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UK National Lottery potential victim to worldwide "blue screen of death" catastropheNews Story
Website and app completely offline, players unable to buy or cash tickets By Kate Northrop In what is being dubbed the largest IT outage in history, the U.K. National Lottery may have fallen victim to the Blue Screen of Death update over the weekend, after their website and mobile app were completely taken offline, leaving thousands of players unable to cash or buy tickets. A severe global IT outage caused by a botched CrowdStrike update jammed up emergency services, healthcare, tech
Jul 22, 2024, 4:54 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Accusations of "disturbing" new claims procedures after Allwyn sends investigator to winner's homeNews Story
Former lottery fan says she'll never play again after being treated like a criminal By Kate Northrop A devoted UK lottery player says she will no longer be forking out cash for lottery tickets after Allwyn launched a disturbing investigation into her identity. A lottery winner says she was treated like a criminal in her own home after the UK National Lottery sent an investigator to her house to take photos of her and she has still not received her prize. Since Allwyn took over a
Mar 11, 2024, 1:53 pm - Todd - Lottery News

UK couple scoops £1 million in lottery before overcoming cancer health scareNews Story
Lottery players-turned-millionaires march forward with a smile By Kate Northrop A U.K. couple felt like they were on a merry-go-round when a Welsh man won a 1 million (US$1.26 million) lottery prize during a bout of sickness, followed by his wife both receiving a diagnosis for and beating cancer. The Francis' lives never felt more up and down than when they won 1 million in the U.K. National Lottery's Millionaire Maker drawing in January 2022. From the moment Mark Francis, of Swa
Jun 13, 2023, 3:06 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Kentucky Lottery now using computerized drawingsNews Story
Coronavirus claims another victim: Real lottery drawings By Todd Northrop Starting today, you will no longer be able to watch how the Kentucky Lottery draws its daily numbers games because the drawings now take place inside a computer program. The daily Pick 3, Pick 4, and CashBall 225 games are all transitioned to computerized drawings starting Monday, and will no longer be drawn using balls and machines. Instead, a dedicated computer system known as a random number generator will rand
Apr 13, 2020, 9:11 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery millionaires' 'dreams came true' after learning son is cancer freeNews Story
It is just like all of our lifelong dreams came true. That was the joyful expression of a UK couple who won a 2 million (US$2.6 million) lottery jackpot three days before finding out that their teenage son was clear of cancer. John and Allison McDonald have described how their their Lucky Dip ticket matched all six numbers to scoop the Lotto jackpot on Wednesday, December 18. Three days later, Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, from Stockton on Tees, were given the news that their 15-year-old son
Jan 3, 2020, 9:52 am - Todd - Lottery News

The Fifth Wheel (the Long one I am going to buy if this works)Reply
A Page from the Fifth Wheel Travel Journal Cricketville Lottery Game Show. Tugging the Fifth Wheel to the Local KOA, I joined a group of Refuges (KOA Refuge by the Trailer Park Troubadours) in the Camp Center to watch a little TV. Matlock was on but the group was watching a Game Show instead. They said they watched this Game Show Every Day and recorded Matlock to watch during Dinner. I sat down to watch and soon found myself looking a past episodes of the show. Someone in the group said
Nov 22, 2019, 11:48 pm - AllenB - Lottery Discussion Forum

Court hears arguments on $559M lottery winner's plea to remain anonymousNews Story
The mystery woman in possession of the winning $560 million Powerball ticket purchased last month in Merrimack, New Hampshire, is highly stressed and is preparing to have security guards in place should her name be revealed, according to her lawyers. She doesn't want to be a celebrity, said William Shaheen of Shaheen and Gordon law firm. Shaheen said his client, who has filed a lawsuit against the New Hampshire Lottery Commission seeking to keep her identity a secret even though she signed t
Feb 14, 2018, 9:55 am - Todd - Lottery News

Canadian man wins $400,000 playing 40 identical Washington Lottery ticketsNews Story
A Canadian man beat the odds by winning $400,000 from a Washington Lottery game that typically pays winners $10,000. Thomas Grimme of White Rock, British Columbia, picked the four winning numbers for the Match 4 game last December 28, something statisticians say is roughly a 1-in-10,600 chance. But he didn't pick those numbers on a single $2 ticket. Rather, he bought 40 tickets at the Cost Cutter Grocery in Blaine, picking the same four numbers on all of them. When those four numbers were
Oct 25, 2017, 2:24 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Who is mightier, the one-armed bandits or the cellphone bandits?Reply
More on this fascinating Story ~EK Russian hackers hit global jackpot with slots code Las Vegas conference hears horror story By TODD PRINCE An international syndicate of Russian hackers that cashed out millions from slots in U.S. casinos over the years is focusing its efforts on South America and Europe after busts in Missouri and Singapore. The Russian syndicate most recently struck in Peru, a security consultant to slot-makers told a group of U.S. regulators at a
May 1, 2017, 8:46 pm - eddessaknight - Gaming Forum

Florida store employee arrested for 'micro-scratching' lottery ticketsNews Story
Includes video report Authorities say a Florida convenience store clerk was cashing in by cheating, while selling customers worthless lottery tickets. Lottery officials say he got greedy and tried to cash in too many big winning lottery scratch-off tickets at the Tampa Lottery District Office. One major red flag was when he tried to claim a $500 winning scratch-off ticket that hadn't even been scratched. For more than a year, lottery officials believe an employee of a Radiant conveni
Jan 6, 2017, 9:10 am - Todd - Lottery News