The US citizens love to play the lottery: Americans spend $80 billion a year on tickets, compared with just $11 billion on going to the movies. Not surprisingly, there are also those who try to cheat the system. The crunchy cipher Gerald Selbee has always had a love of maths and riddles. At school the […]

Success, as you know, requires perseverance and a lot of patience. That was the lesson Bon Truong, a landscaper from Edmonton, Alberta in Canada, learned. The lucky man managed to win $60 million in the lottery after playing for thirty years. The interesting thing is that all this time Truong filled in the same numbers […]

In 1994 the romantic comedy It Could Happen to You (starring Nicolas Cage) won the hearts of many film fans. In the story, a New York cop wins the lottery and shares the prize with a waitress (played by Bridget Fonda). Did you know that this plot is based on a true story?  It is […]

In 2018, a New York lawyer swindled $107 million from lottery winners who hired him to manage their investments. Several years ago, he claimed in an interview that lottery winners could be easy targets for fraudsters. In August, a Brooklyn federal prosecutor accused Long Island lawyer Jason Kurland of defrauding lottery winners who entrusted him […]