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Inquiry in Iowa Lottery mystery touches CanadaNews Story
Investigators seeking to unravel an attempted multimillion-dollar Iowa Lottery jackpot scheme have been in contact with Canadian authorities and are looking into people who may have been involved, an agent said Thursday. Special Agent in Charge Patrick Townsend of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation confirmed his agency sought assistance from Canadian law enforcement early in the 18-month investigation into a withdrawn claim for a $14.3 million Hot Lotto jackpot. (See $14.3 million
Jul 26, 2013, 12:48 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Another lottery contract is under the D.C. Council's microscopeNews Story
For more than two hours Thursday, a D.C. Council committee discussed the merits of the lottery contract. No, not that lottery contract. Not the one for the city's electronic numbers games, which has been a pox on city politics for five years now, prompting numerous hearings, lawsuits, reports, investigations, newspaper articles, editorials, and much embarrassment. This lottery contact is a smaller one, worth $9.7 million over four years to produce and distribute scratch-off tickets, awarde
Jun 30, 2013, 2:11 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Professional Beggars...??Reply
we live in world where, majority of people who vote, vote in people who Will steal other people's money, to pay for stuff they the voters want its theft on grand scale, they just think people Owe them a living, god forbid they work hard for 100% of what they have, no sir, now add in someone who didn't earn that Money, like lottery winners and ofc u have beggars all around the lifes of lottery winners its mentel heath issue of some people in human race is evil and heartless when it come
May 6, 2013, 11:43 am - joshuacloak - Lottery Discussion Forum

Does Your State Protect YOU?
March 2013, Pennsylvania has changed the winners list for Instant tickets, Big 4, Quinto etc to only use a winners FIRST NAME, LAST INITIAL and COUNTY. This is a move in the right direction considering that before March a person was able to view winners of amounts $1,000 and up...including TOP PRIZE winners....the lists had their FULL NAME, TOWN and AMOUNT WON. They've also added a FRAUD alert in the ticker on the TOP of the page..much bigger than the link which was inserted
Apr 18, 2013, 8:51 am - dr65 - Lottery Discussion Forum

NY brothers claim $5M win from '06 lottery ticketReply
It is indeed a pity and highly regrettable, that you grant with much ease, exemption to a government agency, which has acted in a way that reflects defectiveness across a broad spectrum of expected expertise, in the exercise of duty in this matter. The mood in this posts regarding this matter verifies that the majority opinion of the posters is that, there is defectiveness in the actions of the lottery in the handling of the matter and is vastly un-surportive of your position. A tree canno
Oct 17, 2012, 11:15 pm - Factorem - Lottery News

N.Y. man lost $100,000 in lottery scamNews Story
A Saratoga County, New York, man may have lost more than $100,000 in an international email-based scheme that used fraudulent IRS forms to dupe victims into believing they'd won a multi-million dollar lottery but needed to pay fees to collect their winnings. A 14-month investigation by the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration uncovered a trail of email and bank accounts that led to European suspects who had obtained credit card and bank account information for an unknown num
Apr 5, 2012, 11:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

NJ man sued over $38.5M lottery ticketNews Story
A trail is underway in the case of a New Jersey construction worker who is being sued by his former co-workers after cashing in a $38.5 million lottery ticket. Americo Lopes and five co-workers participated in a weekly lottery pool starting in 2007 where they worked at Berto Construction, according to the New Jersey Star-Ledger. Each participant contributed $2 to the pool and Lopes would buy the tickets. Lopes also played the lottery independently from the pool. On November 10, 2009, tw
Mar 14, 2012, 9:12 am - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa Lottery to give away millions from jackpot mysteryNews Story
Share of expired Powerball jackpot sold in Georgia also to be given away A secret winner's loss will be some lucky Iowans' gain. The Iowa Lottery announced plans Friday to give away $2 million in cash prizes, including a $1 million prize at the Iowa State Fair, with the state's share of a leftover jackpot that went unpaid after a New York lawyer refused to explain how he ended up with the winning ticket. We're going to see if we can have better luck the second time around, Iowa Lottery
Feb 26, 2012, 8:52 am - Todd - Lottery News

Warning to those who play overseas lotteries!
Hello, guys. I'm Farha, long time lurker and finally decided to open an account. As my first post I'd like to warn you guys in order to avoid a potentially life wrecking disappointment. I read several topics about people playing euromillions or the national UK lottery when they actually don't live in Europe or the USA respectively; either through agents or by some other more obscure methods like actually having an online account (somehow). I'm speaking to those people. First let's
Feb 6, 2012, 4:11 pm - FARAHSAN - Lottery Discussion Forum

Full Tilt Poker a ponzi scheme, says U.S. attorneyNews Story
An Internet poker company that was blocked from operating in the U.S. in the spring as part of an online gambling crackdown was not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The popular Full Tilt Poker website illegally raided player accounts to fund operations and make lavish payments to its owners, Justice Department lawyers said in a revised civil lawsuit filed in New York. Over four years, the company used $444 million in player money to p
Sep 21, 2011, 8:10 am - Todd - Lottery News