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Never too late to have a massive lottery win

no-reply@lottohideout.co.uk (Claudine) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:03:01 +0000

Never give up hope of a big lottery win, as a news story of a 97 year old lottery winner last week proved that it is never too late to be a massive lottery winner. The lucky winner Nguyen Van Het from Vietnam is 97 years old and has won 7.6 billion dong which equates to about £260,000, which in Vietnam is an absolute fortune. Het was able to purchase 6 Tay Ninh Province lottery tickets with money given to him by a neighbour as a present called ‘Lucky Money’ in celebration of the Lunar New Year or Tet.

Giving money away to well wishers

Nguyen Van Het went to bed and dreamt that he would win the lottery little knowing that this particular dream would come true – with each of the six tickets being a winner. Unfortunately the lottery win did not bring out the best characteristics in the local neighbourhood with one neighbour who was meant to be helping Het to check his numbers telling him he had only won a small amount of cash and a huge mob surrounding his home asking for some of the money. The news of the lottery win quickly spread amongst the locals in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 11 and Het was rapidly seen handing out money to all the well wishers until the authorities and a close neighbour stepped in to stop him giving away all of his new found wealth. The quick thinking of the authorities and neighbour meant that Het was able to safely deposit the remainder of the lottery fortune around 5 billion dong (£172,250) into a local bank.

‘Luckily’ local people are keen to help him to spend lottery cash!

The reason for so much attention by local people on Het’s big lottery win is because the average annual income per person is only £655. Sadly many of the people who had asked for handouts from Het claiming to be relatives are believed to be complete strangers and were guilty of taking advantage of the elderly man’s kindness. Nguyen Van Het is quoted in an article in the Daily Mail as admitting that he will ‘have a lot of trouble spending the money before he dies’. It seems that the local ‘well wishers’ in Ho Chi Minh City were all maybe trying to save him from this trouble!

Body of £20million lottery winner found buried under concrete slab

no-reply@lottohideout.co.uk (Claudine) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:56:33 +0000

A £20million American lottery winner who has been missing for nine months was recently found buried under a concrete slab, the apparent victim of a callous shooting. Abraham Shakespeare went missing without trace last year but family did not report him missing immediately because they believed he had gone on a jaunt to the Caribbean. A tropical destination was sadly not where Mr Shakespeare ended up, instead his badly decomposed remains were found under the slab in the grounds of a home belonging to a boyfriend of a close female friend.

Lottery jackpot did not bring victim happiness

Mr Shakespeare’s big lottery win had sadly not found him happiness and he had often lamented on how miserable he was to his brother Robert Brown, saying on many occasions that 'I'd have been better off broke.' Mr Shakespeare has been happy to share his good fortune with others and had lived the lottery lifestyle by buying a large expensive house. None of this however made the ex-assistant trucker happy. Mr Shakespeare aged 47, was not well educated and also had been in trouble with the police prior to his big lottery win.

Woman accused of murder was financial advisor to deceased

Dorice "DeeDee" Moore has been charged in connection with the shooting of Abraham Shakespeare. The 37 year old suspect was the financial advisor to the dead lottery winner, and it has been reported that she had transferred many of the dead man’s assets to her name. Elizabeth Walker, the deceased man’s mother regarded Moore as a friend of the family and has been quoted as saying in connection with her arrest "I can hardly explain how I feel. It really hurts." Moore herself has tried to implicate others in the murder of Mr Shakespeare including a local drug dealer, a local attorney and even her own 14 year old son. As yet Moore is the only person who has been charged in connection with Mr Shakespeare’s murder.

National Lottery reveal Euromillions £56k Lottery winners

no-reply@lottohideout.co.uk (Claudine) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:34:02 +0000

The big Euromillions lottery winners have just had their identities unveiled by the National Lottery HQ Camelot, the extremely lucky couple Nigel Page and Justine Laycock from Cirencester, Gloucestershire have just scooped a £56 million win making them the biggest lottery winners in the UK. Mr Page was clearly experiencing a run of good luck as he had already won £55 with a lotto ticket, then when he logged on to his National lottery account on Saturday morning to check the Euromillions lottery result he found that he had won half the massive £113 million Euromillions jackpot too.

Big win not likely to keep Nigel’s feet on ground

Mr Page age 43 had been jokingly boasting of his possible lottery success to his daughter that morning at breakfast little knowing that in fact he had become the UK’s biggest lottery winner overnight. Mr Page who is a daredevil sky diver in his spare time and his partner of 8 years Ms Laycock intend to use the money wisely and hope to give back something to the local community as well as their friends and family with their massive Euromillions win. Mr Page’s one personal extravagance will be to build a Sky Diving centre complete with wind tunnel to help with his sky-diving hobby, but he and his partner intend to build a house and take a much needed holiday with some of the cash too.

Bacon sandwiches to celebrate

Mr Page who is in property maintenance and Ms Laycock an estate agent, celebrated their record breaking lottery win with bacon sandwiches with their three children in a local Waitrose café whilst they waited for representatives from the National Lottery HQ, Camelot – however in their dreams they had imagined celebrating a big lottery win slightly differently with exploding confetti and ticker tape. The celebrations are not likely to stop for sometime for the UK’s biggest lottery winners as they decide how to spend their new found fortune. The ecstatic couple propose to make a few purchases include a BMW car and a pony for daughter Ella aged 12, and a rather more unusual purchase could include a tarantula spider.

www.national-lottery.co.uk

National Lottery and the 2012 Olympics

no-reply@lottohideout.co.uk (Claudine) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:59:44 +0000

Many National Lottery players may not be aware that when they take part in the weekly lottery games - whether online lottery or tickets purchased instore - that they will be helping the creation of five of the UK’s sporting venues that will be used in the 2012 Olympics. In fact an amazing £2.2 billion will be raised by National Lottery ticket sales, and £750 million will be directly from special National Lottery 2012 games.

Building venues and athletes with National Lottery cash

The National Lottery good causes cash is helping to build a special Hockey and Aquatics centre, a handball arena, velopark and of course not forgetting the Olympic Stadium. It isn’t only the venues that are being built using National Lottery Good Causes cash, athletes themselves are also benefitting from money raised by National Lottery ticket sales. Some of the athletes being helped are big names such as Ben Ainslie and Sir Chris Hoy but others are lesser known sports stars of the future. The one thing they have in common is that they all receive backing from National Lottery players for training, coaching and medical support etc. Without this aid some would be unable to take part in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. There are over 1400 athletes currently being assisted this way and all are hoping to achieve medals in the London 2012 Olympic games.

Big pat on the back for National Lottery game players

So come on all you National Lottery players, fulfil your philanthropic side - Buy a lottery ticket and give yourself a big pat on the back for helping to make our athletes fit to compete and just as importantly helping to build the venues that all the nations will be competing in.

www.national-lottery.co.uk

76 year old cabbie named as £26m Euromillions lottery winner

no-reply@lottohideout.co.uk (Claudine) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:18:45 +0000

News of the British Euromillions £26.1m lottery winner have now been announced and Lotto Hideout can reveal that George Sturt aged 76 from Dorking in Surrey is the lucky winner. George who refuses - even in spite of his big win – to give up his day job as a taxi driver because he enjoys the job so much -shares the win with his three children, Gary, Colin and Teresa. Widower Mr Sturt plans to give a lot of his share of the cash to charitable causes including cancer research as his wife Maureen sadly died 6 months ago after battling with cancer.

Family thought it was a joke

His grown up children could not believe that they had won the jackpot when Mr Sturt first informed them as he is, reportedly well known by all the family as a bit of a joker. The siblings and Mr Sturt pay£4 each per week to participate in the lottery never thinking for one minute that they would be the lucky winners of such a huge sum. Each one of the family members will receive over £6m each which should provide sufficient funds to organise a big family knees up which is now to be planned to celebrate their good fortune.

Happens to other people …..

The part time cabbie has eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren who are also likely to benefit from the family’s new found wealth. Mr Stur’s son Colin, a builder is quoted in the Sun as saying “I am honestly still in a state of shock.
"This sort of thing happens to other people and not people like us - it is absolutely crazy.
And "It will be difficult to go back to building houses when you can afford to buy any house that you want."

Staff at Lotto Hideout are all moving to lucky Ilford!

no-reply@lottohideout.co.uk (Claudine) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:36 +0000

Estate agents in Ilford must be doing a roaring trade with prospective new residents who are looking to win the lottery? The reason for a possible interest in a move to Ilford in Essex is because according to the National Lottery players with the IG postcode are more likely to win big than any other area in the UK. The results of the latest poll carried out by the National Lottery highlights how lucky the residents of Ilford have been in the National Lottery since the last results were released in 2006. One in 6,722 of tickets sold to Ilford resident result in a major lotto, lottery or scratchcard jackpot win, the national average however is one ticket in 7,366 ticket sales ending in a big win.

Second choice for a move could be Newcastle!

Second place in the National Lottery luckiest town poll is Newcastle with a still pretty impressive one in 6,972 tickets sold in the NE postal district resulting in a big lottery win. Slipping slightly from first place in the last poll to third this year is Medway with a still respectable one in 6,972 ticket holders scooping an impressive lottery jackpot win. The full details of the National Lottery luckiest places is told in the News of the World, where it is revealed that Kent is actually pretty lucky too as they have no fewer than three postcodes that are featured in the ten luckiest towns list.

Maybe we will just all stay at home and see if our luck is in

Readers however will be pleased to know that even if they don’t live in one of the top ten of the luckiest towns that no matter where they live that they are still just as likely to be as lucky as the next person, as there have been approximately 20 millionaires for each postcode since 1994. During this time there have been an amazing £36 billion in jackpot prizes paid out to lucky lottery winners.

Euromillions £26m lottery winner is UK resident

no-reply@lottohideout.co.uk (Claudine) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:05:53 +0000

The lucky Euromillions numbers called on Friday made one UK resident £26 million richer. The huge Euromillions jackpot prize is in fact split between a lottery player in France and the British player, and this magnificent lottery win is the fourth largest in UK lottery history. The numbers on Friday were 11, 26, 29, 49, 50 and as yet the lucky winner is unknown. The National Lottery spokesperson said of the massive Euromillions win "We are delighted to have another huge Euromillions winner here in the UK, following so closely to last November's record breaking jackpot winners”.
"We have plenty of champagne on ice and look forward to welcoming the ticket holder into the millionaires' club.

One winner or a syndicate?

Of course this latest big UK lottery win comes hot on the heels of Les and Sam Scadding, regular readers will remember our article of early November last year when it was still unknown the identities of the winners of the £45.5 million lottery fortune. News of the big win gets us all in the Lotto Hideout office wondering who the winner or winners might be, is it a syndicate or one lucky winner? Whichever it is felt that Monday will provide more news as reports state that the winners has come forward and is currently going through the National Lottery verification process.

Legs Eleven the luckiest UK Euromillions number?

One thing that both of the big Euromillions winners have in common is the number 11 as both sets of winning Euromillions numbers included number eleven, so if you are thinking of having a go yourself next Friday then selecting this number might help in the luck department!
www.national-lottery.co.uk

Benefit cheat who won £154k on lottery spared jail

no-reply@lottohideout.co.uk (Claudine) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:20:43 +0000

A benefit fiddling lottery winner has been spared going to jail even though she has been found guilty of theft. The guilty woman - named in the Daily Mail as Sandra Bellamy - won £154,000 playing the National Lottery back in 2006, however she continued to claim financial support from various agencies including housing benefit, income support and council tax benefit. The total that is believed to be involved in the benefits scam is £14,814.11, what makes the crime worse is that the woman had three properties in Bournemouth worth over half a million pound, a privately educated child, a £30k divorce settlement, and received a reported £3k per month in rental fees for her property portfolio and had £16,000 of savings prior to her big lottery win.

Six month jail term suspended

The judge, Samuel Wiggs imposed a suspended sentence on the thieving National lottery winner saying that “A few years ago this would have resulted in a custodial sentence, but guidelines have changed”. The changes to the sentencing guidelines according to the Mail resulted in her receiving a six month jail sentence suspended for two years plus a 200 hour community service order. In the 52 year old lotto winner’s defence Bellamy had started to pay back some of the cash that she had previously claimed, according to an article in the local newspaper ‘ she was repaying £50 a month to the DWP and Bournemouth council but still owed £13,200’.

Did lottery win make a better life for Ms Bellamy?

Winning the lottery surely should not only bring a healthier bank balance but also a world away from money problems. Most people who think about winning the lottery would use the money to make life a little better for themselves, their family and friends, they would not think first of how to help themselves ………. to tax payers cash!

Lottery scratch game site Scratch2Cash announce €100k winner

no-reply@lottohideout.co.uk (Claudine) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:32:29 +0000

Lottery scratch game site, Scratch2Cash have announced the wonderful news that they have just paid out €100k to their first big winner of 2010. Lottery Hideout love to hear about lottery, lotto and scratch game winners, but the winners we like to hear of most are those that win large sums of cash. Of course a little bit of good luck is something that is great news at any time, but those big sums of cash that get collected by a few lucky individuals are what makes most of us indulge in playing at lottery and gaming sites in the first place. Scratch2Cash are one of the first this year to announce a big winner with the announcement that Ivan C, a player in France was the lucky winner of a massive €100,000 at their site.

Ivan C really could not believe his luck

Ivan C has certainly had a great start to the New Year and the big €100k lotto jackpot prize was won playing the Super Chance game at Scratch2Cash for the paltry price of €10. Not much of an outlay for the fortunate winner, so a really good return on investment! Scratch2Cash proudly boast of their total payout to players in December of €29,329,108.40, which no doubt made for a much happier Christmas period for a lot of the Scratch2Cash lottery scratchcard site players. For Ivan C. the fortunate win on the Scratch2Cash Super Chance game took some time to sink in, in fact he sat in front of the computer screen for about a quarter of an hour trying to take in the flashing image telling him that he has scooped the jackpot. He said in an interview with the team at Scratch2Cash“At first I thought it was €1,000, but after looking closer I thought I saw € 10,000. I began to count the number of zeros after number 1: there were five. I had won € 100,000!

Non members who are looking for the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of the rather blessed jackpot winner at the Scratch2Cash site, can join and receive a free £5 or €5 welcome gift to start playing at the site.

www.scratch2cash.com

Lottery winner leaves wife and does bunk with share of £19m

no-reply@lottohideout.co.uk (Claudine) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:30:37 +0000

Most married couples who were lucky enough to win a lottery jackpot would use the cash to make a better life for themselves and their family, looking forward to the adventures that their new found lottery jackpot winnings could give them. Not so for a couple in America, Donna Campbell is about to be evicted from her home even though her husband Arnim Ramdass has a share of a $19m lottery win, and the reason for Donna’s dire situation is that her husband has disappeared with the lottery winnings.

Hired private detectives to hunt for husband

Arnim won his big lottery jackpot whilst playing the Florida Lottery in 2007 and tried to hide it from his wife immediately. Donna Campbell was forced to try to secure a portion of the winnings through the courts as Arnim was not about to let her have a cent of his lottery jackpot. Unfortunately for Donna the cad disappeared before the papers could be served on her errant husband and as such no further court action could be carried out. Mr Ramdass has completely disappeared and although his estranged wife has borrowed money to hire private detectives no trace of the lottery winner can be found.

Eviction imminent

Mr Ramdass is a bit of a sweetheart as not only did he disappear with the multi million dollar lottery win but he also stopped paying the mortgage, cleared the furniture from the house that the couple had previously shared and for good measure removed the washing machine and tumble dryer. Unless the lottery winner can be found so that he can help with the mortgage payments then Donna will be evicted, which is ironic considering that she should be a very wealthy woman. Donna said of the lottery win "Half the money is mine. Legally, we are still married".