has donated all of the money to charity.Surnamed Wang, the man is a retired worker with the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in Changji. My only wish to make use of the prize for myself is to buy a new radio, Wang was quoted by the Xinjiang Economic Daily as saying.On November 21, when Wang arrived at the lottery complex in Urumqi to receive his
Dec 2, 2005, 9:42 am - Lottery News

New Zealand lottery shop shortchanges winnerNews Story
A New Zealand lottery winner who double-checked his jackpot found he had been shortchanged thousands of dollars by a storeowner.TVNZ reports the owner of a Lotto shop in Kapiti Coast told the man he had won $642 New Zealand ($440 U.S.). It turns out when the lucky winner checked with the Lottery Commission the actual payoff on his $6 ticket was 50 times that amount, or about $20,000 U.S. dollars.The commission said Lotto shops are required to have computer screens visible to customers and to ret
Nov 11, 2005, 9:54 am - Lottery News

Scientific Games Awarded Two Contracts With German LotteryNews Story
Scientific Games announced Monday that its German subsidiary Scientific Games Honsel GmbH was awarded two contracts with Toto-Lotto Niedersachsen GmbH, the state lottery of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) based in Hanover - one to supply instant lottery tickets, and the other for distribution and consulting services.The two contracts begin March 1, 2006 and will run for five years, with options to extend for additional two-year increments. Scientific Games Honsel will handle the supply and distribu
Oct 11, 2005, 7:27 am - Lottery News

Korean lottery embroiled in scandalNews Story
The state-run lottery business in Korea is under investigation over two separate scandals involving charging high commission fees and suspicions that the operator manipulated winning averages to attract customers.Lawmakers demanded yesterday that the Board of Audit and Inspection make public the result of its inspection of the process of the commission rate has been determined.Since last year, the nation's audit agency has been investigating suspicions that the Korea Lottery System, the lottery
Sep 26, 2005, 7:27 am - Lottery News

French family win lottery twice with same numbersNews Story
In a feat that will have statisticians shaking their heads, a French family have twice won a national lottery using the same numbers each time.The lucky clan, who were not identified, picked up 1.5 million (US$1.84 million) in an August 3 lottery using the same selection of numbers they mark down every week, said Beatrice Vandersype, the wife of the tobacconist who sold the winning ticket.She added that those same numbers netted the family 900,000 French francs back in 1978, a sum equivalent
Aug 17, 2005, 8:48 pm - Lottery News

Spain detains 295 people in lottery scamNews Story
Spanish police have detained 295 West Africans on charges of attempting to swindle money from thousands of people by claiming they had won in a Nigerian lottery, radio reports said on Wednesday.Most of the suspects detained on Tuesday were Nigerians, while some came from Ghana. Police searched numerous addresses in the southern city of Malaga.At least two of the detainees were treated in hospital for broken bones after jumping out of a window when trying to escape. Those arrested included owners
Jul 20, 2005, 10:33 am - Lottery News

Broke German lottery winner turns to crimeNews Story
A German man who won more than a million Deutschmarks playing the lottery eight years ago admitted on Monday that he committed a string of burglaries after the cash trickled away.Prosecutors said the father-of-three decided in 2003 to live by theft, and broke into nearly 70 homes, bars and cars in search of cash. He also took jewellery, watches, cameras and even three pairs of deer antlers, and kept them in a room in his basement.Police near Meiningen, 150 kilometres east of Frankfurt, have retu
Jun 14, 2005, 10:03 am - Lottery News

Chinese man jailed for selling newborn to buy lottery ticketsNews Story
A father who sold his newborn son to raise money to buy lottery tickets was sentenced to 10 years in prison in China's latest baby-trafficking case, a newspaper reported Monday.The man, identified only by the family name Zhang, sold his baby boy for 9,000 yuan, the equivalent of about $1,350, because he had dreams of becoming rich overnight, the Beijing Daily Messenger reported. Evil father sold his own son to buy lottery tickets, the headline read.The Fugou County Court in central China's He
May 9, 2005, 10:57 am - Lottery News

Man finally wins lottery claim from washed-up ticketNews Story
A Spaniard has won a six-year court battle to claim the equivalent of about $50,000 US from a winning lottery ticket that went through a washing machine and came out in pieces.The organization running the lottery, the National Organization of Blind Spaniards, had refused to pay out on grounds the pieces might stem from a scam - a bunch of tickets washed intentionally and then snippets put together to look like a ticket with the winning five-digit number.But a Madrid court ruled Thursday that pla
Mar 18, 2005, 11:06 am - Lottery News