10. Lottery PowerBall – 315 million dollars, 2013 year
Money is not the key to happiness and success, especially “easy” money. And this story is clear proof of that.. On Christmas Eve, American Jack Whittaker made an incredible sum - 315 million US dollars. But after that, his life and the life of his entire family went awry.. It all started with that, that Jack was robbed several times. But it's nothing, compared to that, that the body of a little boy was found in his house, died of a drug overdose. The winner himself turned out to be a brutal criminal. At the trial, his wife confessed, what if it weren't for this lottery, their life would have turned out differently.
Maximum winnings in Russia
In Russia, one hundredth of the population participates in lotteries. And in Europe, For example, tickets are constantly being bought around 63% residents, in USA - 70%.
But even among the Russian participants there were lucky ones, who became owners of large sums in ruble equivalent.
Biggest win in Europe
The most big wins in Russia:
- The biggest win in “Russian Lotto” is 560 million rubles. It went to Natalya Vlasova from the Voronezh region. Her story amazed the organizers of the Russian Lotto game., after all, Natalya did not hope for luck at all. The ticket sat on the shelf for over a week, and only then Natalya checked the result of the draw.
Winner in "Russian Lotto"
- 364 million rubles. received by a resident of Sochi. This was the biggest win in the 6 out of 45 lottery.. The participant filled out the playing field in the smartphone application, paying for the bet in total 700 rubles. The circulation has passed 21.05.2017 Mr., but she took the cash prize after some time, because I decided to come for him with the whole family. The woman promised to donate part of the amount to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation fund.
- 358 million. rub. a man from Novosibirsk won the “6 out of 45”. He was checking the bet 6 once, and believed in winning only after calling the Stoloto call center. Lucky played around 2 years, and won 27.02.2016 Mr., paid for the bet 1800 rubles.
- 300 million rubles. received by a resident of Novosibirsk in the “4 out of 20” drawing 30.05.2017 Mr., paying for the ticket 100 rub. This was a record jackpot in the history of the 4 out of 20 lottery at that time.
Lottery "4 out of 20"
- In August 2014 Mr. native N. Novgorod, who did not want to reveal his face to the press, won the "6 out of 45" draw 202 million rubles. The man spent on the bet 700 rubles and did not show up for the prize for a whole month, not believing in my luck.
- 10 February 2014 Mr. in the game “6 out of 45” was played 184 million rubles. The owner of this amount was a resident of Tomsk. The man spent on a bet 800 rubles. He decided to spend the money he received on a house by the sea for his family..
Lottery "6 out of 45"
- A case, when we expect a win, happened to a resident of Kaliningrad. The man was fond of lotteries since childhood and constantly bought tickets. In mine 2015 he became the owner 126 900 000 rubles in the “6 out of 45” drawing. He bought a lucky ticket at a mobile phone store, spending on it 800 rub.
- 121 600 000 rubles were drawn immediately between two winners of the Stoloto lottery. They were a man from Perm and a woman from Volgograd. Both players received 61 500 000 rubles and invested the resulting amount in real estate on the Mediterranean coast.
- Albert Begrakyan from St. Petersburg became the owner 100 000 000 rubles. The man guessed the combination in the game “6 out of 45”. The lucky one received a win in 2009 year, but already after 2 left with nothing for a year. According to the portal Pikabu, he spent the entire amount on property in St. Petersburg and luxury items, and even remained in debt.
- 47 000 000 A resident of Voronezh won rubles in the Stoloto lottery. The man didn't play for money, but for fun. He spent part of the prize on renovating his apartment., and gave the rest of the amount to relatives. Lucky didn't stop, and still plays lotto.
"Stoloto" lottery
If the win is big, To receive it you will need to provide identification and bank account number. To receive the full amount at once, need to pay tax in 13% from the prize amount.
Read on our website: 5 simple ways to motivate yourself.
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6 best UK lottery winning stories
The United Kingdom has a large charity lottery, not to mention the opportunity to play one of the best lotteries in Europe and find out, what you won through our Euromillions Results. Thus, obviously, that we will find exciting stories of lottery winners from the UK.
Natalie Metcalf - "A Million and a Baby"
Natalie Metcalfe of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, entered the UK Millionaire Maker draw from Euromillions through the National Lottery. As soon as she realized, that she won, Natalia, who was pregnant at the time.came out, to celebrate the occasion with his partner Andy Symes, 43 of the year.
However, before they could celebrate, her excitement led her to give birth a month early. Fortunately, she gave birth to a healthy girl, and they, probably, enjoying their million pound prize.
Everyone will get rich together
Imagine, what did you win 114.9 million pounds in New Year's Euromillions jackpot. This is exactly what happened to Patrick and Frances Connolly in 2019 year. They are a businessman and a retired teacher., who don't want to enjoy their new life alone and compiled a list of 50 Human, with whom they would like to share their jackpot.
That's not all, what did they do with the money, since they bought a new house and retired. They have a big family, and their relatives, more likely, is on that huge list, which they wrote.
Bev Doran retained her essence
Bev Doran, single mother, which won 14 million pounds sterling, play EuroMillions in 2017 year, best person, who could win the lottery, according to people, who know her. When she won, Bev and her four children left with an allowance of 320 pounds sterling per week.
She found herself a new place, but not far from my area, so her children can keep in touch with their friends. She said this to her friends, when I won the lottery, and kept my word. Besides a better life for your family, she also created a charitable foundation. which helps small organizations around the world.
Rich in 16 years
Maybe, Have you heard of Callie Rogers?, who won the national lottery in 2003 year at the age of only 16 years. in Great Britain, you have the right to play the lottery from this age. She won about 1.87 million pounds sterling and spent almost half of it on gifts, clothing and aesthetic procedures. This is to be expected, winning so much money at such a young age.
Rich in 16 years
Maybe, Have you heard of Callie Rogers?, who won the national lottery in 2003 year at the age of only 16 years. in Great Britain, you have the right to play the lottery from this age. She won about 1.87 million pounds sterling and spent almost half of it on gifts, clothing and aesthetic procedures. This is to be expected, winning so much money at such a young age.
The lucky penny gave him 1.8 million pounds sterling
Sean Lloyd from Cheshire was a real life bus driver and father of four.. He found a penny outside the store and rubbed it against the ticket he had just bought.. He got lucky, and he thought, that he won about 1,000 pounds, haven't noticed yet, that he has a bonus number, and didn't win 1.8 million pounds sterling..
Now he has enough time, to devote yourself to a hobby and create your own sauce, being an amateur chef. The wife continues to work as a nurse, because she likes it, but no longer in two shifts.
Aaron Smith – All, what do you need to do, is to believe
The title may sound like a cliché motivational phrase., but Aaron Smith and his family may say otherwise. Euromillions Millionaire Maker giveaway makes this family a million pounds richer. Exciting story, behind him, very intriguing.
Aaron and his family came up with a game for Christmas, in which they pretended, that you won the lottery.. They took photos at the celebration, made a toast and everything. Checking the Euromillions lottery results he realized, that they actually won with his number.
Richard Lustig
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Richard Lustig – famous lottery player, which didn't win a jackpot worth over a million dollars. However, he won several lotteries, which accumulated at least 1.5 million dollars no taxes. Lustig won his first lottery 1993 year and won several state lotteries after that before 2010 of the year.
Here's Lustig's winning chart:
- He won 10,000 1993 dollars in January XNUMX on a scratch ticket.
- Won 13,696.03 1997 dollars in August 5 of the Year at the Florida Fantasy XNUMX Tournament.
- Wheel of Fortune. Holiday trip to Los Angeles in June 2000 year for the amount 3,594.66 2 USD and scratch ticket “Second Chance Draw”.
- Elvis' vacation trip to Memphis in October 2001 years for 4,966 2 dollars and a “Second Chance Draw” scratch ticket.
- Won 842,152.91 dollar in January 2002 year in the Florida Mega Money lottery.
- Won $ 73,658.06 25 2008 November 5 Mr. in the Florida Fantasy lottery
- Won 98,992.92 August 9 Mr. in the Florida Fantasy lottery 2010 5 US Dollar XNUMX.
His experience inspired him to write and publish your book entitled find out, how to increase your chances of winning the lottery. This book inspired millions of people to start playing the lottery. Unfortunately, Richard Lustig died in 2018 year.
What happened to the winners after winning the lottery?
History shows, that a lucky lottery winner is not always able to take advantage of his luck:
- IN 2002 entrepreneur Jack Whittaker from the USA won 315 million dollars, Truth, although, taking into account all the deductions, he only had 114 million. Of them 10 % he spent on charity. But a significant amount had to be paid for legal costs - many wanted to make money, filing lawsuits for battery and harassment. This started him having problems in his family., business went bankrupt, and the entrepreneur himself became depressed.
- IN 1997 Texas resident Billy B. Harrell Jr.. bought a winning ticket - its prize was more than 30 million dollars. He bought a ranch, expensive car, distributed part of the money to charitable foundations. But eventually his character began to deteriorate, he divorced his wife and subsequently committed suicide.
- American Geoffrey Dampier won the lottery 20 million dollars in 1996 year - a decent amount. He bought expensive gifts for his loved ones, took vacations at expensive resorts. After some time I understood, that you need to become a more serious person. He bought a successful popcorn business and could have lived a happy life, but fate decreed otherwise - this man was kidnapped for ransom and then killed.
- IN 2001 year in Russia, pensioner Nadezhda Mukhametzyanova won at the then exchange rate of about 1 million dollars (more 29 million rubles). However, winning did not bring much happiness, almost all the money, remaining after purchasing real estate, were wasted on trifles. Subsequently it turned out, that she had practically no money left.
- William Post won 1988 more than a year 16,2 million dollars. But that's not what this story is about., how he became a millionaire, how did you become bankrupt?. A young man bought cars and speedboats. He also invested in several family businesses. But business burned out, and he himself had to go into debt. Still, the Post is recognized, that when I became bankrupt, then I felt relief, because before that his own brother hired a killer, to inherit his fortune.
- Ibi Ronciaoli from Canada won 5 million dollars in 1991 year. But she didn't tell her husband, that she plans to spend it on a child from another man - her husband didn’t even know anything about the presence of this child. Ibi herself spent the rest of her money on gambling and managed to squander her family savings as well.. And when the truth came out, then the husband poisoned Ibi with painkillers.
- Evelyn Adam won large sums of money in the lottery twice - in 1985 and 1986 years. And spent all my money in the Atlantic City casino.
There are other examples, when a successful person treats his winnings more rationally.
Briton Joe Johnson won the lottery 10 million pounds in 1998 year. The young man invested almost all his money in real estate and securities, and at the same time he led a rather modest life, and he didn’t even tell his girlfriend about his condition right away - he was testing her feelings.
Englishwoman Margaret Lowry always dreamed of winning a million dollars, but she won 27 millions. She left a million for herself, and gave the rest to charities. While Thomas Crist from Canada, received as a prize 37 million dollars, distributed the entire amount to organizations, involved in cancer research, because his wife died of cancer. People, not falling into euphoria from winning, have every chance to live happily, without becoming victims of scammers and the envy of your neighbors. A reliable financial advisor wouldn’t hurt such people either..
How a cunning Romanian economist legally beat the lottery system, winning millions of dollars around the world.
Last Wednesday evening, a Californian won $1,08 billion in the Powerball lottery - this is one of the biggest jackpots in history. But this game victory is not the most incredible in history.. Below is a translation of the story, first published in August 2018 year and talking about the economist, truly successful in lotteries:
15 February 1992 years soon after 11 morning unsightly lottery machine, aired on the Virginia Lottery, released for public viewing 6 balls with winning numbers: 8… 11… 13… 15… 19… 20.
In the coming days, the authorities were able to find out, that “someone” hit not only the jackpot in the amount $27 036 142, but also 6 second prizes, 132 third and 135k small winnings for another $900k.
When this incident was resolved, The strangest and most incredible episode in the history of lotteries was revealed. Thousands of investors from around the world took part in the story, dozens of complex computer systems and savant mathematicians, subjugating the work of the whole lottery, being on the other side of the world.
This is a story about a man, "beat" the lottery, simply by purchasing every single possible combination in it.
Geoffrey Dampier and an attempt to help loved ones
Jeffrey Dampier won the Illinois Lottery in 1996. 20 000 000 dollars. At that moment he was in divorce proceedings with his wife, so she got half. Leaving an annoying husband and getting ten million is a good deposit for a new life for an ordinary American housewife. But for Jeffrey, everything turned out much sadder.
Shortly after the divorce, Dampier met a girl named Crystal, married her, and they moved together to a house on the Tampa Bay coast. Jeffrey chose not to waste money, That's why I invested in a popcorn business, but I didn’t forget about my loved ones. Over time, he moved the young Crystal sisters, Victoria and Terry Jackson, to Tampa Bay, who at that time were experiencing financial difficulties.
Everything went well at first: the business generated income, and the family lived together. Everything changed in the evening 26 July 2005 of the year, when Victoria Jackson called Jeffrey from the yard, so that he can look at her junk car. When he came out, Victoria's boyfriend Nathaniel poked him in the side with a gun and ordered him to get into the minivan, in which the millionaire was eventually taken to the forest. Jeffrey's hands tied, Nathaniel pointed the gun at Victoria Jackson and told her: "If you don't kill him, I'll shoot you". Victoria then raised her gun and shot Dampier in the back of the head..
Victoria, Jeffrey and Nathaniel
Both, naturally, caught. At the trial the prosecutor stated, that the murderers' goal was money, but the defense insisted, that it was a domestic dispute, which was the result of a long series of harassment, which Victoria suffered from Geoffrey. The judge ultimately sided with the prosecution and handed down a verdict - life in prison for Nathaniel and Victoria Jackson.
By the way, Dampier's ex-wife chose not to give detailed comments about the murder. She now lives happily with her new family somewhere in Colorado..
How did the fate of the genius turn out??
When the dust has settled, All, who was involved in the lottery thanks to comprehensive life insurance, what Mandel designed - small business owners, machinist operators, housekeepers and doctors - received approximately $1.4k each.
Some people were not satisfied with this outcome.. "Stephan Mandel is not just worthless", — one disgruntled investor later threw out, - “It’s also toxic”.
Mandel, meanwhile, accrued himself a one-time “consulting fee” of $1,7 million, and, as they say, sold a twenty-year prize payment annuity to an American insurance company for the total amount $14 millions. After covering costs ($ 5,5 million for tickets and $500k for other expenses), he ended up with a lot of money.
Next we can trace, that he directed this cash to the Pacific Basin Fund, to a Hong Kong account, which was run by his wife's relative. "It turned out, that the amounts we calculated are very different from the real ones", - he wrote to his investors in 1994 year, – “Today such an investment no longer seems very profitable”.
After that, his contacts with investors dried up..
Advertising, which Stefan Mandel posted in Australian newspapers, seeking to find investors for their lottery schemes (The Age, 1986-7)
In just a couple of years, V 1995 year, Mandel declared bankruptcy. Then, for another decade, he carried out various investment schemes., in one of which he received a ten-month prison sentence in Israel for “allegedly concealing the conditions for placing funds in a cooperative society”. (Mandel's lawyer subsequently reported, that this charge was quashed, and that Mandel never spent a day behind bars.”.
Today, Mandel whiles away his days in a beach bungalow on a secluded tropical island in Vanuatu, one of the Oceanian states.. He lives quietly and reports, that I’m done with lotteries.
Enizali Alex, his longtime colleague, also avoided prison, currently lives modestly in rural Illinois. Years later he recalled, that “no director will come up with such a scenario. Life was more interesting in those years, than in the movies".
Even if they managed to completely recreate the logistics of Mandel's 20-year career in the lottery business, he never revealed the details of his algorithm. Once upon a time in 1992 year told an Associated Press journalist who questioned him.: "Doesn't matter, as if you were asking Coca-Cola to tell you their signature recipe.".
Mandel left his mark on US legislation. Today in all 44 states, where are lotteries held?, laws passed, prohibiting the reproduction of Mandel's strategy for personal gain. Actually, for this reason he staked out for himself the title of first and last man, who managed to beat the lottery system, simply by buying all possible combinations.
How to turn lottery winnings into a business
After wandering around Europe for four years, Mandel settled in Australia and decided to play the lottery in a new way.
In a typical lottery, a number of numbers are randomly selected from a certain range (let's say, 1-50); if the numbers you marked match the ones you selected in any order, then you hit the jackpot. The probability of winning depends on, how many combinations of these numbers can there be?; we can talk about millions of combinations.
But Mandel noticed something: in certain lotteries, the jackpot could be more than three times the total cost of redeeming all combinations.
Let's say, For example, that in the lottery you need to choose six numbers from 1 to 40. As a result we have 3 838 380 possible combinations of numbers (here is the calculator). Also acceptable, what is the jackpot in the same lottery? $10 millions. Mandel could buy a ticket for each combination for a dollar per ticket.. This would guarantee him victory, and after taxes - a solid profit.
Mandel insisted, that "any, mastered mathematics at the high school level, can calculate these combinations". But this method was accompanied by serious logistical difficulties.. How to withdraw capital? And how to fill hundreds of thousands of tickets?, number after number?
Mandel's system was simple from a mathematical point of view, but incredibly difficult in terms of execution (The Hustle)
Over the years, Mandel has convinced hundreds of investors to create a pool of capital, thus creating a “lottery syndicate”. After that, he developed and assembled a fully functional system, allowing to automate this process. The result is a room, lined with printers and computers; algorithm was executed on computers, pre-filled tickets.
Computers improved, Thanks to this, Mandel revolutionized his method. Previously, all he could do was, what to write out millions of combinations manually, and a single mistake could bury eight months of work; now this work could be delegated to a machine.
The Mandel Syndicate had to bide its time throughout the 1980s., bye jackpot, finally, did not exceed three times the total cost of all possible combinations. Then it was time to buy thousands of tickets. Managed to win 12 lottery (and collect $400k in small prizes) Australia wide. And in 1986 year the trophy was won in $1,1 million.
"Everyone told me: you won't succeed, That's for sure!», - Mandel told a Romanian newspaper at the time, - “now the voices, for a long time making me look like an empty dreamer, I had to calm down".
But Mandel's system soon attracted unwanted attention.. He won and won, which forced the Australian authorities to change the law, prohibiting one person from redeeming all possible combinations in one lottery
He won and won, which forced the Australian authorities to change the law, prohibiting one person from redeeming all possible combinations in one lottery.
So he set himself a bigger goal - one that would make headlines around the world and cause a global headache for lottery organizers..
