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E-mail lottery scams arise againNews Story
A fool and his money are soon parted, especially if the fool believes everything in his e-mail box.Darrel Van Sickle wasn't fooled, however.The former owner of Darrel's Pool Supplies on Dearborn Street thought something was fishy when he got an e-mail recently telling him he had won a lottery. All he needed to collect his winnings was to contact a fiduciary agent who would facilitate a transfer of his funds, most likely by asking Van Sickle to provide his bank information so the money could be
Apr 26, 2004, 6:58 am - Lottery News

Lottery winner gives away £12 million in one weekNews Story
Generous Marion Richardson is giving her family 12 million (US$21.5 million) of her 17 million (US$30.5 million) Euro Millions lottery jackpot - because she reckons she won too much.A week after she scooped the jackpot Marion, 57, left, is handing 1.5 million (US$2.7 million) each to her three sons, two daughters, two brothers and sister. Yesterday the former hard-up post worker returned to her 45,000 Gateshead home after staying away following her win.The jobless mother vowed to spend, spen
Apr 20, 2004, 7:25 am - Lottery News

Man bets all on roulette and winsNews Story
Now the subject of TV showA British man who sold all his possessions, including his clothes, stood in a rented tuxedo on Sunday surrounded by family and friends and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel.He won't go home empty handed.Ashley Revell, a 32-year-old Londoner, sold all his possessions in March, took $135,300 to the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, did some low stakes gambling and then placed everything he had left on Red. The wheel was spun, a crowd of supporters including h
Apr 12, 2004, 1:57 am - Lottery News

Man to bet all on Vegas roulette spinNews Story
A British man who has sold all his possessions, including his clothes, will stand in a rented tuxedo on Sunday and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel.If he wins, he doubles his money. If he loses, he will be left with only the television crew documenting his every move.Ashley Revell, a 32-year-old Londoner, said he was worth about 75,000 pounds ($138,000) after he sold everything in March. I thought I was worth at least 100,000 pounds, he said in a telephone interview from La
Apr 9, 2004, 4:16 am - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery Fires Human Resources DirectorNews Story
The Ohio Lottery's Human Resources director was fired after officials say she tapped an employee's phone line.Renee Bianchi said she did nothing wrong and listened to conversations in her role as human resources director.Lottery Director Dennis Kennedy fired Bianchi Friday. In a letter to her, he says she was fired for dishonesty, insubordination and other actions.A separate letter says Bianchi authorized a wiretap using state equipment and played at least one recorded conversation for another
Apr 8, 2004, 5:59 am - Lottery News

Tennessee lottery puts dent in Southern Kentucky salesNews Story
Lotto Land is located along Interstate 65 in Southern Kentucky, well positioned to win the business of Tennesseans who long lacked their own state lottery.But Lotto Land, in Franklin, and other Kentucky Lottery retailers along the border have seen a slowdown in sales since Tennessee's lottery started Jan. 20 with four scratch-off games.Lottery sales in seven border counties fell by 12 percent in the Tennessee lottery's first five weeks, according to the Kentucky Lottery Corp. The dropoff is expe
Apr 6, 2004, 4:12 am - Lottery News

Tenn. stores to receive $25,000 for selling Powerball jackpot ticketNews Story
A Tennessee retailer who sells a Powerball ticket that nets the multimillion-dollar grand prize will receive a reward $25,000.The Tennessee Lottery board set the figure yesterday during its regular meeting.Rebecca Paul, president and chief executive officer of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp., told the board that a decision is a week or two away on when Powerball tickets will begin selling in late spring.During the meeting, the lottery also introduced two new scratch-off games, continuing t
Mar 30, 2004, 4:30 am - Lottery News

Beware of Phony Prize Promotions, Lottery Schemes, and Bogus E-mailsNews Story
By now, most people who use e-mail on a regular basis are quite familiar with the word spam and what it looks like in their e-mail in-box. If it wasn't frustrating enough to sort through and fill your trash with junk (postal) mail every day or answer unsolicited telemarketing calls during the dinner hour, now these nuisances and fraudulent schemes have found a new way into our homes and offices through e-mail.According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), consumers in the United States an
Mar 26, 2004, 9:22 am - Lottery News

Co-owner of Pizza House claims $100,000 lottery prizeNews Story
Just because Stacy Varellas of North Adams won $100,000 last week, that doesn't mean she'll be leaving the Pizza House business she co-owns with her husband, Jim.In fact, they won't be changing much at all. It's not a small amount, but it's not such a big amount, she said Wednesday while working at the Adams Pizza House. It's not a million, but it's definitely nice. While Varellas sounds calm now, she was ecstatic to hear on the radio last Wednesday morning that she had the winning numbers of
Mar 26, 2004, 9:18 am - Lottery News

Store owner to appeal jury's lottery decisionNews Story
A store owner plans to appeal a jury's decision that he pay $1.3 million to a lottery winner who said the owner failed to warn him about a jackpot cap.John Struna regularly bought multiple tickets with the same numbers for the Buckeye 5 game at Convenient Food Mart in Cleveland. In October 2001, he chose the winning combination, which he had played on 52 tickets.The game's prize is $100,000, so Struna thought that amount would be multiplied by 52 for each of his winning tickets, giving him $5.2
Mar 26, 2004, 8:54 am - Lottery News