New Posts For Thread: £12 Million Lotto Winnerhttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31906429/12-million-lotto-winnerWhy on earth do people trust a shopkeeper to check their numbers , there must be thousands of small wins trousered every week by shopkeepers who say oh no winners there , the bleep was brought in to try and stop this but i suspect they just disable tThere would have to be a lot of coincidences for any situationto occur around the incident.Then multiply in the odds of the 6 numbers copping.But it's happened, and even if this turned out to bea false claim, there would still be quite a story onthehttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31906429/12-million-lotto-winner?post_id=565483893#565483893There would have to be a lot of coincidences for any situationto occur around the incident.Then multiply in the odds of the 6 numbers copping.But it's happened, and even if this turned out to bea false claim, there would still be quite a story ontheFri, 10 Jul 2026 11:51:28 -0500Anyway there is a lot of coincidence for the shop keeper , a jackpot winning ticket , the machine not working properly , the ticket thrown away and the cctv not working .https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31906429/12-million-lotto-winner?post_id=565483879#565483879Anyway there is a lot of coincidence for the shop keeper , a jackpot winning ticket , the machine not working properly , the ticket thrown away and the cctv not working .Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:45:20 -0500A bookie a few years ago said he had a punter who used to bet rev f doubles and trebles across the card for pennies etc , he just used to ask them the next day how much they made it and said yeah i make it the same or a few pennies different and payhttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31906429/12-million-lotto-winner?post_id=565483811#565483811A bookie a few years ago said he had a punter who used to bet rev f doubles and trebles across the card for pennies etc , he just used to ask them the next day how much they made it and said yeah i make it the same or a few pennies different and payFri, 10 Jul 2026 11:17:07 -0500Not everybodyhttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31906429/12-million-lotto-winner?post_id=565483799#565483799Not everybodyFri, 10 Jul 2026 11:11:38 -0500There's plenty of folk in bookies place betsand get them checked by staff,... Anything off this one I placed last Tuesday.No everybody runs on super efficienciesPlenty of sleepers in bookies too, some biggies.https://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31906429/12-million-lotto-winner?post_id=565483795#565483795There's plenty of folk in bookies place betsand get them checked by staff,... Anything off this one I placed last Tuesday.No everybody runs on super efficienciesPlenty of sleepers in bookies too, some biggies.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:10:40 -0500If the mother has the ticket and writes her details on the back , she could just say i put it on , my name is on the ticket , it is mine . I thought if someone claims they have won without a ticket then they are told to say nothing . yet they seem tohttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31906429/12-million-lotto-winner?post_id=565483793#565483793If the mother has the ticket and writes her details on the back , she could just say i put it on , my name is on the ticket , it is mine . I thought if someone claims they have won without a ticket then they are told to say nothing . yet they seem toFri, 10 Jul 2026 11:08:38 -0500If you'd picked the same numbers for 20 years wouldn't you actually watch the draw, or at least look up what the winning numbers were online?I've never bought a ticket but this sounds like the equivalent of putting on bets in a bookies, not watchinghttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31906429/12-million-lotto-winner?post_id=565483779#565483779If you'd picked the same numbers for 20 years wouldn't you actually watch the draw, or at least look up what the winning numbers were online?I've never bought a ticket but this sounds like the equivalent of putting on bets in a bookies, not watchingFri, 10 Jul 2026 11:03:42 -0500Mum-of-two Kath told The Sun: “I just feel sick all the time, it’s the not knowing and waiting. I saw there was an unclaimed lottery ticket and checked the numbers and realised they were mine. I rang my mother and said, ‘You did put the lotteryhttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31906429/12-million-lotto-winner?post_id=565483741#565483741Mum-of-two Kath told The Sun: “I just feel sick all the time, it’s the not knowing and waiting. I saw there was an unclaimed lottery ticket and checked the numbers and realised they were mine. I rang my mother and said, ‘You did put the lotteryFri, 10 Jul 2026 10:53:59 -0500Whatever happened, something unusual has occurred.People do odd things, and maybe we find out the whole story, or more likely assumptions aremade to support the eventual outcome.Lottery company will have all data on winning ticket, so not hard to prohttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31906429/12-million-lotto-winner?post_id=565483655#565483655Whatever happened, something unusual has occurred.People do odd things, and maybe we find out the whole story, or more likely assumptions aremade to support the eventual outcome.Lottery company will have all data on winning ticket, so not hard to proFri, 10 Jul 2026 10:34:36 -0500But once the daughter is aware of her numbers coming up then nobody else could collect the winnings could they, especially the mum, so what is the point The chances of the mum claiming and keeping a £12m win secret would be absolutely zero. So justhttps://community.betfair.com/politics/go/thread/view/94150/31906429/12-million-lotto-winner?post_id=565483607#565483607But once the daughter is aware of her numbers coming up then nobody else could collect the winnings could they, especially the mum, so what is the point The chances of the mum claiming and keeping a £12m win secret would be absolutely zero. So justFri, 10 Jul 2026 10:26:13 -0500