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The extraordinary story of someone wrongly identified as the winner of a record lottery payout.

Originally posted to the AsianImage.co.uk website

12:40pm Friday 11th June 2010

Exclusive By Asian Image reporter

A couple who have been wrongly accused of winning £84million in the Euro lottery have spoken of their nightmare.

They claim they have had people knocking on their door wanting their mortgages repaid and others asking for new gold teeth.

The constant barrage of requests in the past few weeks has left them angry.

The rumours surfaced after it was believed an Asian person from the region had won £84million in the Euro Millions lottery in May. The winner has opted for the right to anonymity.

The man known as BK works in Blackburn and lives in Preston exclusively told Asian Image, “I was working in my office when I got the first phone call. I laughed it off at first and thought nothing of it.

“But thereafter, the avalanche of calls, text messages and emails began. Close friends and family, immediately accepted that I had not won the £84 million.

“A friend, who I worked with some years ago and now living in China, another in Washington DC, also got news of the ‘rumour’. We were amazed at the speed and distance a rumour like this could go.

“All of a sudden long-lost relatives, past associates, friends of friends and total strangers, were suddenly looking to contact me.

“Individuals suddenly recollected an event or passing interaction that we may have had. Thereby, claiming by ‘right’ a share of the winnings.”

The winning amount according to the Euro Millions website was £84,451,320.60 for the draw held on May 14. The prize made the winner the 789th richest person in the UK with a larger personal fortune than the likes of Sir Sean Connery (£80m).

Asian Image was even called to be told of BK’s winnings.

The nature of the requests were weird and bizarre. BK said: “We had requests for motorbikes, diamonds, second homes in Dubai, sports cars, loans and mortgages to be repaid and even gold teeth. The list was endless.

“Wealthy individuals were also trying to jump on the bandwagon. It got both funny and ridiculous when close friends had people knocking on their doors late at night by ‘strangers’ asking for them to be introduced to me and pay off their ‘mortgages’ or ‘debts’.

“The one single vital point was that, all those who requested something financial or material, did not ask for me to help or aid someone else in need or the poor.”

He was also taken aback by those wanting money that would in particular circles be termed as ‘haram’.

BK added: “One individual contradicted himself to the point where his opening sentence was ‘the winnings were haram (forbidden) and I should return them, but it would be okay for a contribution to a ‘Islamic Girls School in Dewsbury’.

“Another individual phoned for building a new mosque in Bolton, when he finally accepted that I had not won, he confirmed that he was just looking for his personal debts to be paid off.

“A neighbour called round one evening and would not believe me at all, it took him ages to leave, waiting for a confession.

“Distant relatives in the Midlands claimed they had documentary proof that I had won, stating my details were in the London press. Believe me I searched for ages on the internet and could find no reference to me.”

He said he had stopped answering his phone after the first week, but somehow people found ways to contact him.

BK added: “What I have learned about people over the last weeks is that there have been individuals who I have classed as good people, family and friends. And they have been just that ‘good people’.

“As for the ‘gossiper’s’ they live so called outwardly false religious lives, inwardly full of envy and hate and living a life of ‘gheebat’.

“My advice to any winner is – the ones you classed as family and friends, will always be just that. Look after the poor, needy and hard-working wherever you find them and whatever race and religion they are. The honest ones will never ask for anything.”

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Originally posted to the Stirling Observer website.

Jun 4 2010 by Stephen Robertson, Stirling Observer Friday

A CHURCH in Aberfoyle has landed a lottery cash boost of almost £10,000.

St Mary’s Episcopal Church, in Main Street, picked up the £9847 award in the recent round of grants from the National Lottery’s small grants scheme, Awards for All.

It will be put to good use to help improve public safety access and the facilities of the church itself.

Railings will be put in place, an audio and public address system will be installed and stackable chairs will also be bought.

A number of other community groups and charities in and around Stirling were also celebrating after being selected to receive grant funding.

Among these were the Stirling-based Aberlour Child Care Trust, which received a £7251 award.

Elsewhere, The Strathendrick Pipe Band Association were awarded £5,000 to buy equipment that will enable members to attend four major pipe band competitions.

Strathblane Out of School Care Ltd received £4865 for play equipment and summer excursions, and the Braehead and Broomridge Childminding Support Group landed £4715 which will be used to pay for things such as hall and equipment rental, snacks, activities and trips.

ACE Cornton, the community based adult learning project, also got a £4000 award to help develop peer support and mentoring services.

http://www.stirlingobserver.co.uk/stirling-news/local-news-stirling/news-stirling/2010/06/04/lottery-tees-up-a-10k-boost-for-aberfoyle-church-51226-26581928/

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Originally posted on the HeraldScotland.com website.

Phil Miller, Arts Correspondent

29 May 2010

It may be the first national artistic movement inspired entirely by cold, hard cash.

With government cuts, standstill budgets, the financial crisis and the ongoing recession, many young and established visual artists are facing a bleak financial future unless they get a lucky break.

But a new collective of UK contemporary artists – led by Glasgow-based Ellie Harrison – have decided to engineer their own luck, with a scheme which maximises their chances of winning large amounts of money on the various National Lottery draws.

To be launched nationally in July, the Syndicate, as they call themselves, will “strategically” play the lottery games using a mathematical system they believe increases the odds for the 40 players to win large amounts of money, which will then be shared equally.

The group of artists – including Harrison, who graduates from Glasgow School of Art’s esteemed MFA course this summer, John Beagles, S Mark Gubb, who is representing Wales at the Venice Biennale, and the Becks Futures-nominated Hayley Newman – will purchase 44 lines on each of the two weekly UK Lotto draws, at £1 a ticket, and 36 lines on the weekly EuroMillions which is £2 a ticket.

Each artist joining the Syndicate is therefore required to pay £4 a week for the duration of the year, or a total of £208 a year for each artist.

Each of the 44 lines they choose will use the same five Artists’ Lottery Syndicate numbers, which are secret, with the sixth number on each line being unique to that ticket.

The numbers on a lotto ticket range from 1 to 49, so the remaining 44 numbers available will be entered on the lotto lines filled in by the artists.

This system, the Syndicate said, hugely increases the chances of winning the Lotto or EuroMillions jackpots.

Harrison said the system means they will try to utilise the idea of luck, which has always played an important part in artistic careers, as well as a new way to access Lottery cash which has, since its start in 1994, been a boon for the cultural sphere.

She added: “I had the idea for the Artists’ Lottery Syndicate when it appeared that the glory days of arts funding which we witnessed under New Labour were drawing to a close.

“It seemed clear that artists would have to find new ways of funding their work and surviving in what was being referred to as a new ‘age of austerity’ for the arts.

“The Artists’ Lottery Syndicate aims to be a speculative new way of acquiring funds for artists. I thought it could be a fun collective activity, which would act as a gentle critique of artist’s relationships to the economy, as well as a potential money maker.

“It is a group of artists who are still aspirational, despite this time of economic doom and gloom, and who are coming together to support each other in their attempts to hit the jackpot. We’re using a specially calculated combination of numbers to maximise our odds of winning prizes. At the end of the year, each of the artists will receive a cheque for one-fortieth of the money we accumulate.”

The Syndicate is being run by Harrison and its other members include MFA students and artists from Birmingham, Cardiff, Fife, Glasgow, Lancaster, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Plymouth, Preston, Stoke-on-Trent, Suffolk and Worcestershire.

It will initially run from July 1 this year to July 2011, but may be continued if it proves to be successful.

The GSA Master course has produced artists such as the Turner Prize-winning Richard Wright, Douglas Gordon and Simon Starling.

This year its graduation show is being held at the Glue Factory and the CCA in Glasgow, and runs from June 11.

The big winners

The odds of winning the jackpot with a single ticket are nearly 14 million to one, but for a group running 30 tickets the chances are better, at 466,666 to one. The individual prize each person takes will fall in proportion to this, however.

Around a quarter of all jackpot wins are by syndicates, according to the National Lottery, but organisers warn would-be syndicate managers that they should sign contracts beforehand to avoid disputes.

Issues such as whether or not to go public in the event of a win can be divisive, and even close friends are advised to set out ground rules in advance.

Seven IT workers from Merseyside shared a £45m lottery jackpot in November last year, taking home more than £6m each, just two months after another group of nine friends, based at the Doon Inn in Blantyre, shared £4.5m.

Five years ago a syndicate of six women at the Morrison Bowmore’s bottling plant in Glasgow each won a £2.5m share of the total £15m jackpot.


http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/artists-in-a-bid-for-success-with-different-type-of-draw-1.1031219

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Originally published on National-Lottery.com

It can mean a lot to a village shop to be the only place to be selling lottery tickets for miles, especially in rural regions. Offering lottery tickets for sale can mean keeping your head above water when you run the post office in a tiny hamlet or the petrol station on a little used b road. So the latest lottery shake up will mean a great deal to certain lottery retailers because as many as 175 stores around the UK are to lose their lottery contracts for not performing as well as they could on the sale of lottery tickets.

The changes to lottery retailers around the UK are to take place in 28 days and all affected retailers have been advised of the removal of lottery machines in their premises. The changes effect lottery terminals that are turning over less that £1,000 a week and this could mean a blow to rural communities.

It’s not just rural locations either, at least half of the 175 terminals to be removed are in chain stores around the UK, making this a big cut back for the lottery company. The UK Lotto have made no secret about their desire to cut administration costs and it seems that this is one way that they are reaching their aim.

Check your local lottery shop, it’s quite possible there will be no lottery sales there soon, although with so many lottery players now buying lottery tickets online, it’s little wonder that lottery kiosks are reducing around the UK.

Article Last Updated: 27th May 2010

http://www.national-lottery.com/news/lottery-shake-up-sees-contracts-lost.asp

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Perhaps money doesn’t change you. Maybe it just makes you the same – but with money……

Originally published on the BBC website.

A notorious National Lottery millionaire from Norfolk says he wants to work as a dustman again after losing his fortune.

Michael Carroll, of Downham Market, was 19 when he won £9.7m in November 2002.

Mr Carroll, dubbed the “Lotto lout” by the tabloids because of his life of petty crime, collected his jackpot still wearing an electronic tag.

Veolia Environmental Services, which runs the bin service, said: “We are not recruiting for operatives in the area.”

Life and times of Michael Carroll:

· November 2002: Mr Carroll wins £9.7m jackpot while under electronic tagging order for being drunk and disorderly
· December 2002: He is fined £1,300 for dodging two £5 train fares
· June 2003: Fined £12,000 for claiming nearly £330 in Jobseeker’s Allowance while working as a dustman
· July 2004: Jailed for five months for breaching a court order
· February 2006: Sentenced to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to affray
· January 2007: Given a two-year supervised community order for abusing train travellers

Mr Carroll’s house in Swaffham was recently put up for sale.

He said: “I need some money don’t I? I can’t keep on going on as I have been.

“It will get me back into reality instead of the rollercoaster I’ve been on for the last eight years.”

He said he preferred working outside, but added he was now more unfit than he had been when he gave up the job in 2002.

When father-of-two Mr Carroll was jailed for affray in 2006, Norwich Crown court heard he had 42 previous offences recorded since 1997.

Just before he was jailed he admitted in an interview with BBC Look East that he had spent £1.2m of his lottery fortune on cocaine but added that he had stopped taking drugs.

Asked if he regretted what he had done since winning the jackpot, Mr Carroll said: “When you give nine million pounds to a 19-year-old what do you think is going to happen?”

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/norfolk/8692475.stm

Published: 2010/05/19 17:10:38 GMT

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Originally published by the Scottish Sun.

By Nick Sharpe on 19 May 2010

A CLEANER told last night how she sparked a Lotto frenzy – after wrongly believing she had bagged a stunning £84million jackpot.

Sadie McGhee, 65, almost collapsed with shock after reading out her “winning” EuroMillions ticket numbers to stunned workmates.

Within minutes, news of her amazing “windfall” had spread like wildfire round one of Scotland’s biggest hospitals.

And soon Sadie’s name was cropping up on internet chatrooms as word got round she was now apparently mega-rich.

It was only after the shaken gran was driven home that her hubby John, 67, checked the ticket and revealed she had won NOTHING – because she’d been looking at a RESULTS slip.

But last night the couple insisted they are relieved they didn’t win the record sum.

Sadie explained her phone had not stopped ringing, people approached her in the streets to ask about it and her grandkids were hassled at school. Sadie, of Mount Florida, Glasgow, said: “Honestly, I am glad I didn’t won. The feeling of thinking I had won £84million was awful.”

Retired joiner John added: “It really worried me that I might answer the door to someone with a knife demanding money.”

Sadie told how the frenzy started during a canteen debate at the city’s Victoria Infirmary.

She said: “Some of the girls I work with had heard no one had claimed the big win from Friday’s Euro lottery.
“So I said it might be me, and fished out of my bag what I thought was my ticket.

“They read out the numbers – and I started panicking.

“I honestly thought I’d won. I was shouting and screaming.

“I lost my voice over it and I was sick with excitement.

“I was in such a state that my boss had to take me home.When I got in I just shouted, ‘John, we’ve won the lottery.’

“He took the ticket off me, looked at it, then said, ‘Don’t be so daft.’John told me I had been looking at the wrong slip.

“But I don’t know how the mistake was made. There must have been another seven people in the hospital who checked it and they all thought it was a winner.”

Camelot confirmed this week that a UK-based winner has now come forward to claim the bumper £84,451,321 prize, which is Britain’s biggest ever.

They would not confirm if the cash was paid to an individual or a syndicate.

But Sadie – who has bought a ticket for every EuroMillions draw – told how she is now relieved not to be picking up a cheque for £84million.

She said: “At the point when I believed I had won, I kept thinking about what a ridiculous amount of money it was.

“It was a horrible feeling and I didn’t like it. I never want to feel that again.

“Anyway, I have everything I want.
“If I had won, I would have given the money away.”

Sadie explained that three years ago she bagged £2,000 with five Lotto numbers.

But she gave the cash to her family and friends.

Hubby John added: “At the end of the day, this was a lot of fuss over nothing.”

nicksharpe@the-sun.co.uk

http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2978370/What-a-lott-Ive-gotnot-Gran-in-84m-jackpot-mix-up.html

> Footnote: Camelot report the real winner of the top prize has requested to stay anonymous.

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Originally posted to Google news.

(UKPA)

A UK ticketholder could be celebrating a record £84.4 million windfall after staking a claim on the EuroMillions jackpot.

National Lottery officials will be able to pay out the prize when the banks open if the claim is verified.

The winner of the country’s biggest lottery jackpot came forward on Sunday.

A spokesman for Camelot said: “We are looking forward to welcoming the lucky ticketholder to our millionaires club which is already 2,400 strong.”
No details have been released about the winner of Friday’s draw.

It is not known if the winning ticket belongs to an individual or a syndicate and they can decide whether or not to go public.

The ticketholder has been catapulted into first place on the National Lottery Rich List, ahead of Nigel Page and Justine Laycock, who won a £56 million EuroMillions jackpot in February.
Friday’s £84.4 million prize means the winner would immediately become the 789th richest person in the country, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2010.

Based on figures in the survey released last month, they are just shaded by pop star Robbie Williams and Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who are both worth £85 million.
But they are wealthier than the likes of former James Bond actor Sir Sean Connery (£80 million), rock legend Jimmy Page (£75 million) and comedian and actor Rowan Atkinson (£70 million).

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Originally posted on the BBC News website on 14 May 2010.

Time is running out for a Northern Ireland winner to claim a lottery prize worth more than £600,000.

The unclaimed prize was won in the EuroMillions draw on Friday 11 December.

The winning numbers were 20, 41, 43, 44 and 46. The Lucky Star numbers were two and nine. The deadline for claiming the prize expires at 1730 BST on 9 June.

If the £616,198 is not claimed the money will be given to charity.

A National Lottery spokesperson said: “We are desperately keen to find the mystery ticket holder – the prize could really make a huge difference to their life.”

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/northern_ireland/8681739.stm

Published: 2010/05/14 05:47:00 GMT

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This post is copied from Jersey-on-Sale.com and covers a subject I have yet to cover so, thank you, Johnny Sorrento.

The gordo primitiva is a Spanish Lottery which within the El Gordo theme acts as a very important and influential part. The Thursday draw of El gordo de la primitive draws a millions of lottery ticket purchases through out Spain each and very week.

The warm and beautiful Spanish Summer from the stifling heat of Alicante to the cooler breezier north of Asturias provides a romantic and colourful backdrop to one of the greatest lottery branded vehicles in the world, gordo primitiva. The spectacle of this draw acts as an important and rudimentary forerunner for the main monthly gordo primitiva draws. The series and progression of gordo primitiva manifests it self through fantastic cash prize funds and themed lottery draws such as el gordo de navidad, sorteo extraordinario and of course that post Christmas favourite El Nino.

Just a few words about El Nino as it is central to the gordo primitive series. The ability of the nation to provide a staggering cash prize fund after one of the greatest lotteries in the world just one month before is remarkable.

This is for several reasons:

1. Gordo Primitiva is a massive lottery brand.

2. El gordo form a cultural perspective is engrained and part of the Spanish social fabric.

3. Christmas is an expensive time anyway, yet El Nino still caters for the volume and excitement of a national and internationally renowned lottery.

Therefore, gordo primitiva merits the respect, dignity and position it holds among the Spanish Lottery genere, not of course withstanding the stature it hold among other great European lottery organisations such as the Euromillions, UK Nationallottery and the Italian Superenalotto.

So from the playing and lottery gaming public perspective the gordo primitive actually provides fantastic value as each main ticket or billet can be divided in to decimos or one tenths. This encourages groups of people to purchase tickets together. The main gordo primitiva draw takes place in the month of December and will definitely create many millionaires.

It gives the world the opportunity to await a fantastic and marvellous event, televised internationally, and promotes the Spanish Lottery culture.

Johnny Sorrento is an affiliate with the global e-Lottery syndicate system. Come and check out the considerable odds advantage you receive when playing in a EuroMillions Syndicate or El Gordo Syndicate with e-Lottery.

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Perhaps You Dream Of A Specific Car

On 14 August 2010, Wilton House near Salisbury will reverberate to the sound of a range of the world’s most exotic automobiles. Jay Broom (known as Jakaybi) and the Earl of Pembroke are organising the second Supercar Day in aid of charity. In excess of one hundred invited supercars will line up on the lawns of the house.

Many of the members of the public who will come to look at and listen to these beautiful pieces of engineering will undoubtedly dream of owning such vehicles themselves. Many will rely on winning a lottery to do so.

Of course how you react to winning a lottery depends on your background. Recently Anthony Castro won $250 000 in the Idaho state lottery. At the age of 19 he was shot in the head in New York, moved to Idaho after the September 11 attacks and lived from a homeless shelter for a time. He then got married, had children and then divorced. He said, “After so much turmoil in my life, and loss of my mother a year ago, this is truly a blessing for me. My dreams, everyone’s dreams, are coming true.” Perhaps it’s not surprising therefore that he has donated some of the jackpot to his church, set up a trust fund for his daughter and invested the rest.

On the other hand, recent record European lottery winners, Nigel Page and Justine Laycock knew what to do with their substantial winnings. They have bought a four million pound mansion in the country and have gifted their four bedroomed house and a new car to Denise Kelso, the cleaner who kept their house spotless for years. Denise now cleans Nigel and Justines new house.

Then again you have Jennifer Southall of Newport in Gwent. A cinema supervisor, Jennifer won £8 million in the British National Lottery and is determined to enjoy the experience. She has already given up her job, will give up her council house in favour of a big house with a swimming pool, driving lessons, a “pretty red car,” and a few luxury holiday for her and her family (once they have applied for passports).

The impact on her life was immediate. Ms Southall said, “When I went to have my ticket checked, Camelot gave me a bottle of champagne to help me celebrate, but I just went home and ordered a pizza.” The next day she and her mother went shopping and spent £1500. But do not think the money has entirely changed her thinking: “I still haven’t opened the champagne – I have never tasted real champagne in my life,” Ms Southall noted.

Most winners of the UK lottery draw take advice and are fairly conservative with their money but many still have at least one extravagance they want to satisfy. One of the advantages of playing the British National Lottery is it gives you the opportunity to dream, to think about what you want out of life. Perhaps if you are lucky enough to be at Wilton House on 14 August you might allow yourself a little fantasy. Who knows if it might not come true?

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