New York Brothers Wait Six Years to Claim $5M Lottery Win

When people win a big lottery prize normally players make a claim for their winnings in the first few weeks for fear of losing their winning ticket. However, it has emerged that some lottery winners from American waited a lot longer than a few weeks to claim their prize. Brothers from New York waited six years in total to claim their $5 million lottery win but not because they lost their ticket but because they didn’t want this win to have a negative influence. Read more

Euromillions Winners Give Back to the Community

Since netting the UK’s biggest ever Euromillions jackpot of £161 million back in July 2011, Chris and Colin Weir have kept in the public eye – but luckily, for better reasons than a lot of other lottery winners (reference the ill-fated “lotto lout” Michael Carroll, who won and lost a £9.7 million fortune in less than eight years). The Weirs have instead impressed both the media and the general public with their overwhelming generosity to help charitable concerns. After the news that they have made yet another bequest, we take a look back at their previous donations: Read more

Shopkeeper Tried to Steal Grandmothers Winnings

A dishonest shopkeeper has this week been convicted of trying to claim a Grandmother’s life changing winnings as his own. 77 year old Maureen Holt whose 80 year old husband still works for a security firm took her lottery ticket into the Best One Convenience Store in Oldham but shopkeeper Farrakh Nizzar aged 30 checked the ticket and told her she was not a winner even through she had actually struck it lucky on the EuroMillions millionaire raffle. Read more

Powerball Winner Tapes Ticket to Chest

Matthew Packebush a United States Air Force veteran from Hutchinson has come forward to claim a Match 5 Powerball cash prize worth $1 million after taping the winning ticket to his chest for safe keeping. Matthews winning numbers were 07, 15, 20, 41, 44 and Powerball 10 and although he missed out on winning the Powerball jackpot by just one number he is thrilled to have won a life changing amount of money. Read more

Hunt is On to Find EuroMillions Winner

The hunt is on to find a Euromillions winner who has yet to come forward and claim their prize. The National Lottery are trying to locate the owner of the Millionaire Raffle ticket that was purchased for the draw that took place on Friday 18th May when eighteen lucky winners were made instant millionaires in just in one night. Organisers will not say exactly where the EuroMillions ticket was bought but they are urging people in the Stratford area to double check their numbers. Read more

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