Fifth Time Lucky: Lottery Winner Succeeds in Claiming His $17 M Jackpot

ALBERTA, Canada -- A Canadian man has succeeded in his court challenge to collect a $17-million lottery prize -- his fifth such win, the Canadian Press is reporting.

Alberta-based Seguro Ndabene had to fight the Western Lottery Corporation at length to obtain his jackpot, after another man claimed the ticket was part of a group purchase, the Canadian Press report said. This man, Tony Koprnicky, later withdrew his claim and no others came forward either.

Mr Ndabene played random numbers in all his five wins and had no advice for lottery players. Mathematicians are stunned by his wins, the report mentioned.

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Since October 2004, when he won more than $1 million, Ndabene has been on an unbelievable lottery winning streak.

In subsequent draws he won $100,000, $57,000, and $1.3 million, before his latest jackpot, he said.

"They shouldn't torture a person like me just 'cause I won several times," the native of Mozambique said.

Yves Blanchette, who sold the winning ticket at his Airdrie Co-op lotto kiosk was happy for his customer.

"I like ... his horseshoes," Blanchette said.

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Lottery winner's millions were a mistake, oversight

A $2.8 million winner of the California Lottery's television show never should have been given the opportunity to win the top prize, according to allegations raised in an Assembly oversight committee hearing today.

Instead, Josefina Sineriz, 61, of Bakersfield should have received only $2,000 in lottery winnings, documents the committee obtained show.

The documents did not identify Sineriz by name but listed a chain of events that pointed to the Bakersfield woman and others who participated in a Feb. 8 taping of the "Make Me A Millionaire" show.

Bill Ainsworth, lottery spokesman, said lottery officials do not believe the winning was tainted, but regardless they have no intention of trying to retrieve Sineriz's $2.8 million.

"In no way," Ainsworth said. "We never would do that."

Assemblyman Hector De La Torre, a South Gate Democrat who chairs the oversight committee, released a lottery "incident report" that suggested procedural errors were made in the TV show's taping.

De La Torre, in a public hearing of the oversight committee, said the report indicates that contestants' names were transposed, resulting in 17 of them being assigned to a different contest than the one they were entitled to play on the TV show.

Contests essentially are games played on a particular TV show, such as Millionaire, Safe Cracker, California Cool or Lucky Penny. Potential winnings vary for each one.

Lottery chief Joan Borucki told the committee that she was not familiar with the alleged incident and asked for time to review it.

Ainsworth said later that a human error had occurred in assigning players to contests but that it did not alter a player's odds of winning.

"There was no violation of fairness or integrity," Ainsworth said.

The lottery incident report released by De La Torre suggests that the error caused some contestants to compete for more money, and some for less, than they otherwise would have been entitled to seek.

For example, one contestant -- apparently Sineriz -- won $2.8 million when she should not have been entitled to compete in that game, the lottery incident report shows.

Another contestant won $30,000, but if names had not been transposed, that person would have been able to vie for the $2.8 million prize.

The contestants themselves would not have been aware of the mistake, De La Torre said.

Ainsworth described a process in which multiple games are taped on the same day for airing on future "Make Me A Millionaire" shows.

Contestants are promised at least $2,000 and the opportunity to be assigned, through random selection, to a contest providing a chance to win much more than that -- up to $2.8 million.

The error resulted in some people being assigned to a different game than they otherwise would have, but nonetheless, a random draw ultimately determined which contest they competed in, Ainsworth said.

Ainsworth's contention, basically, is that no harm was done.

"While there was a violation of our practice that we put together, there was absolutely no violation of the randomness," he said.

The Lottery currently is considering what to do, if anything, about the nine people who played contests offering less money than they otherwise would have been entitled to seek.

"We're right now in the process of determining whether we can give those folks a remedy, and whether we should give those folks a remedy," Ainsworth said.

A quorum was not present at today's meeting of the Assembly Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review, but De La Torre announced that he will ask members to request that the state auditor investigate the allegations.

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There's a Lucky New Millionaire

PAWTUCKET — In the midst of hard economic times, a trip to a Woodlawn store appears to have made a millionaire out of one person — though he or she has yet to reap the reward.

According to a Rhode Island Lottery statement, a winning ticket for Wednesday night's $94.7 million PowerBall jackpot drawing was sold at the Li'l General Store at 600 Main St.

As of press time, however, the winner's identity was not known, as no one had come forward to claim their prize, which came to a grand total of $1 million.

The prize would have been a “mere” $200,000, but the patron plunked down an extra buck for the lottery's Power Play feature. Thanks to that extra purchase, the winnings were multiplied five times, to a total of $1 million.

Reached by phone on Thursday afternoon, however, a Li'l General employee said they had not heard about anyone purchasing a winning ticket out of their location.

The Rhode Island Lottery statement indicated that Wednesday's drawing yielded two other winners, each of whom won $200,000. Both of those winning tickets were apparently sold at Paul's Shell on Reservoir Avenue in Cranston. According to the Rhode Island Lottery statement, each winner managed to match five numbers, but not the PowerBall number.

According to information published on the Rhode Island Lottery Web site, nine lottery prizes valued over $10,000 apiece had not been claimed as of May 1, with the earliest of winnings having been drawn on May 7, 2008. That winning ticket had been purchased at Sam's Food Store, located on Eddie Dowling Highway in North Smithfield. Winning tickets are valid for one year. Presuming the North Smithfield winner did not come forward by yesterday’s deadline, the prize will have been forfeited.

Two other such unclaimed prizes had been won in Pawtucket, the Lottery site said. One was reportedly purchased at Fox Grocery on Benefit Street and drawn on Feb. 29. The other was purchased at Borderline Liquors on Newport Avenue and drawn on January 9, 2009. According to the Lottery site, all of the aforementioned unclaimed prizes were valued at $10,000.

ref. Pawtucket Times

How to Win the Lottery

"I never won anything,
UNTIL I changed my mind about winning!"


This could happen to you

Some time ago at a party, I met a guy, Alberto, who developed a habit of winning the lottery jackpots. First he won $816,000, then about six months later he won $2.2 million, then a year later he won another $6.1 million - all playing lottery. When I met him, he already traveled twice around the globe and was packing bags for his third adventure around the world.

Alberto used to work as a street car driver, without much hope of experiencing financial freedom through his employment. Now, he is free, loaded with cash and he enjoys all the extra attention he gets. Alberto was always a friendly and a caring kind of guy, helping people around him and this extra money gave him the opportunity to get more out of life and be able to do more for people he loves and cares for. With his knack for foreign languages he is having a blast traveling around the world, exploring and sharing in the richness of life, the abundance of natural beauties, the wealth that different countries and cultures have to offer.

Perhaps like Alberto used to be, you are in a dead-end job and the way you see it, the only way out is through winning the lottery. Perhaps you are doing the best you can to improve your life and you are already managing your finances well, saving and investing money, but you know that winning the lottery could help you to get the things that only money can buy - maybe you like to spend more quality time with your family, or get some expensive toys, get out of debt, have more time to learn new things and better the overall quality of your life, or simply live it up and indulge in sweet luxuries and give to your family, friends and all the people you love more than you were able to give before.

Maybe you've never played the lottery before and maybe you've been playing it for a while, but have never won anything. And maybe you would like to know what exactly did Alberto do to win a lottery jackpot, not once, not twice, but three times already.

Some people will tell you that you gotta be lucky to win. My friend, Vittorio, who won $45,000 playing Lotto 6/49 believes that you gotta be lucky to win and that lottery is the only way out. Vittorio often wins several hundred dollars on instant lottery tickets and he often finds $50, $100 or even few hundred dollars on the street - money that some unlucky person dropped and left, long before Vittorio came along. Vittorio uses NO system for winning the lottery. He knows nothing about the law of attraction or about using his mind power intentionally - he has merely conditioned his mind through winning, through finding money and through expecting to find money or win it. Vittorio is a gambler at heart.

Alberto played more sensibly - yes, he believed to be lucky, he expected to win, and he did all he could to maximize his chances of winning. You, too, can maximize your chances of winning by covering as many possibilities as you can. You can decide how you want to play and how much money would make a difference in your life.

Like many other people who eventually mastered the art and science of winning, I used to play games of chance and I won nothing UNTIL I changed my mind about winning - instead of just hoping to win, I decided to win - and so can you. I didn't just rely on luck - I chose to create my luck, and so can you. When I learned the secret and kept on applying it, I kept on winning, and so can you. And by the way "the secret" was never secret, nor was it hidden - it's just that most people didn't care to look for it.

In one of his books, Joseph Murphy tells of a man who lost all the money he had - about $250,000 gambling in Las Vegas. He didn't even have enough money to go back home. He had to phone his family to wire him the money so that he could buy a ticket and return home. The man was desperate and he asked Joseph Murphy what to do. Joseph Murphy gave him few suggestions, which this man dutifully kept on applying every day for six months. Remember that the secret of success is in applying yourself UNTIL you achieve your goal - whatever time it takes - where few days, few weeks, few months or years.

After six months of daily application of mental suggestion, the man had a dream and in a dream he dreamt that he was in a Las Vegas casino, playing at a blackjack table, where he won over $250,000. it just happened that there are no coincidences and that the man's company transferred him to Las Vegas. He went to the casino from his dream and there in the casino was a table and a dealer from his dream and he won over $250,000.

On his Personal Power CDs, Tony Robbins tells a story about a couple who were present at his Goal-Setting workshop. During the goal-setting workshop he mentioned a woman who absolutely needed to get $100,000 for her business venture, within a couple of months. The woman never made more than $30,000 a year and he thought that perhaps her goal was a bit unrealistic, but decided that it's not his place to stand in her way. The woman appeared few months later on his next Goal-Setting workshop and said how she won those $100,000 playing the lottery, just before the deadline she has set for herself.

This time she set a goal to get $200,000. It wasn't that urgent, so she gave herself a deadline of six months. And just near the end of her deadline, she again won the lottery - and she won exactly $200,000 that she needed.

A couple that were present at that workshop wondered why did she settle for so little, why not go for $1,000,000 (it's only a matter of zeroes). They decided to put into practice what they have learned. They embraced their inner power and the vision of themselves as lottery jackpot winners. They drove everyone around the mb crazy. They didn't win the first time they played, or the second, but the third time they hit it big and they won over $1,000,000.

You too can strike it rich using the power of your mind. To find out more, visit How to Win the Lottery
Good luck!