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I occasionally buy Tennessee Lottery tickets and, every once in a while, win a few dollars or a free ticket. I suspect most people’s experience is like mine, so it never ceases to amaze me that people really believe they won a huge sum of money in a lottery or sweepstakes they never even entered. But they do and collectively lose hundreds of millions of dollars in the process.
A Colorado man pleaded guilty in April to defrauding thousands of consumers out of more than $15 million, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. He and co-conspirators mailed millions of fraudulent prize notices telling people they had won large sums of money. All they had to do to receive their winnings was pay a fee of $20 to $50. There were no large cash prizes and all the victims received was a report describing sweepstakes opportunities or a trinket of minimal value.
In June, the FTC reached a settlement with three men who operated a phony sweepstakes scam that took in over $28 million from consumers in the U.S., Austria, Canada, France and other countries. Victims were told they had won more than $2 million but would forfeit their prize if they didn’t pay $20 to $30 within ten days.
The wheels of justice sometimes grind slowly. These sweepstakes scams were shut down years ago, but people are still being victimized.
Earlier this year, a 73-year-old Michigan woman got a call from a crook posing as an FTC attorney telling her she had won $3.5 million, a car, and $7,000 a week for life from Publishers Clearing House (PCH). Over a period of several months, she sent multiple cashier’s checks and deposited money into Bitcoin ATMs to claim her prize. She didn’t realize it was a scam until she told a friend about it and the friend delivered the bad news. She lost $669,500.
Many sweepstakes scams that impersonate PCH are successful because victims don’t know that you have to actually enter the PCH sweepstakes and winners are notified in person by the PCH Prize Patrol. PCH doesn’t call, email, or text winners and doesn’t send checks to be deposited and used to pay a fee or tax on winnings. After victims deposit the check and wire the money, the checks bounce and they’re out the money.
Many people also fall victim to foreign lottery scams. A Maryland man received a letter telling him he’d won $6.8 million in the Australian lottery. He contacted a “claims agent” as instructed and was told to wire $1,500 to England to pay insurance on the winnings so the money could be released. He wired the funds, but realized he’d been scammed when he was told he needed to wire another $1,500 to get his money. It’s illegal for U.S. citizens to play a foreign lottery.
The Better Business Bureau offers this advice to avoid becoming the victim of a sweepstakes or lottery scam:
Randy Hutchinson is president and CEO of Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South.

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LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A guest at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas struck it lucky on Nov. 13, winning a $26,400 jackpot while playing Spin Poker.
The player is a member of the All Access Cherry Rewards program.
They hit four aces on a 2x multiplier with a $45 bet, bringing the total slot win to $26,730.
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1. Mega Millions jackpot nears $1 billion—the 8 states where winners keep the most money  CNBC
2. Feeling lucky? Mega Millions jackpot jumps to $965 million for this Friday’s drawing  Los Angeles Times
3. Mega Millions winning numbers, results for Tuesday, November 11, 2025: No jackpot winner  Detroit Free Press

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The Massachusetts State Lottery says there’s only one week left to claim a $50,000 prize won on a Powerball ticket sold nearly a year ago.

Lottery officials say the winning ticket was purchased on Nov. 20, 2024, at New Capital Farms Convenience Store at 554 Boston Post Rd. in East Marlborough.
The winning numbers are 16-30-60-62-64, with a Powerball of 25.
The drawing is set to expire next Thursday.
Powerball prize winners have one year from the date of the drawing to claim prizes.
Expired prizes become part of the net profit that the Lottery returns to the Commonwealth for distribution to all 351 cities and towns, according to officials.
Prizes up to $103,000 can be claimed at Lottery claim centers located in Braintree, Dorchester, Lawrence, New Bedford, West Springfield and Worcester.
Powerball drawings are conducted every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
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Updated: November 13, 2025 @ 7:15 pm
FILE — This undated image shows Mega Millions tickets from the Kentucky Lottery. (WDRB/archive)

Coupons for the $5 tickets will be distributed in two locations in Kentucky.
Coupons for the $5 tickets will be distributed in two locations in Kentucky.
FILE — This undated image shows Mega Millions tickets from the Kentucky Lottery. (WDRB/archive)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — To celebrate the soaring Mega Millions jackpot, the Kentucky Lottery is giving away coupons for free tickets ahead of Friday night’s drawing. 
The Mega Millions jackpot is $965 million for Friday. The cash option is $445.3 million. It’s the eighth largest jackpot since the game began in 2002.
Coupons for $5 Mega Millions tickets will be handed by lottery officials in both Louisville and Lexington on Friday, Nov. 14. 
Coupons will be distributed while supplies last. 
The most recent jackpost to reach this high was ultimately a $1.269 billion prize won in California on Dec. 27, 2024.
After four jackpot wins in the first half of this year, Friday’s drawing will be the 40th drawing in this run, a game record, since it was last won in Virginia on June 27.
Mega Millions tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets are $5 each and include a randomly assigned multiplier, multiplying the base prize levels by 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X or 10X.
Drawings are conducted at 11 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesdays and Fridays in Atlanta, Georgia. The overall odds of winning any Mega Millions prize are 1 in 23; the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336.
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