Fake lotto winner

What if I tell you now ...

Starting today all your expenses from your food to all your utilities and everything you need in your life is now fully paid up to December 31, 2011.

How would you feel about it?

Why I am telling you this ? because I found a story about a fake lotto winner who tells the entire store(example store SM megamall) that she won a $1.5 million (P70 million)in lottery prize and wanted to spend $500(P25,000.00) on everyone in the store.



Fake lotto winner causes riot at Burlington Coat Factory

Imagine you're minding your own business looking for a new coat at Burlington Coat Factory on an idle Tuesday afternoon when a stretch Hummer Limo rolls up and out jumps Linda Brown, 45, who tells the entire store that she won a $1.5 million lottery prize and wanted to spend $500 on everyone in the store.

Sounds a little too good to be true doesn't it? After all, stories like this only happen in the movies, but lo and behold, Brown began paying for purchase after purchase using her debit card while the store became crowded with friends and family who had been alerted to the once-in-a-lifetime deal. The Columbus Dispatch reports that by 2 p.m. word had spread to so many shoppers that the lines wove through the entire store!



But, and here's why you're reading this here instead of watching a Hallmark movie, after several thousands of dollars in charges Brown's debit card could take no more and she announced that she would go to the bank for more cash to continue the charity. And so she retreated to her stretch Hummer and left, never to be seen at Burlington Coat Factory again.

You see. Linda Brown didn't win the lottery; she wasn't even going to the bank. Brown's wallet was as empty as the shelves back at Burlington Coat Factory, which didn't sit too well with her driver who, upset over being stiffed the $900 rental fee, turned her into the police.

But, the story doesn't end here. Back at the Burlington Coat Factory in Columbus, Ohio police and store managers had to inform a large crowd of shoppers that their Good Samaritan coupon had expired. To say the least, those assembled for $500 worth of coats and clothing, desperately needed as winter showed its face in Ohio today, were not happy with that news.

Despite the police presence the store became unruly with reactions ranging from simply leaving un-purchased goods where they had been standing in line, forming a giant centipede of coats, to angry individuals who took to throwing what they couldn't get for free!

According to the Associated Press, 24 police officers were called in to respond to the crowd, including Detective Steven Nace described the scene to the AP, saying, "It looks like [Hurricane] Katrina went through the store."

After the police spoke to Linda Brown they began to realize that something wasn't right, especially after they found out about her past police issues which included several warrants. Brown's daughter blames her mother's behavior on lack of medication which keeps these "extravagant" actions in check. Brown is currently in jail awaiting a mental evaluation and will likely face charges for inciting a riot.

Source: Josh Smith

Philippines richest people

Remember when you were still a small child?

When you have this greatest feeling in the world.
When you wake up and you know that your Mom and Dad will just take care of your needs throughout the day and all you have to do is ask them?

Well, check the names below, one of them I think is your Mom or your Dad.

Philippines’ 40 richest

Rank Name Net worth ($mil)

1 Henry Sy $7.2Billion

2 Lucio Tan $2.8Billion

3 John Gokongwei Jr. $2.4Billion

4 Andrew Tan $2Billion

5 David Consunji $1.9Billion

6 Jaime Zobel de Ayala $1.7Billion

7 Enrique Razon Jr. $1.6Billion

8 Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. $1.4Billion

9 Roberto Ongpin $1.3Billion

10 George Ty $1.1Billion

11 Tony Tan Caktiong $1Billion

12 Iñigo & Mercedes Zobel $980Million

13 Emilio Yap $930Million

14 Andrew Gotianun $795Million

15 Jon Ramon Aboitiz $760Million

16 Beatrice Campos $685Million

17 Manuel Villar $620Million

18 Vivian Que Azcona $555Million

19 Robert Coyiuto Jr. $400Million

20 Mariano Tan $375Million

21 Alfonso Yuchengco $370Million

22 Enrique Aboitiz $310Million

23 Oscar Lopez $280Million

24 Jose Antonio $245Million

25 Eric Recto $200Million

26 Gilberto Duavit $190Million

27 Menardo Jimenez $185Million

28 Alfredo Ramos $180Million

29 Betty Ang $165Million

30 Felipe Gozon $163Million

31 Tomas Alcantara $160Million

32 Benjamin Romualdez $155Million

33 Wilfred Uytengsu Jr. $150Million

34 Manuel Zamora Jr. $145Million

35 Jacinto Ng Sr. $115Million

36 Frederick Dy $110Million

37 Luis Virata $100Million

38 Bienvenido Tantoco Sr. $95Million

39 Eugenio Lopez III $90Million

40 Edgar Sia II $85Million


Source: Forbes.com

Lotto forecasting Philippine style

Radio announcer nabbed for swindling, forecasting lotto result.


MANILA, Philippines - A block timer radio commentator in Opol, Misamis Oriental was arrested for swindling.

Suspect Joseph Labaya, known on air as “Jack Pineda” in local AM station “DXCO Philradio,” was caught in an entrapment operation launched by Misamis Oriental police.

Pineda was arrested after locals complained of his fraudulent scheme called “Suertres Club.”

In the scheme, listeners who want to receive a “daily forecast” of the winning Lotto numbers via SMS were required to pay a fee of not less than one thousand pesos.

PO2 Gil Agne Jr. said that some of the people convinced by Labaya ended up selling some of their belongings just to join the club.

So far, no one from the club has won the lottery.

Asked how he comes up with the daily forecast, Labaya said: “That's what you call perseverance. We analyze the numbers, we really work on it.”

Money order receipts addressed to Labaya amounting to more than P60,000 and a notebook containing an extensive member database were recovered from the suspect's possession.

The police believe that the integrity of his chosen medium is the reason Labaya was able to conduct his fraudulent act.

Labaya's 15-minute a day broadcast on the radio only costs him a blocktime fee of
P7,000 a month.

Source:
Primy Cane
ABS-CBN News Northern Mindanao

Lotto Jackpot winners

PCSO lotto news stories.

Batangueño bagong multi-milyonaryo sa Lotto
July 01, 2011

MANILA, Philippines - Isang Batangueño ang bagong naging milyonaryo makaraang mapanalunan nito ang P65 milyong jackpot prize sa Lotto noong Miyerkules.

Ayon kay PCSO general manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II, ang bagong mil­yonaryo at lone winner ay mula sa Lipa, Batangas makaraang mapanalunan nito ang P65-M na jackpot prize noong Miyerkules sa Grand Lotto 6/55. Ang kabu­uang panalo ng Batangueño ay P65,188,047.60.

Ang kumbinasyong napanalunan ng bagong millionaire ay 03-18-30-40-06-29 sa nakaraang 6/55 Grand Lotto noong June 29, 2011

Soure: Rudy Andal
Pilipino Star Ngayon



Driver, retiree, seaman, tailor claim lotto jackpot.

Tailor claims P18-million lotto prize

June 29, 2011, 4:28pm

MANILA, Philippines — A tailor from Iloilo City on Tuesday claimed from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) the P18,860, 232.60 he won in the June 23 6/42 lotto draw, PCSO General Manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas II said.

It was learned from the lone winner of the lotto jackpot is a 29-year-old father of two. He has been betting in the lotto for the past one year.


Last June 23, he bet P10 the combination 04-30-07-13-42-29. The man bought his ticket at a lotto outlet in GC Lumber, Real Estranzuela Street, Iloilo City.

According to the winner, he based the combination on the birthdays and ages of his family members.

As a new millionaire, the lotto winner plans to put up his own business and get an educational plan for his children.

Two bettors will share the P6,746,607 for the June 27 MegaLotto 6/45 draw. They are the latest winners under the said category, making them the 31st and 32nd MegaLotto 6/45 millionaires. The two winners have yet to claim their winnings.

Source: MITCH ARCEO
Manila Bulletin



MANILA, Philippines — Here are the latest feel-good stories coming out of the Philippine Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).

A 38-year-old company driver of Las Piñas, Metro Manila, bet the ages of his six children to win over P24-million from the Mega Lotto 6/45 jackpot last June 10.

A seaman from Zambales who snared the P12.6-million Lotto 6/42 jackpot last June 9 decides to honor his eight-month contract with a ship owner than immediately enjoy his winnings by breaching his contract.

And then there’s a retiree whose life would more likely begin at 57 after getting his hands on P15.7 million, the jackpot from Lotto 6/42 draw last May 31.

Lawyer Lauro A. Patiag, manager of the Internal Audit Department (PCSO-IAD), who usually interviews winners for their profile, said the driver who won works for an unnamed company

“They are really happy for their good fortune. The driver was particularly in a very happy mood. He said his first buy will be a house and lot because is just renting a house in Las Pinas,” said Patiag.

He said the company driver, who bets irregularly, used to have birth dates for his number combination, but replaced them a week ago with the ages of his children: 15-01-13-11-07-09.

It proved to be his lucky matched for the six-number winning set of the Mega Lotto 6/45 drawn last Friday.

Patiag said the driver placed the bet at a lotto outlet inside the South Supermarket in Muntinlupa City while on a company errand.

He added the driver told him he will put some amount for a business venture and save the rest for his children’s education.

Meanwhile, the seaman came down to Manila from Zambales last June 9 and bought his ticket before his flight on June 13 for his rendezvous with his ship, Patiag said.

The seaman stayed with a relative in Parañaque City where he placed bet combinations worth P60 in the Lotto 6/42 draw.

One of his six bets was based on ages and birth dates – 40-03-36-37-32-38, which gave him the P12.65- million bonanza.

Patiag said the seaman’s wife, who accompanied him to PCSO, asked her husband to forego his assignment because they now have the money to take it easy.

“But the seaman said he has to honor his eight months commitment with his ship or he could be in breach of contract. So, the couple will just put their winnings in the bank in the meantime,” said the PCSO official.

The third claimant is a male retiree who won the P15.7-M jackpot, also from 6/42 in the May 31 draw.

Patiag said the retiree, who has six children, placed a P10 Lucky Pick bet in Lapu-Lapu City, but only knew he won a week after when he had his ticket verified in a lotto outlet inside a mall.

Upon learning last Friday that he won in the 6/42 draw last May 31, he flew to Manila right away and claimed the jackpot, he said.

The retiree has no house and lot of his own, so that will be his first priority for his family, said Patiag. “He was really lucky: He has a single Lucky Pick bet and a very irregular bettor,” the PCSO-IAD head said.

As this developed, PCSO General Manager Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II said the Sunday draw of Super Lotto 6/49 with the winning set of 07-03-24-28-16-01 produced two winners who will share the P43,863,584.40 windfall at stake.

He said that from June 1 to 12 alone, the PCSO has made five lotto millionaires already, including the 60-year-old Bicolano carpenter who won Grand Lotto 6/55’s P356-million prize last June 1.

“We, in the PCSO, are happy that more bettors have realized their dreams for a better life through the lotto games, while they also help the agency’s charity mission for the needy and sick people,” said Rojas.

Patiag said there should be no doubt about lotto winners because they are featured in the media. On the other hand, the PCSO-IAD manager appealed to journalists not to
release any information that may put the winners’ life at risk.

Source:
By EDD K. USMAN
Manila Bulletin

A lotto Miracle

Do you believe in miracles?

Well, I found a beautiful story on how God made a miracle happened.


Atheist Converts After Mock Prayer to Win $1m Lottery is Answered.

A self-confessed atheist has become a believer after mocking God by sarcastically praying for his mother to win the lottery. However, his joke prayer was amazingly answered as the next day his mother won $1 million on the New York Lottery Sweet Million game.


Sal Bentivegna, 28, who did not previously believe in God, had sarcastically asked his mother to “ask your God for a million dollars”.

However, his mother Gloria Bentivegna, follows the Catholic faith, and staying true to her belief refused to ask God for such a thing.

Taking his joke further, Sal then prayed out aloud saying, “God, I don’t know if you’re real or not, but if you are there, please let my mother win a million dollars.”

He added, “If Jesus wants me to believe in him, that’s what he’ll do”.

The following day his mother bought a “Lotto Tree” of unscratched instant win tickets from her Church’s charity auction. Sal was then left absolutely stunned when he found out his mother had won a million.

Realizing that the odds of his mother winning were so farfetched, Sal has now become a firm believer.

He testified, “I can’t shrug off that Jesus had a hand in it.”

“No pun intended, but it was a Godsend,” he said.

Gloria Bentivegna, reflecting on what had happened, is thankful to God for her winnings, but even more thankful for her son’s conversion. She said: “'God performed two miracles, a true miracle.”

By winning New York’s Sweet Million game, Gloria Bentivegna will now receive $50,000 every year for the next 20 years.

Source:

Daniel Blake | Christian Post Contributor

Homeless man wins

MANILA, Philippines — The little guys (read: poor people), ever wishful of a better life, such as three square meals a day, a warm bed under a sturdy roof, education for their children, and more, continue to reap good fortune through the on-line lotteries of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) as another shanty dweller, 22, of Pasig City claimed Monday his P21,931,792.20 winnings from the Independence Day draw of Super Lotto 6/49.

Super Lotto's June 12 draw actually has two winners. They will share the P43,863,584.40 prize.

The other winner, who has yet to show up as of press time, bought his ticket in Cebu City, Cebu.

Heaven-sent or merely fortuitous, fact is the jackpot winner, another avid lotto aficionado, has now won his freedom from want and poverty via the PCSO, one of 6/49's 17 millionaires from January 1 to June 12, 2011.

It could be recalled the June 1 winner of Grand Lotto 6/55's P356 million, a Bicolano carpenter, also lived in a shanty in Las Piñas City with his wife and six children.

The auto-mechanic winner is married, with one child and lives with his small family in their shanty at an informal settlers' haven in Pasig City.

Now, he can afford a mansion to replace his make-shift dwelling! Predictably, his first priority out of his fortune is to buy a house and lot, a business, and for safekeeping in a bank.

More details from the Internal Audit Department (PCSO-IAD) headed by Manager Lauro A. Patiag showed that as the nation was busy celebrating the 113th Independence Day on Sunday, the auto mechanic was in Kapitolyo, Pasig City, placing a single P20 bet with birth dates for his number combination.

When he reported for work early Monday morning at the auto shop, he surreptitiously checked his bet from his boss's newspaper and saw his ticket matched the drawn combination of 07-03-24-28-16-01.

In spite of being overjoyed, he controlled his emotions and kept quiet about his luck.

Source:

Manila Bulletin
By EDD K. USMAN

2 simple bets to win a lotto Jackpot

Winning the lotto jackpot would be a dream come true for you, would it not?

Now, imagine actually winning the lotto, but you don't know it yet.

You walk into the lotto outlet to have your ticket checked. The lotto attendant takes your ticket, scans it, and discovers that it's a big winner. But he doesn't tell you that.

He just keeps the ticket and claims it himself.

Dream come true turns into a nightmare. Don't think it could happen?

Yes it could happen because I have seen many lotto bettors do it.

They just leave the lotto ticket when the attendant says its a non winning ticket.

They really believe what the attendant says.

I think you should be the one checking it, just to be sure.



A Lotto bettor’s wish is to win the lotto jackpot.

The lotto winner from Las Pinas got his wish after the 44th draw for hitting the 6/55 jackpot prize of P356,552,917.20 with a single bet worth P20

The P356,552,917.20 is the second biggest jackpot in the state-run lotto history.

The Balikbayan who won the P741,176,323.20 jackpot in November 2010 got his wish also after the 85th draw betting 5 lucky pick combinations worth P100



2 simple bets to win a lotto Jackpot.

The bettor just have to “maintain a number combination ” kind of playing style.

The P356,552,917.20 jackpot has been won by the carpenter who played the same number combination for years, and got it with only a P20 bet.

Add 1 lucky pick combination just for support because many jackpot winners have also won the jackpot by just making the machine pick the right numbers just like the Balikbayan did.


So bet only 2 combinations
1. 1 maintained number combination
2. 1 lucky pick bet for support

Why I say 2 simple bets to win a lotto jackpot?
because the game is heavily about LUCK.

Rags to riches for Las Piñas carpenter

Manila, Philippines - A 60-year-old carpenter from Las Piñas City who also serves as a barangay tanod won the 6/55 Grand Lotto draw on Wednesday, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) announced.

The lucky bettor claimed his P356,552,917.20 jackpot prize at the PCSO office at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City yesterday, according to PCSO general manager Jose Fernandez Rojas II.

Rojas said the winner, who picked the six-digit winning combination 05-09-19-26-30-45, was accompanied by his two sons and some relatives when he claimed the prize.

Rojas said the winner, a laborer who lives in a shanty in a squatter area in Almanza II, only spent P20 for the ticket that showed a combination taken from the birthdays of his family members and other significant events.

It was gathered that the winner, whose name was withheld for security reasons, is married with six children.

The winner said they immediately left their shanty upon learning they hit the jackpot and will use the money to settle down and buy a house and lot in their home province of Bicol.

His neighbors in Almazan said the family has not returned to their shanty since yesterday, triggering rumors that they won the lotto jackpot.

“Sana bumalik siya para may balato kami (I hope he will return to share his winnings),” one of the neighbors said.

When interviewed at the PCSO, the winner said he would return to Bicol and put the money in the bank and share his winnings with poor relatives.

The winner did not say if he would return to his shanty in Las Piñas where they stayed for the last three years.

Leo Imatani, owner of the lotto outlet that sold the winning ticket, said he already had a hunch that one of his bettors won the jackpot prize.

He said the lucky ticket was bought at about 5 p.m. on Wednesday by one of the bettors who even tried to beat the deadline.

“The line was long and I felt that somebody will win in our place,” Imatani said.

At about 9 p.m. when the lotto was drawn live on television, Imatani claimed hearing shouts and yelling at a nearby compound in Almazan.

Imatani said he simply ignored the commotion, thinking that it could be someone quarreling.

The following morning, Imatani said he was informed by the PCSO that his outlet sold the winning ticket. He said he would get P500,000 as incentive for selling the winning ticket.

The previous winner of the 6/55 draw was a 60-year-old balikbayan who bought his ticket at a shopping mall in Olongapo City. He won the biggest jackpot so far at P741 million in November last year.

Source: Perseus Echeminada (The Philippine Star)



Carpenter wins P356-M Lotto pot

MANILA, Philippines — The long and arduous journey of a 60-year-old village carpenter in conquering the challenges of everyday life suddenly encountered an unexpected relief after his lone bet won Wednesday’s 172nd draw of the Grand Lotto 6/55 conducted by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).

This lucky carpenter, who moonlights as a barangay tanod (village watchman) in Las Piñas, Metro Manila immediately claimed the next day his winnings of P356,552,917.20 at the PCSO central office.

The bettor hit the winning combination of 09-05-26-30-19-45 – consisting of their wedding anniversary and birth dates, which he has been betting on for three years.

He came to the PCSO pretty nervous – his hands were cold as ice.

From the looks of his face – solemn and almost expression-less – one will glean this man’s hard struggle of 60 long years in this world.

This man, who lives with his family in an informal settlers colony, is one of the estimated three to five million punters who placed their bets for the 6/55’s Wednesday draw.

When asked, the winner told PCSO officials that he intends to buy a house and lot, try some business ventures, and place the rest of his winnings in the bank while thinking of what to do with it.

He and his wife, who is a street sweeper, have six children, and only the youngest made it to school and only up to secondary level.

Due to the poverty they were in from the start in Albay, Bicol, the couple and their children were not able to go to school.

The winner came with his son and another relative to claim the coveted jackpot.

It was learned that some two months ago, the winner came to the PCSO to seek assistance for his son’s P86,000 hospital bills, where the PCSO helped him with P30,000.

As this developed, PCSO Chairman Margarita P. Juico said the 6/55 winner got his prize in full, and assuredly tax-free.

“We do not intend nor plan to impose any tax on the lotto prize money,” she stressed.

Juico said she hopes the jackpot money stays in the Philippines and not be brought abroad where it will be taxed, apparently referring to the Filipino-American winner of 6/55’s P741 million pot on November 29 last year who paid some P223 million in tax to the United States government.

Meanwhile, PCSO General Manager Jose Ferdinand M. Rojas II said the latest winner came to the PCSO in Pasay City at about 10 a.m. and was directed to the Internal Audit Department (PCSO-IAD) where winning tickets are validated.

Upon validation of his winning ticket, the winner was led to PCSO-IAD Manager Lauro A. Patiag to get his profile.

However, names, addresses, and photographs of winners are not divulged for their security.

Patiag said the winner had been placing bets for three years, and once a week, and only and when he had money left for a lotto ticket.

Luckily on Wednesday, the PCSO-IAD official said, the carpenter had P20 left with him and proceeded to place a bet at a lotto outlet in T.S. Cruz Subdivision in Almanza Dos.

The lotto outlet that sold the Grand Lotto winning ticket will get a commission of P500,000.

Source: By EDD K. USMAN (Manila Bulletin)