A while ago, Kim Szabo, a housewife who likes to play the online lottery California Lotto Plus. She was lucky enough to win this online lottery jackpot, she won a $33.3 million dollar prize. Every week, precise as clockwork, Kim Szabo bought a California Lotto Plus lottery ticket until one day she decided to change her routine, which is when she buys twice the amount of lottery tickets she was used to buy.

She chose the lump sum payment option, which is why her $33.3 million dollar prize was reduced to a $13.5 million dollar prize, after federal taxes.

The retailers and the schools of California also win with the online lottery California Lotto Plus. The retailer where she bought the lottery ticket will receive a $167.000 dollar bonus for selling the winning lottery ticket. The schools will receive a $62 million dollar donation.

In August, 2007, a Friday night, an event happened without precedents in the history of the online lottery Euro Millions. At that moment the jackpot of the online lottery has never been so high, it reached the sum of £35.4 million Pounds. On that Euro Millions draw there was only one gambler who bought a lottery ticket with the right numerical combination and he won the online lottery Euro Millions jackpot.

The winner of this jackpot challenge (like many players) and defeated the odds of winning the jackpot of the online lottery Euro Millions. The odds of winning the jackpot where 1 in 76 million.

The player who had the winning lottery ticket did not claim his prize immediately, and the doubts started. Everybody was wondering if he has lost the lottery ticket, if he did not know that he won, and many more doubts. Eventually the player claimed his prize.

The international organization called Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) has given the online lottery California Lotto Plus a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for the Fiscal Year 2005-06 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR).

The GFOA is an organization without purpose of profit with offices in Chicago, IL, Washington D.C.

The online lottery California Lotto Plus has won this certificate, the most respected one in the governmental accounting and financial reporting area, four years in a row.

Since the online lottery California Lotto Plus started back in 1985, more than $19 billion dollars has been given to California’s public schools, al least a 34% of the total $52 billion dollars total money earned in the sales. More than 50% of the sales have been returned as winnings.