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    Why apps are evil

    Couple miss out on £35m Lotto jackpot after web blunder - Telegraph

    Following on from the news that suitys bank account was hacked by an app, a couple "lose" £35m. They should have stuck to a piece of paper from the corner shop.
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    They admit they didn't get a confirmation and didn't check for one so its a case of 'user IQ too low'!

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      Originally posted by SlipTheJab View Post
      They admit they didn't get a confirmation and didn't check for one so its a case of 'user IQ too low'!
      That can be said of all lottery users. And yes, I do have a lottery direct debit.

      I always hope that lady luck(stupidity in large numbers) might pick on me. Even lady luck wants to divorce me....

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        #4
        I rarely do it but when I do, I regularly win. Just really tiny amounts unfortunately, email about £6.30 today from Friday's Euromillions. Got 2 free lucky dip tickets on previous two times I entered. No massive jackpots but at least it almost pays for itself.
        bloggoth

        If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
        John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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          The last time I gave Camelot any money was when I was in a syndicate at my last permie place, in it for 5 years and we won sod all

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            in it for 5 years and we won sod all
            That's about what everybody I know says, so really odd I regularly get these little wins (3 in a row counting free tickets as I said above). Think I will keep a record from now on or people will think I'm making it up.

            PS Just checked back to April. Spent £36, won £31.30 and 3 free tickets. Almost free!
            bloggoth

            If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
            John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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              Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
              That's about what everybody I know says, so really odd I regularly get these little wins (3 in a row counting free tickets as I said above). Think I will keep a record from now on or people will think I'm making it up.

              PS Just checked back to April. Spent £36, won £31.30 and 3 free tickets. Almost free!
              See what you get for sacrificing Traffic Wardens & HMRC Investigators weekly!
              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                Originally posted by SlipTheJab View Post
                The last time I gave Camelot any money was when I was in a syndicate at my last permie place, in it for 5 years and we won sod all
                So about as good as the CUK syndicate then....

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                  Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
                  So about as good as the CUK syndicate then....
                  Thing is once you're in a work syndicate they've got you as you dare not leave until you actually leave for a new job somewhere else just in case the rest of the dept hits it big, no matter how infinitesimally small that possibility may be

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