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Lottery Scam Spain.. Who to contact?
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gatita
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NO it is NOT the usual email telling me I have won zillions of £'s! I uncovered this quite by accident!
I mentioned to my daughter who lives in Spain that we should buy between us a 'El Nino' lottery ticket (6th January.) I was looking online at the numbers, and couldn't understand WHY the cost of a decimo was 40 Euros, double the El Gordo ticket at just 20 Euros, she said that wasn't right, so I sent the link to her, and guess what!
she got the CORRECT price (20 euros). I tried it about 10 times with the same result, so this is obviously a BIG scam. Thing is I would like to contact a journalist and give them all the evidence but not sure how to go about it!
Can anyone help please?
I mentioned to my daughter who lives in Spain that we should buy between us a 'El Nino' lottery ticket (6th January.) I was looking online at the numbers, and couldn't understand WHY the cost of a decimo was 40 Euros, double the El Gordo ticket at just 20 Euros, she said that wasn't right, so I sent the link to her, and guess what!
she got the CORRECT price (20 euros). I tried it about 10 times with the same result, so this is obviously a BIG scam. Thing is I would like to contact a journalist and give them all the evidence but not sure how to go about it!
Can anyone help please?
When man sacrifices the Love of POWER for the Power of Love, there will be peace on earth.
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what does it say in the terms and conditions of sale of the ticket? Does it add costs to those tickets purchased outside of Spain?Remember the time he ate my goldfish? And you lied and said I never had goldfish. Then why did I have the bowl Bart? Why did I have the bowl?0
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what does it say in the terms and conditions of sale of the ticket? Does it add costs to those tickets purchased outside of Spain?
It says the ticket cost 40 euros (DOUBLE the actual price,) and a further 10 euros for administation charges. What I find amazing is that here it shows up as 40 euros and the exact same link in Spain shows up as 20 euros!When man sacrifices the Love of POWER for the Power of Love, there will be peace on earth.0 -
It must know, from your IP, that you are coming in from outside of Spain, and therefore either add money on, or it's calculation is flawed.
sounds like you've got twice as much chance on winning in Spain though! Good luck!Remember the time he ate my goldfish? And you lied and said I never had goldfish. Then why did I have the bowl Bart? Why did I have the bowl?0 -
And, of course, a Euromillions ticket costs £1.50 in the UK - but only €1 in Europe.Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0
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wasnt el nino a freak weather storm? gotta be a scam0
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it was real. a few hundred people won large amounts of money. was on the national news (i think the cat stuck up a tree hadn't been rescued) as the last item a few days back.Remember the time he ate my goldfish? And you lied and said I never had goldfish. Then why did I have the bowl Bart? Why did I have the bowl?0
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it was real. a few hundred people won large amounts of money. was on the national news (i think the cat stuck up a tree hadn't been rescued) as the last item a few days back.
That was "El Gordo" which was drawn before Christmas. El Niño is for real and, as gatita said, is drawn on January 6 :-
http://www.thefatone.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?0 -
Another knobjock that makes a wild comment on something they know fu ck all about. It is the biggest lottery in the world and if you read the OP maybe you would have saved yourself 2mins of typing and 2mins of us forum users reading your inaccurate post:mad::mad::mad::mad:TBeckett100 wrote: »wasnt el nino a freak weather storm? gotta be a scam0 -
Looking back at all your posts you are worse than me and that says something:T:TTBeckett100 wrote: »wasnt el nino a freak weather storm? gotta be a scam0 -
Another knobjock that makes a wild comment on something they know fu ck all about. It is the biggest lottery in the world and if you read the OP maybe you would have saved yourself 2mins of typing and 2mins of us forum users reading your inaccurate post:mad::mad::mad::mad:
Oh dear - a bit of sarcasm/humour goes so far over someone's head that they think it is the space shuttle ! :rolleyes:0
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