Thousands of Norway lottery players mistakenly told they won millions

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Perfecttiming2 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 03:52:56 GMT

I hope no one (who got the erroneous notice) quit their job upon receiving it.

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Wendy777 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:06:52 GMT

What was laughable about the situation

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Artist77 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:45:27 GMT

Anyone can file a lawsuit. The vendor took the correct action by have a high level vendor rep step down. Unless a person received a check, cashed it, and the state or country tried to take it back at that point, the lawsuits will lose. It is a calculation error and a reasonable person does not spend money until it is in the bank.

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KY Floyd — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 02:17:21 GMT

I see a whole lotta lawsuits coming!!

I see a lot of stupid people losing lawsuits.

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Tony Numbers — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:08:54 GMT

I see a whole lotta lawsuits coming

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Bleudog101 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:19:47 GMT

Dangerous to read eating a salad...could aspirate from laughing.

I thought the only European country not on Euros was the UK; didn't know Norway didn't join the bandwagon. Will look that up later. Well they say you should learn something everyday...they don't use Euros in Norway

Thousands of Norway lottery players mistakenly told they won millions

Lottery Post — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:12:30 GMT

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By Kate Northrop

Thousands of Norwegians were told last week that they had won lifechanging amounts of money in the lottery, only to have those hopes dashed away when it turned out to be a massive technical error.

47,000 Norway lottery players were sent on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when they received a notification that they had won millions, when in actuality the amounts were far less.

On Friday, Norway's state-owned l... [ More ]