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#41 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 09 August 2022 - 12:12 PM

Nanaimo man wins ‘life-changing’ $1 million playing Lotto 6/49

 

James Honeyman and his wife planning dream vacations

 

https://www.nanaimob...ing-lotto-6-49/



#42 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 03 February 2023 - 10:38 AM

18-year-old Ontario woman becomes youngest $48M jackpot winner – on her 1st lottery ticket: OLG

 

 

“I just turned 18 and my grandfather suggested I buy a lottery ticket for fun,” Lamour said. “When I went to the store, I wasn’t sure what to ask for because I had never bought a ticket before, so I called my dad who told me to buy a LOTTO 6-49 Quick Pick.

 

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When it comes to what to do with the money, Lamour said she plans on finishing her studies as she is in university and wants to plan some summer adventures.

 

 

 

https://globalnews.c...oungest-winner/

 

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TLC should sign her for a TV show that follows her for two decades.  "Finish her studies".  I laugh at that a bit.  Her new job likely has nothing to do with her studies.  Her new part-time job is to learn how to take care of her own money.  And security.

 

A GIC today pays over $2.5M per year on that.  She does not need a conventional job.


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#43 aastra

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Posted 03 February 2023 - 11:37 AM

Back in the day there were lottery conspiracy theorists who suggested the big winners would eventually be entirely anonymous or otherwise wearing masks or disguises. Funny how that worked out.

 

For the large prizes the winners typically say blah things like "I plan to keep working" or "I plan to retire soon" or "I plan to pay off my mortgage" or "I plan to go on a vacation" or "I plan to have a party", etc. In other words, they're supposed to be big lottery winners who now have the financial freedom to divorce themselves from the system, and yet their ambitions are to remain entrenched in the system just like before. Winning $25 million seems to provide the ideal opportunity for remaining exactly the same way you always were, only more so.

 

Don't get me started re: the issue of the same people winning multiple large prizes over the years. Amazing coincidences, for sure. Heck, it's amazing that anyone who wins $25 million would ever set foot in a convenience store again and bother to purchase another lottery ticket.

 

(full disclosure: I'm quite skeptical about the legitimacy of state-run lotteries)



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Posted 03 February 2023 - 11:38 AM

 

(full disclosure: I'm quite skeptical about the legitimacy of state-run lotteries)

 

Full disclosure: I'm quite skeptical about the legitimacy of any gambling operation, period, but especially when the state is running it.


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Posted 03 February 2023 - 11:41 AM

Full disclosure: I'm quite skeptical about the legitimacy of any gambling operation, period, but especially when the state is running it.

 

We all know that those who win the lottery and then carted off to a remote Island and their organs are extracted and sold!

 

A very high % of people who win lottery jackpots have very little left after 10 years.



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Posted 03 February 2023 - 11:49 AM

 

A very high % of people who win lottery jackpots have very little left after 10 years.

 

^Those mysteriously evaporating winnings are also part of it. I suspect the smaller prizes are legitimate. I knew someone who won close to a million bucks. But I think the big prizes are not genuine. The super big prizes are quite laughable. In what reality would the powers that be allow a few private citizens to suddenly be controlling hundreds of millions of dollars out of the blue? In many jurisdictions the winner of a $300 million prize would instantly be the biggest player in politics, real estate, etc. It simply would never be allowed to happen. Not ever. Anyone who believes it is surely a fool, it's so utterly ridiculous.

 

Back in the day I remember somebody in the UK or somewhere tried to track some winners of larger prizes and the evidence seemed to suggest the winners had never received any big winnings. So either the actual prizes were much smaller than advertised, or the winners were just actors.



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Posted 03 February 2023 - 11:52 AM

But by all means we should do our duty as good citizens and keep buying those tickets. You know, to support the hospitals or whatever other infrastructure we're supposed to be supporting, even though they continue to claim financial crisis, shortage, and scarcity all the same.



#48 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 03 February 2023 - 12:12 PM

She should start a “who wants to marry a millionaire” type of The Bachlorette / Milf Island type of show.

#49 aastra

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Posted 03 February 2023 - 12:13 PM

 

In what reality would the powers that be allow a few private citizens to suddenly be controlling hundreds of millions of dollars out of the blue?

 

Just imagine if our VV forumers group ever wins the $1.5 billion ultra-crazy-ball lottery prize.



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Posted 03 February 2023 - 12:18 PM

I should say, there are no end of mainstream news stories re: lottery issues and controversies, "rigged" results, etc. These issues and questions have always been there. Casting doubt on the lottery narrative has been part of the lottery narrative right from the start. As with all such narratives they do tend to provide the way out for those who are willing to see it.



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Posted 03 February 2023 - 12:37 PM

I should say, there are no end of mainstream news stories re: lottery issues and controversies, "rigged" results, etc. These issues and questions have always been there. Casting doubt on the lottery narrative has been part of the lottery narrative right from the start. As with all such narratives they do tend to provide the way out for those who are willing to see it.

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Posted 03 February 2023 - 12:42 PM

British Columbia's Lottery Corporation has fired its CEO after an ombudsman's report this week found the corporation did not do enough to protect customers from possible retailer fraud.

 

"The Board of Directors of the British Columbia Lottery Corporation have decided a change of leadership for the organization is required. Therefore the Board has terminated Vic Poleschuk, President and CEO, effective immediately," said a statement from the corporation.

 

 

https://www.theglobe...article1086301/

 

 

 

Ms. Carter said she found 21 corporation retailers and their employees who were multiple winners over seven years. She pointed to one anonymous retailer who earned a total of $300,000 in 11 wins over five years, and another who claimed $10,000 every year for four years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2001—After validating two tickets at his usual Coboconk variety store, Bob Edmonds, 78, is given a free ticket, while the store clerk and her husband redeem the $250,000 jackpot. Edmonds repeatedly complains to lottery officials but is ignored until provincial police begin investigating. The clerk and her spouse are arrested in 2002 for theft and fraud, but charges are stayed. Edmonds sues the pair as well as the lottery corporation and wins both cases. Edmonds dies of cancer in April 2007, shortly after receiving a personal apology from a top lottery official.

 

 

2005—Orillia convenience store owner Hafiz Malik cashes a $5.75 million winning ticket for the 6/49 draw and is later charged with stealing the ticket. In June 2010, he is sentenced to a year in jail.

 

2011—The Ontario Lottery Corp. awards $12.5 million plus interest to the rightful winners of a 2003 Super 7 prize after they were cheated out of their prize. Three people are later charged with stealing lottery tickets from patrons of a Burlington variety store. One of those tickets, according to police, led to the $12.5-million Super 7 win.

 

2016—Frank Galella of Niagara Falls is fined a total of $325,000 and sentenced to two years less one day of house arrest for attempting to cheat other members of his lottery group out of their share of a $7-million jackpot by claiming his daughter, and not the group, had won the prize.

 

 

https://www.thestar....y-scandals.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Kamloops store clerk who won the lottery eight times over the past five years was convicted of fraud in 2001.

 

On May 30, after a scathing report from the B.C. ombudsman on possible retailer fraud, the B.C. Lottery Corp. released the names of 24 retailers known to have won multiple prizes over the past seven years.

Court records obtained by The Vancouver Sun show that one of those retailers — Kulvinder Kaur Bains, 43, an employee at the Halston Market in Kamloops — pleaded guilty in August 2001 to a charge of fraud under $5,000.

 

https://www.lotteryp...com/news/157415


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Posted 03 February 2023 - 12:45 PM

THE $30 MILLION LOTTERY SCAM
 
How a Michigan real-estate broker became convinced he had cracked the lottery—and how he tricked his investors into financing his scheme
 
 
 


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Posted 03 February 2023 - 12:48 PM

 

Would Snopes back you up on this?

 

Some good guidelines: never check what Snopes says and never care what Snopes says. Stay more focused on reality.



#55 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 03 February 2023 - 12:52 PM

Some time before the internet a whole bunch of BCLC employees were caught taking winning scratch or break-open tickets off the manufacturing line in Kamloops.


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#56 aastra

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Posted 03 February 2023 - 01:00 PM

This story includes a name that should raise eyebrows ("Tip-ton") among some other details. Many big news stories contain little cues like that, as if to advise the reader: "you know none of this is real, right?"

Reader's Digest

 

CNBC

 

For those who are interested, you might want to review countless news stories about winning tickets miraculously being rediscovered by their purchasers just before they were about to expire, or being found by total strangers in the trash or in an old book or wherever, and all of the other amazingly lucky or unlucky circumstances involving winning tickets.



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Posted 03 February 2023 - 01:15 PM

Yeah most of the scams seem to be from retailers etc.  Not from the lottery corporations.  I guess you mean in the US?



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Posted 03 February 2023 - 01:33 PM

Some good guidelines: never check what Snopes says and never care what Snopes says. Stay more focused on reality.

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#59 Matt R.

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Posted 03 February 2023 - 01:41 PM

Milf Island type of show.


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#60 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 03 February 2023 - 02:28 PM

A what now?

 

Sorry, MiLF Manor.

 

You know what is funny about MiLF Manor, the big "plot twist" is that the mothers will hook up with the sons of the other mothers.  Now imagine if this was flipped, it was about older men, and they were sexually paired with each others daughters.   Would not fly.



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