Winning online contests and lottery

FORMER Tatts chief Duncan Fischer was unfit to oversee a suburban chook raffle, let alone a multi-billion-dollar lottery licence tender, State Parliament heard yesterday.

A number of email spammers couldn’t be bothered to do basic research on a British colloquialism, and tried to fool users into thinking they’d won a “Postcode Lottery”.

The company that has provided betting technology to the Ohio Lottery for more than two decades is protesting losing its contract to a competitor. ideastream®’s Kymberli Hagelberg has the story.

Mark Weir won a £2.7 million (US $5.3 million) Lotto jackpot, and then told the members of his former lottery pool, “You won’t get a penny”.

There was no jackpot winner in the Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday, sending the prize to $16 million for Friday’s lottery.

When it came to buying a holiday place, the world was Stan and Pat Cable’s oyster - after all, they’d just scooped £4million on the lottery. Should they splash out on a villa in Florida, an apartment in New York, an oceanside hideaway in the Seychelles?

The company that’s on the verge of losing the lucrative contract to run Ohio Lottery games to an upstart competitor filed a formal protest with the lottery commission yesterday, claiming that lottery officials unfairly lowered the bar to let the competitor bid.

MICROSOFT’S CHUM YAHOO has sued a group of unknown lottery spammers, even if it is highly unlikely the miscreants responsible will ever be in court.