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January 15th, 2010 | Author: admin
Are you one of those people that play the same lottery numbers every week? How’s that going for you? Still haven’t won the jackpot? Well, you know that playing the same lottery numbers every week doesn’t actually increase your odds of winning. I know you’ll probably keep on doing it anyway.
If you are one of those people that play the same lottery numbers every week and you’ve done it for years, you probably won’t want to read the rest of this story.
Today, Loto Quebec announced the winner of a $20 million Lotto Max prize. His name is Michel Villeneuve and he won it in the January 8, 2010 draw. He’s been playing the same numbers since the Lotto Max game started. However, Lotto Max is a fairly new game; it started just under four months ago.
How does that make you feel about playing the same lottery numbers for years? Michel Villeneuve does it for less than four months and wins a prize of $20 million! Oh well, keep on playing… Your day will come eventually.
Michel Villeneuve told Loto Quebec that he would be sharing the $20 million prize with family.
With Thanks to: http://lotterywinnerbios.blogspot.com
January 13th, 2010 | Author: admin
Seems I am not the only person to win lotto twice – my two million-dollar wins are at www.lottery-and-lotto.com – Ken Olsen did it too!
The article below on Ken’s win is reproduced with the kind permission of http://lotterywinnerbios.blogspot.com (Check out their website for more great lottery articles).
As you read it, you will see it is VERY relevant to Winning Lottario. Enjoy!
Imagine if you were lucky enough to win the lottery just once – That would be wonderful, wouldn’t it? Well, Ken Olson from Minnesota wants to win it three times. What a quack, right? Wrong! Ken’s well on his way to winning the lottery three times.
First lottery win – $162,633 on January 24, 2997. Check. Second lottery win – $379,397 on January 8, 2010. Check. See, he’s gonna do it – Just one more to go!
Perhaps Ken Olson’s secret to winning the lottery is the type of game he chooses to play. Ken won both of his jackpots on a game from Minnesota Lottery called Gopher 5. He could’ve chosen to play Powerball, but he didn’t. See, the odds of winning Gopher 5 are a lot better than winning Powerball – A LOT BETTER! The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are approximately 1-in-195-million. The odds of winning the Gopher 5 jackpot are approximately 1-in-1.5 million. That means that if you buy just one ticket for each of the two lottery games, you’d be about 130 times more likely to win the Gopher 5 jackpot. See what I mean?
So Ken Olson won two jackpots, bringing his total take to $542,030, for now. He’ll win again.
It’s actually a funny story about how Ken managed to win his latest lottery jackpot. He suffered a heart attack (No, that’s not the funny part) and, while in the hospital, realized that he didn’t buy any lottery tickets that day. The fact that he didn’t have any lottery tickets really bothered him (I don’t know why the fact that he had a heart attack didn’t bother him, but that’s another story). He managed to be released from hospital in time to buy Gopher 5 lottery tickets prior to the 6:10 pm cut-off time and those are the tickets he won with. Ken says that if he didn’t have a heart attack, he wouldn’t have won his latest lottery prize.
January 10th, 2010 | Author: lottario books
I must be the luckiest person alive. In the past three days I found out I won 1.5 Million Euros in the UK lottery, One Million Euros in the Winx International Lottery, 1.5 Million Euros in the 2007 E-Mail Lottery, and 500,000 Pounds in an e-mail lottery held by the Coca Cola Company. Wow! What did I do to receive all these riches?
The sad truth is there are actually people who fall for these schemes. For the promise of a quick buck (or million Euros as the case may be) people will turn over their bank account numbers, wire money in the hopes of getting more back, or give other information that could lead to identity theft.
These lottery and sweepstakes schemes have gone on long before the internet, with one of the oldest being the phony sweepstakes which required an entrance fee to claim your prize, which amounted to more than the “prize” was worth. Another variation of that scheme was requiring the potential “winner” to call a certain number to find out if he or she was a winner. The phone call cost the potential “winner” a certain amount per minute with an unusually-long wait time on hold. The real winner was the scamming company which made money off the phone calls.
Today’s thieves have a wide choice of scam-delivery mechanisms, including in person, the mail, phone and internet. However, the same holds true no matter how the scam is delivered: if it sounds too good to be true, it is.
How Can You Recognize the Lottery or Sweepstakes Scam?
There are certainly legitimate lotteries and sweepstakes offers. Who hasn’t bought a state or multi-state lottery ticket from their local lottery retailer? Or, who hasn’t seen one of those sweepstakes offered by a recognized company advertising in the coupon section of the Sunday newspaper? You fill out the entry form or reasonable facsimile (usually a 3”x5” card) with your name and address and send it off.
Therein is your biggest clue as to whether you’re the victim of a scam. In a legitimate lottery or sweepstakes you have bought the ticket or entered your name and address. In a scam lottery or sweepstakes you are notified you’ve won when you haven’t even entered or bought a ticket.
In addition, it’s illegal to use the mail or telephone to play lotteries across borders, whether national or state lines. Any lottery offer involving the purchase of lottery tickets for other state or country lotteries could end up with you being charged with illegal activities.
One ploy used by foreign scammers involving lotteries or sweepstakes is offering you an “advance” on your winnings. The scam artist will send you a check for part of your “winnings.” All you have to do is wire them payment for “taxes” or other official purposes. By the time you find out their check has bounced the money you wired is in their hands. And, because it was wired it’s harder to trace.
Lottery scammers don’t always use e-mail or the phone. Sometimes they do their dirty work in person. A typical scam would go something like this: You are approached in person by someone who claims he or she just won the lottery but isn’t eligible to claim it. They offer to split the money with you if you claim the prize. Sounds good, right? Except that before you claim the prize from the lottery retailer you are required to withdraw some money from your account and give it to the ticket holder as a good-faith gesture. By the time you find out you’re holding a non-winning lottery ticket, the thief is long-gone with your good-faith money.
In order to protect yourself from these scams, it’s important to remember the following:
Lotteries
• It’s illegal to use the mail or telephone to play lotteries across borders.
• If you ever receive a phone call, letter or e-mail announcing you just won a lottery, it’s a scam.
Sweepstakes
• It’s illegal for a company to require you to pay to win or claim a sweepstakes prize.
• It’s illegal for a company to suggest that buying something will improve your chances of winning.
• Companies cannot ask for money from you for taxes they say you owe on a sweepstakes winning.
• Be cautious when entering sweepstakes from displays you see in malls – often times these are people just wanting your name and address for a future sweepstakes scam.
• Only enter sweepstakes from recognizable companies, and never pay a fee to enter.
Avoiding being the victim of a scam takes a healthy dose of skepticism. If you are ever unsure about the legitimacy of an offer made to you, you can call the National Fraud Information Center’s Hotline at 1-800-876-7060.
From Shari Hearn
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/lottery-scams-dont-be-the-next-victim-125668.html
January 25th, 2010 | Author: admin
While this article is written by Gavin Evans for the UK lottery, it applies to ALL lotteries worldwide, including Lottario. Enjoy!
Millions of people all over the UK play the UK lottery every week on the off chance that they can scoop that life altering jackpot. You would therefore imagine that these people would be frantic to get hold of the results the minute the draw has taken place to see if their dreams have been realized. You may then be rather staggered when I tell you that a staggering sum of prize money never gets claimed.
The UK National lotto is regularly holding enormous quantities of prize money that they are just waiting to be claimed. In only the 5 month period from September 2008 to February 2009 just short of £4 million still remains unclaimed by players of just the UK lotto game. These are not just a group of insignificant prizes either; there are many in excess of £10,000, a handful of more than £100,000 as well as one prize of £1.5 million.
If you have made the effort to purchase a ticket for the UK National lottery, make a habit of checking your ticket numbers the minute the draw has been completed. If you are fortunate enough to secure a cash prize, claim it as soon as possible because the UK lotto rules stipulate that any prize that has not been claimed within 180 days will no longer be payable.
The principle reason given by lottery players as to why they do not claim their lotto wins is because they have lost their tickets. I’m convinced that most of us have lost a lottery ticket at some point and have desperately tried to recover it in time for the draw but with no luck.
Depending on the size of your UK lottery win, there are different ways in which you claim your prize. If your prize is under £200, you can pick up your cash from any UK National lottery retailer in Britain. When your cash sum fall into the category between £200 and £500 some lotto retailers may still pay out this sum but for those who decide against this you will need to visit a post office to claim your cash prize.
When you have to claim UK lottery prizes that fit the category between £500 and £50,000 again the post office can be used as your port of call. You will have to complete a claim form, provide your lucky lotto ticket as evidence as well as show your proof of identification before being given a cheque for your prize. Cash prizes of this kind can also be claimed by post from the UK lotto head quarters. Again you will need to complete a claim form and send your winning ticket as verification of your win. If you choose to apply for your prize in this manner, photocopy your winning ticket for your security and then send the original via recorded delivery.
When you are fortunate enough to be claiming a UK lottery prize in excess of £50,000, you need to visit one of the National lottery’s regional centres and pick up your prize in person.
If you want to avoid ever joining the long line of individuals missing out on claiming their UK lottery spoils, it would be sensible to set up an online subscription plan with the UK National lottery directly. If you choose this option, your lottery ticket payment will always be taken on time and you will be advised of any prizes coming your way a short time after the draw has been made. Playing the lotto in this manner will guarantee that you always end up with lottery cash that is rightfully yours.
Gavin Evans
http://www.articlesbase.com/online-gambling-articles/the-vast-sums-of-unclaimed-uk-lotto-prizes-751897.html
Now, where did you put your Winning Lottario ticket ? 
