Lotto fever strikes US as jackpot swells
By Carlos Hamann
Americans by the droves plunked down their cash Saturday for a chance at fulfilling a feverish dream: winning an estimated $600 million Powerball lottery jackpot.
Americans by the droves plunked down their cash Saturday for a chance at fulfilling a feverish dream: winning an estimated $600 million Powerball lottery jackpot.
We encourage lotto winners to buy a house and lot if they still don’t have any, ensure the education of their children and invest in a business. Prize winners also receive financial counseling from our partner bank. —Jose Ferdinand Rojas, general manager of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, which will double the minimum jackpot in the 6/42 and 6/45 draws starting May 17
Once in danger of losing his house because he had no money to pay his debts, this former pipe line worker at the defunct National Waterworks and Sewerage Authority (Nawasa) ultimately had the last laugh.
He will be paying an P80 debt to his best friend a million times over.
A lucky bettor from Luzon won the much-coveted Grandlotto 6/55 jackpot prize worth P132 million during the Saturday night’s draw, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) said.
A former seafarer owes his incredible luck to his helper who recently passed away.
The Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal filed by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) to lift the injunction order that bars them from awarding any new wireless lotto betting contracts.
Police are investigating the robbery at a lotto outlet here on Feb. 28, with doubts raised that it may have been an attempt to cheat the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO).
A MOTHER of three who owns a store in Las Piñas City has just become the latest addition to the country’s millionaires club.
She nearly fainted after her 18-year persistence finally paid off.
A young man who recently graduated from college and a single mother who owns a sari-sari (retail) store are off to a good start this year.
The saying “Basta driver, sweet lover (Drivers are sweet lovers)” seems to hold true in the case of the man who bagged the jackpot in the Dec. 20 6/42 Lotto draw.
It’s looking like a merry Christmas and a happy new year, for three lucky lotto winners who went to claim their multi-million-peso “gifts” at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Wednesday.
