6/55 : NO WINNER
DATE : OCT.22, 2014
RESULT : 7-8-10-15-40-52
6/45 : NO WINNER
DATE : OCT.22, 2014
RESULT : 5-17-21-24-33-40
6/49
Draw date 10/23/14
Estimated Jackpot Prize P34M
6/42
Draw date 10/23/14
Estimated Jackpot Prize P17M
6/45
Draw date 10/24/14
Estimated Jackpot Prize P34M
6/55
Draw date 10/25/14
Estimated Jackpot Prize P30M
6/55 2 winners
Draw date 10/15/14
Jackpot Prize P30,940,932.00
Two lucky lotto bettors from Aparri, Cagayan and Castillejos, Zambales. are now millionaires after winning the jackpot of 6/55 ( 10/15/14 ) draw.
The bettors got the combination of 1-13-16-19-22-39 to win the jackpot worth P30.9 million or P15,470,466.00 each.
6/49 1 winner
Draw date 10/5/14
Jackpot Prize P90,126,700.00
A 67 years old retired taxi driver from Novaliches, Quezon city is now a millionaire after winning the jackpot of 6/49 ( 10/5/14 ) draw.
The bettor bought three lotto combinations worth P60.
One of the combinations was 6-11-13-29-43-48 to win the jackpot worth P90.1 million
He had been a lotto bettor since 1995.
No Ticket No Payment.
A former overseas Filipino worker failed to claim his P12-million lottery prize after his daughter used a flat iron to smooth out the crumpled ticket.
Antonio Failon Mendoza of Calaca, Batangas claims that he won P12 million in the October 2 draw.
He was supposed to go to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) to claim his prize when his grandchild got hold of his ticket and crumpled it.
Out of fear that they would not be able to claim the ticket, his daughter decided to iron out the ticket.
However, a big part of the ticket got burned, making it useless and impossible to read.
According to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), they follow specific guidelines in claiming prices, which includes a "no ticket, no payment" policy. The ticket should also be readable.
PCSO General Manager Ferdinand Roxas II said they imposed stricter guidelines to discourage fake claimants from trooping to their office.
Meanwhile, the outlet where Mendoza bought the ticket confirmed that a certain ticket with the winning combination was bought from them.
PCSO is also looking at other possible ways that Mendoza can claim his prize.
Cash turned into stone.
It was a literal case of trying to “iron out a problem” but instead of “solving” the problem of a crumpled ticket, the hot iron defaced the lucky numbers of a Lotto bettor who hit the P12.391 million jackpot.
Thus, the defaced ticket could not be “read” and validated by the lotto machine of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.
That’s the sad fate of the winning Lotto ticket of Antonio Failon Mendoza whose lucky numbers – 09-21-31-36-40-41 – matched 6/42’s winning numbers with a jackpot prize of P12.391.60 million, drawn Oct. 2.
Unfortunately, a grandchild had crumpled Mendoza’s lotto ticket and another grandchild tried to save it by ironing the creases.
The attempt to iron out the problem burned the ticket’s thermal paper and its numbers and security features no longer became recognizable.
1-IN-5.25 M ODDS
“Pera na naging bato pa,” which loosely means “cash turned into stone,” must have been blurted by the winner for he had hurdled the odds of one-in-5.25 million which each bettor faces in hitting the 6/42 jackpot.
But his fate took an unfortunate twist. As his story goes, he was about to claim the jackpot when one of his grandchildren got hold of his ticket and crumpled it. An in-law suggested putting it under the iron to straighten it out.
Hearing this, another grandchild ironed the P12.3-million piece of thermal paper and it got burned, its numbers and security features no longer recognizable.
‘NO TICKET, NO PAYMENT’
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has a strict policy being implemented in all cases: “no ticket, no payment.” In this case, the ticket could not be read by the lotto machine which should validate the winning numbers.
General Manager Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II, PCSO acting chairman, said the PCSO has a policy that without the ticket, the agency will not be making payment.
He said the supposed winner came to the agency on Friday and presented his ticket for validation. “His ticket was ironed, so we don’t know if he really won or not.
We have a policy of ‘no ticket, no payment’,” said Rojas.
If a bettor has the winning ticket, then its security features must be readable by the lotto machine, he added.
“It is like money or check, if the money or check is mutilated, you are not going to accept it,” he said.
SECOND EXAMINATION
But Roxas is not closing the door on the ticket’s fate. He said their legal and technical staff will conduct a second examination on Mendoza’s ticket to see if its security features can still be read by the lotto validation machine.
He said a crumpled ticket that is still machine-readable does not pose any problem. “Even if it is crumpled or torn but readable, there is no problem.”
REMINDER TO BETTORS
He reminded bettors to read the back of the lotto ticket which states that it must not bear any alteration or mutilation and owners must sign it right away, he said.
Rojas said that many bogus tickets have been presented to the PCSO as winning tickets, but none had succeeded in claiming the jackpot because they were not machine-readable.
“What happened (to Mendoza) is a rare case,” he said. “My message to our patrons is to take care of their tickets. Claiming their winnings is very easy as long as the ticket is in order and in normal condition.”
ATTEMPTS TO WIN
Four years ago, a woman attempted to claim the Grand Lotto 6/55’s P741.17-million jackpot drawn on November 29, 2010.
She claimed she was the winner but could not present the ticket because that was with her grandson.
The real winner, though, was a 60-year-old Filipino working in the United States, who claimed the bonanza over a week later.
A PCSO insider said there were many cases of fraudulent attempts to claim jackpot prizes but none had succeeded. “Some ‘enterprising’ people present tickets made by computers, cut and pasted from images of the original tickets.
Others even place a bet on the same winning numbers the day after the numbers are announced, and they present those as winning tickets, he said.
Source Manila Bulletin
By: Edd K.Usman
