Source: http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_14527353?source=rv

LONG BEACH - A Long Beach doughnut shop owner who sold a Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $133 million was himself rolling in dough Saturday.

Even though Kevin Thai only gets a half of 1 percent of the total, that still comes to $665,000.

"That's a really big one," he said this morning from his Country Donuts shop at 3200 E. Anaheim St. near Long Beach's Cambodia Town.

A Mega Millions ticket sold at his store that matched all six numbers is worth a whopping $133 million, but the purchaser hasn't surfaced yet.

Source: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/209812

Yes, that's right, he ate the winning ticket

A passenger flying on a Ryanair flight Thursday from Krakow, Poland, to the U.K.'s East Midlands airport ate a winning lottery ticket worth 10,000 euros ($15,000) when he was told he could not claim the prize mid-flight.

The cabin crew advised the winner that he would have to redeem the winning ticket directly with the company that runs the lottery, as it was such a large sum.

The passenger proceeded to become so irate that he ate the winning ticket.

Source: http://news.ph.msn.com/weird-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3899834

A poverty-stricken 97-year-old man in Vietnam won up to 400,000 dollars in a lottery, a report said Tuesday, sparking a frenzy among relatives eager to get a piece of his new-found wealth.

Source: http://www.kmov.com/news/off-beat/Unclaimed-lotto-ticket-to-expire--84466522.html

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Luck hasn't run out for the holder of a winning Indiana lottery ticket. Lottery officials had said the $2.5 million jackpot would expire last Friday. But they miscalculated the date by three days. So, lottery officials have decided to extend the deadline until next Monday. That winning ticket had been sold at a Meijer convenience store on the south side of Indianapolis for the Aug. 19 drawing. But the double dose of good luck will turn into a pumpkin -- if that winning ticket isn't turned in by 5 p.m. Monday.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/15/lottery-winners-56m-prize

A smiling, slightly awkward, but inescapably normal West Country couple sat perched on a pair of golden thrones in the damp grounds of a Bath hotel this afternoon, clutching an enormous oblong of paper on which were inscribed 13 small but life-changing words.

Neither Nigel Page nor his partner, Justine Laycock, needed to look at the piece of paper they were holding up for the cameras. They both knew what it said: "Fifty-six million, eight thousand, one hundred and thirteen pounds and twenty pence."

Whatever shrieks and whoops the couple and their children may have emitted on Saturday morning when they discovered they had become the UK's biggest ever lottery winners had long since fallen silent and the only extraordinary thing about Page and Laycock as they emerged from anonymity to meet the press, sip ­reasonably priced bubbly and pose before the obligatory red Ferrari was how extraordinarily ordinary they seemed.

Saturday morning, Page explained, had begun as it usually did. He had gone down for breakfast leaving Laycock to doze on. Then, as he and his daughter were eating, the news came on and he learned that the £112m EuroMillions jackpot was to be shared between a ticket bought in Spain and one bought in the UK.

Source: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20100209/twl-us-powerball-winner-ef375f8.html


RALEIGH, N.C. – A retired fire department employee in North Carolina is the winner of Saturday's Powerball lottery jackpot.

Source: http://www.kfor.com/kfor-in-your-corner-tips-scams,0,5077482.story

When you receive a email from someone you don't know use caution. If you receive a letter from a company or individual that claims they have money for you that you did not contact first...Beware.

If a foreign country is mentioned hit delete and do not respond to it. Also look for red-flags like spelling errors and poor grammar. A long strange tale of need or assistance with finances may come with the letter or email but it's always a ploy to entice you out of your money.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582320,00.html

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —  A central Kentucky autoworker is lucky he held on to the $128.6 million Powerball ticket he bought on Christmas Eve during some last-minute shopping — after all, it was printed by mistake.

Lottery officials said Rob Anderson and his wife, Tuesday, were winners of the largest jackpot in the state's history.

On Wednesday the couple was introduced at the state lottery headquarters in Louisville. The Andersons said they didn't initially believe they had won the $128.6 million jackpot after buying lottery tickets together for 12 years.

"We didn't hit it, that's not us," Rob Anderson said he told his wife after showing her the winning ticket the morning after the Dec. 26 drawing. "Something's not right!"

Rob Anderson, 39, said the winning ticket was a misprint that he decided to keep while buying stocking stuffers at a Georgetown, Ky., gas station. He wanted to buy $1 lottery tickets for three people, but the clerk goofed.

Economic woes eased for thousands in Spain on Monday as the Christmas lottery — billed among the world's richest — dished out some €2.32 billion (US$3.23 billion) in prizes.

The top prize of the lottery dubbed "El Gordo" (The Fat One) went to holders of tickets bearing the number 32365 — which appears on 1,950 tickets, each winning €300,000 (US$418,000). Thousands of others cashed in on runner-up prizes.

SAGKEENG FIRST NATION, Man. -- It was a massive lottery jackpot, called the biggest single-family win in Canadian history.

And now, on the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba, about 100 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, signs are starting to emerge of the generosity of the couple who last month won $50 million.