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Mega SenaEl Gordo Not Just Funny Money
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Google El Gordo Primitiva and you’ll find loads of scam alerts from people who received an email telling them they won the jackpot. What’s the first clue that it’s too good to be true? They never bought a ticket.
You’ve heard the joke (it’s extremely popular in Spain, where El Gordo is run): the poor widow prays faithfully for years to win the lottery. She has been faithful all her life, despite terrible temptations. She has six hungry children and bills to pay. Finally, one day as she thumbs through her rosary, thunder rolls, the ground trembles below her feet, a brilliant shaft of light descends upon the faithful woman, and a voice says…”Go buy a ticket.”
Clue #2? Grammatical errors galore. #3? Some people “win” every month, and others have begun winning the Dutch lottery as well.
Boy, some people have all the luck.
Of course, there must be some real winners out there, and this weekly lotto awards a 5 million Euro+ jackpot. Odds of winning something (match 2) are 1 in 19. Match 3 = 1 in 299, and so on up to 1 in 3 million to match 5 and 31 million to match 5 plus PB.
It makes you wonder, if you counted up all the false alarms and all the real winners, which side would outnumber the other. It also makes you wonder if the people sending out the scam emails (they ask for personal information used to rip you off) would make more money investing their time in El Gordo instead.
