A Colorado man who shared a lottery jackpot with lotto-fixer Eddie Tipton is suing the Colorado State Lottery in an attempt to reclaim the rest of his winnings. It's the first lawsuit of its kind and, if successful, could be a major headache for the US lottery business. Amir Massihzadeh, on whose behalf the suit…
Lottoland is facing a new set of regulatory headaches in New South Wales where government officials refer to the company's products as, "synthetic lotteries." It's just the latest regulatory headache for the company whose business model is drastically disrupting local lotteries, and local lottery revenue. Details on how exactly New South Wales plans on regulation…
Lottoland CEO Nigel Barrell is a very busy man these days as he defends his company's business model from fierce criticism in Australia, as well as expanding the scope of Lottoland's daily operations. On Lottoland's business operations side, the company recently announced that has received a financial services from Gibraltar for its Fortuna subsidiary. Fortuna…
Lottoland is under attack in Australia. All across the Land Down Under, gambling operators and governmental entities are mounting a fierce resistance to the company's unique business model that allows players to bet on the outcome of local and international lotteries. In Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria, local governments are working feverishly to scale back…
Australia's digital lottery market is heating up as Crown Resorts launches a new digital lottery product called CrownLotto. It's a move designed to shake up the rapidly growing Aussie digital lottery market, but it's one that social critics are not happy about. Crown Resorts announced their new lottery product early this week and expect to…
Lawyers representing a group of US lottery players are filing a lawsuit against the Multi-State Lottery Association seeking refunds for cash their clients spent on lottery drawings that were rigged by one of the non-profit's employees. Papers were filed earlier this week in an Iowa district court on behalf of Dale Culler, an Burlington, Iowa-based…
Do national and multi-state lotteries like the Powerball take advantage of low-income players? That's a long-held notion that's trotted out whenever the Powerball starts climbing past the $500 million mark, only there's just one little problem with that idea. According to a recent Gallup Poll, that idea might not actually be true. The new survey,…
Authorities in the Canadian province of Quebec are getting ready to enforce a blacklist of over 2,000 unregulated online gambling sites. It's a controversial move that's aimed at shoring up Loto-Québec, the provincial lottery, but it's not without controversy. Loto-Quebec officials have made no secret about what's motivating their desire to block access to the…
Unregulated 4D lotteries are big business in Malaysia these days but their wild popularity comes with price. All this offshore lottery action is costing the Malaysian government hundreds of millions in lost tax revenue. 4-Digits (4D) lotteries are a licensed product of a company called Magnum 4D. The lotteries, which are extremely popular in Malaysia…
Hackers hit the Irish National Lottery with a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last week that disabled the lottery's website, as well as free-standing ticket kiosks. Though the attack was short lived, only about two hours total, its scope should be enough to leave lottery officials plenty shaken. After all, most DDoS attacks…
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