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Biggest lottery winners around the world
As biggest ever jackpot looms, we look at some of the largest lottery wins
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Lottery fever has gripped the US as the biggest jackpot ever seen goes up for grabs.
Friday night's Mega Millions lottery is estimated to be worth a whopping $476 million (£300 million), following a number of rollovers.
Tickets cost just one dollar and the rules state tourists are allowed to enter - but unless you're in the US already you won't be able to try your luck; the draw cannot be entered online from overseas.
While a single winner would easily become the biggest lottery winner the world has ever seen, there have been a host of other winners who have pocketed a tidy sum.
Here, we'll take a look at some of the world's luckiest lottery winners to have gone public.
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30/03/2012 05:51
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08/07/2012 16:47
i just received this email with a link in it that brought me here! wish it was true! i had to remove link in oder to be able to show email here.
Dear Email User,
This is a personal email directed to you. I am Dave Dawes,I and my fiance
won a Jackpot Lottery of 101 million pounds ($156 million) in October,My
fiance and I have decided to make sure this is put on the internet for the
world to see. You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate
family members and friends,and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum
of 1 million pounds ($1.56 million) to you as part of our own charity
project to improve the lot of 5 unknown lucky individuals all over the
world plus 15 close friends and family.If you have received this email
then you are one of the lucky recipients and all you have to do is get
back with us with your
Full Name:
Telephone Number:
Age:
Country
so that we can send your details to the payout courier.
You can verify this by visiting the web pages below.
We anticipate your earliest response.
Best of luck,
Dave And Angela Dawes .
03/08/2012 17:04
Hi Colin and Chris,I am so happy for you guys on your winnings I can only see good things for you two,I have been playing this lottery games of chance for over 20 yrs hoping some day luck will come my way,As a single mother of 4 boys life has been hard but i learned threw out the yrs keep trying so i push on day after day...thanks for sharing your news...Congratutions on your big Winner!!!!!! well if i ever get lucky i want to help the animals who are strays and know one to help them,i just found out little communitys don't have no one to help thoses animals,so thats one of my plans if i ever was to hit the lottery is to help these animal to a shelter and food and medical needs......
30/03/2012 21:58
some people have played the lottery from day 1 and there people who have played once or twice and won. the jackpot is to big and it should be reduced to 40 million at the most. it all about boasting how they won and rubs it in to people that keep on playing and only win between 5 pounds and 10 pounds every 6 months and if you getting begging letters it its all down to you not anyone else for putting yourself on tv or in the papers. and what gets me they stay in the uk when there better place to llive. ive reduced what i spread on the lottery now and when i hit 40 in the next 6 years ill be shutting my lottery account down has i ain't wasting any more money. has most people have now packed it in and Camelot are losing money why because you match 123 numbers and you get only a 5 or 10 that ain't going to get you far. with the price of living.
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