You remember our old ‘friend’ Nolan Daniels, the Facebook hoaxer?

Well, would you believe, it turns out Nolan was not just another overage adolescent ‘having a bit of a laugh’.

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I get nervous if I haven’t checked my lottery tickets just a few days after the draw, but judging by the number of late claims it seems we’re quicker to buy tickets than we are to check the results!

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Jack Whittaker’s life changed when he turned a $1 Powerball ticket into $314.9 million.

There was a tense moment where he thought he was 1 ball away from the jackpot, as the wrong results had been broadcast.

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If you’ve seen this guy around Facebook recently, you may have been inclined to think “lucky blighter, he’s now rich for life”.

Here he is holding his winning Powerball ticket for Wednesday 28th November:-

And yes, that’s the draw with the $587.5 Million jackpot.

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Fixing a lottery is extremely difficult to do. There are a lot of controls and measures in place to stop exactly that.

As 8 officials from the Mexican lottery discovered, at a cost of $13.7 Million in fines.

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It has to be a good day when your lottery ticket hits the jackpot doesn’t it?

Well, it could be a better day for the 98 people who will discover today that they’ve just won one of the worst ever jackpots on the Florida Lottery Fantasy 5 game.

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The shop worker from Manchester who stole a winning lottery ticket from 78 year old Maureen Holt has been jailed.

Farrakh Nizzar, 30, scanned her ticket in the shop but told her it had won nothing.

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Sean Mewherter was arrested yesterday accused of stealing a $1 Million winning lottery ticket.

The announcement came direct from the North Caroline lottery company.

The ticket was claimed by Sean’s wife, Mikala Fields, but officials say Sean’s employer made the original report of the theft.

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Most of us would consider it a bad day if we realised we’d dropped a £5 note.

So we can only begin to imagine how disappointing it would be to learn we’d lost £1 Million.

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I know there’s a new one every day, and this one is barely more plausible than most of them.

But people are falling for it.

So here goes another lottery scam warning.

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