Woman bought her first ever lottery ticket and won

Not all lottery winners buy tickets every week, in fact some people have never played the lottery. But as we always hear ‘you have to be in it to win it’, which is exactly what a lucky woman from New York did. After needing to break a note to get change for the bus ride home, the woman bought her first ever lottery ticket and won the $5 million jackpot.

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Try and cash a fake lottery ticket?

We all dream of winning the lottery but I imagine most of us dream of buying a ticket or two and getting lucky. However a dim-witted woman from the US attempted to make a fake lottery ticket and attempted to cash it. It does make you wonder, how could somebody be so stupid as to try and cash a fake lottery ticket?

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EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle

At the beginning of last month we brought you the news that the EuroMillions pan-European lottery was changing for UK players. From the 7th of November ticket prices will rise from £1.50 to £2 with the extra 50p going towards the cost of entering the EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle which is guaranteed to award a £1 million prize to a lucky winner every single week.

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Store clerk stole winning lottery ticket

It is alleged that a store clerk in Texas, US has pocketed an elderly man’s $1 million winning lottery ticket after being asked to check the result on the processing computer. The store clerk stole the winning lottery ticket, telling the elderly man that hadn’t been lucky this time.

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Israeli lottery scamsters arrested

Seven people have been arrested in Israel for operating lottery scams and cheating elderly Americans out of millions of dollars. The Israeli lottery scammers were arrested following a joint investigation by the Israeli Police and the FBI, and are now facing extradition to face trial in the US.

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