Lottery Winners

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Lotto Mum Wants Son Home Before Collecting Her €5.1M Win

October 19th, 2011

Lily Gallagher, 60, just won €5.1 Million  on the Irish lottery on Saturday. But she says she’ll wait till son Anthony, 31, comes home before she collects her winnings.

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Louisiana Lotto Winner Collects Winnings While Sheriff Gathers Evidence For Fraud

October 13th, 2011

On Monday morning Wally Shihadeh was at the Louisiana lottery HQ, picking up his winnings of $709,106.

But at the same time he was picking up his winners check, the Sheriff’s department was at his store in Minden collecting evidence to charge him with credit card fraud.

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£101M EuroMillions Winners Revealed

October 13th, 2011

Dave and Angie Dawes have been revealed as the winners of last Friday’s enormous EuroMillions jackpot.

The couple who proved to be the sole winners have already received payment of £101,203,600.70 to their new exclusive private banking account.

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First UK Health Lottery Winners

October 11th, 2011

The first jackpot winners have already struck lucky with the new UK Health Lottery.

Two women have claimed the top prize of £100,000 each in the very first draw.

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UK Winner Claims EuroMillions £101M Jackpot

October 9th, 2011

The EuroMillions rollover Superdraw jackpot of £101,203,600 has been won by a single ticket bought in the UK.

As yet the winner has not been identified, but they have made contact with Camelot by phone to confirm their winning ticket and claim the prize.

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ASDA Workers Lottery Syndicate Win £6.8M

October 7th, 2011

A lottery syndicate of ASDA workers from Hyde in Greater Manchester have just collected £6,873,588.

They won the UK Lotto jackpot which had rolled over to last Saturday.

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Woman Sold Wrong Lottery Ticket Wins $25 Million

October 6th, 2011

It could easily have gone the wrong way and ended up being one of those crazy US court cases where everybody sues anybody.

Instead Kathy Scruggs, 44, walked away $25 Million richer.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

Train Geek Spends £1 Million Winnings Turning Disused Station Into Home

October 2nd, 2011

It probably wasn’t quite the luxury home his wife had in mind. But Mark Benbow did keep his promise.

Mark, 38, is a railway worker and self-confessed train enthusiast.

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3.2 Million Reasons Jim Is Glad He Stuck With The Work Lottery Pool

September 30th, 2011

Jim Pollock left his job with Rempel Bros. Concrete over 3 years ago. But he made sure he kept paying his dues to the work lottery pool to this day.

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Winning Lottery Ticket Stuck To Fridge For 2 Months

September 28th, 2011

Craig Henshaw was too busy travelling through Europe to realise he had become a millionaire back home in Toronto.

And for 2 whole months while woodwork teacher Craig travelled with his girlfriend, the multi-million dollar lottery ticket sat there stuck to his fridge door.

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Category: Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories