Wrong lottery ticket was a winner

Just how much must your luck be in for you to be given the wrong lottery ticket only to discover that it was a big winner? Well a man from Baltimore, US went into a petrol station to buy a lottery scratch card and was given the wrong one by mistake but before he noticed he had scratched of the panels to find that his wrong lottery ticket was a winner. It was a huge $50,000 winning lottery ticket in fact.

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South Africans are being targeted more and more by lottery scammers

As the 2010 FIFA World Cup draws closer South Africans are being targeted more and more by lottery scammers. South Africans are receiving bogus lottery win emails in the run up to next years World Cup and a special police task force has been created to attempt to crack down on these scams.

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Lottery rollover jackpots across the world keep getting bigger

This week has seen the Powerball, Mega Millions, EuroMillions and Italy’s Super Enalotto rollover, making the total value of these lottery jackpots over £414 million! Lottery rollover jackpots across the world keep getting bigger with the US Powerball lottery heading the field closely followed by Italy’s record breaking Super Enalotto.

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Sicilian mayor bought lottery tickets to raise funds for his town

The mayor of a small Sicilian town is attempting to help ease it’s cash-flow problems by purchasing tickets for Italy’s SuperEnalotto state lottery. The SuperEnalotto jackpot hasn’t been won in weeks, and it has climbed to an unprecedented €116 million which is roughly £98m, so the Sicilian mayor bought lottery tickets to raise funds for his town.

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Florida pensioner who lost his winning lottery ticket

Here at Online-Lotto we bring you stories of unlucky people losing their prizes for one reason or another but you can’t help but feel sorry for the Florida pensioner who lost his winning lottery ticket on the way to claim what would have been a life-changing $500,000 prize.

Last Wednesday Louis Tolentino, a 69-year-old pensioner from Wellington, Florida went to his local Gold Coast Liquor store as usual to buy Gold Rush scratch off tickets, which are run by Florida Lottery who also operate Powerball. He was amazed when he scratched off the panels and saw a five with five zeroes following it, he rushed to the store owner to confirm he was reading it correctly as he was overcome with excitement. The store owner scanned the ticket and sure enough, it was a $500,000 winning lottery ticket!

Tolentino quickly stashed the ticket in his back pocket, jumped in his car and headed for the Florida Lottery office. The unlucky lottery winner had difficulty finding the office so he stopped at a convenience store to ask for directions. As he furthered his journey he realized that his winning lottery ticket was missing. He panicked, and then injured his hands while furiously searching under the driver seat of his car. He hurriedly rushed back to the store where he bought the ticket but there was no sign of it anywhere. Was the winning ticket stolen? Did it fall out his back pocket? The unfortunate pensioner says he has no idea. ‘The worst part about it’ says Tolentino is that in his excitement he forgot to sign the winning ticket meaning that anyone who finds it can turn it in and claim the half a million dollar prize.

Don’t be like the Florida pensioner who lost his winning lottery ticket, let this be a warning to you. Sign you tickets. Or better still play online lotto where there’s no chance of losing your tickets.

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