Lottery scratchcard winner ended up losing

March 23, 2010 by  
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An Arizona woman who thought she had won $1,000 playing a lottery scratchcard was left feeling desperately unhappy as opposed to jumping for joy as the lottery scratchcard winner ended up losing. Sheri Galvez, from Arizona went to collect her lottery winnings but instead of leaving with her cash she was given a cheque for $0.00 and was told that the money was reclaimed by the state to pay for unsettled traffic tickets and to recover overpaid unemployment benefits.

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Lottery scratchcard gingerbread house

December 11, 2009 by  
Filed under Lottery News

As a unique and novel way to promote lottery ticket sales a Cigar Box store in Pennsylvania, US has built a lottery scratchcard gingerbread house out of $5,000 worth of Pennsylvania Lottery scratchcards and is offering it for sale. Some of the proceeds from the sale of this lottery scratchcard gingerbread house will be given to a charity chosen by the purchaser of the scratchcard house.

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Wrong lottery scratchcard was worth one million pounds

November 12, 2009 by  
Filed under Lottery Winners

A lucky woman from Suffolk decided to buy a lottery scratchcard in her local supermarket, only to be given the wrong one. However this mistake is one that the woman will be glad that she didn’t challenge as the wrong lottery scratchcard was worth one million pounds!

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