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Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Lottery Organizer Drops Heartbreaking Bombshell After Thousands of People are Accidentally Told They're Winners
Thousands of Norwegians received incorrect lottery winnings notifications due to a "manual error" on June 27 Norsk Tipping customers were told they had won high money prizes in the Eurojackpot draw following a conversion blunder, the company announced Norsk Tipping CEO Tonje Sagstuen has resigned following the incidentThousands of lottery winners in Norway have been left disappointed after being informed that the big money prizes they had been told they had won were, in fact, declared by mistake. On Friday, June 27, Norsk Tipping customers were informed that they had won large sums of money in the Eurojackpot draw, only to be told hours later that their winnings amounts were incorrect due to a 'manual error' in calculations. 'Norsk Tipping receives the prize amounts from Germany in Eurocents, and then converts them to Norwegian kroner. It is during this conversion that a manual error was made in the code that is entered into our game engine,' Norsk Tipping announced in a statement the next day. The company explained that the winnings had been multiplied by 100, instead of being divided by 100, leading customers to believe they'd scooped a lot more money than they actually had. 'The incorrect prize amounts were removed from the website and app on Friday evening,' said Norsk Tipping. The correct prizes were sent at approximately 3:15 a.m. local time and completed by approximately 4:30 a.m. local time. No customers were paid the wrong premium, the company said. Several Norwegians had already made big plans with their incorrect lottery winnings, including a couple who believed they'd won 1.2 million kroner ($118,901) while working on a home renovation at the time, The Guardian reported. Another resident also thought they'd won 1.9 million kroner ($188,260) in the mishap. 'It was very fun for a minute,' Lise Naustdal told the outlet. Norsk Tipping CEO Tonje Sagstuen announced her resignation following the massive error on Sunday, June 29, CBS News reported. She had been in the role since September 2023. "I am terribly sorry that we have disappointed so many, and I understand that people are angry with us," Sagstuen said in a statement, per the outlet. "I have received many messages from people who had managed to make plans for holidays, buying an apartment, or renovating before they realized that the amount was wrong. To them I can only say: Sorry! But I understand that it is a small consolation." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest Tipping also apologized for the error and for disappointing its customers. The company is reportedly investigating the incident. PEOPLE has contacted Norsk Tipping for comment but did not immediately hear back. Read the original article on People
Euronews
30-06-2025
- Business
- Euronews
Thousands wrongly told they had won huge sums in Norway lottery mix up
Norway's state-owned gambling company Norsk Tipping mistakenly told "several thousand people" they had won "excessively high" Eurojackpot prizes on Friday, due to "an error in the code that converts Eurocents to Norwegian kroner in the gaming system." In a press release, Norsk Tipping announced that it had removed the incorrect prize amounts from its website and app on Friday evening, adding that the correct prize overview was uploaded to its platforms on Saturday evening. According to Norsk Tipping, no incorrect pay-outs were made. After amassing sharp criticism from Norway's gambling regulator, as well as from customers who were left disappointed, the company responded by acknowledging that the criticism it faced was "justified." On Saturday, the company's CEO Tonje Sagstuen issued an apology and handed in her resignation. "I've received many messages from people who had managed to make plans for holidays, buying an apartment or redecorating before they realised that the amount was wrong. To them I can only say: I'm sorry! But I understand that it's little consolation," said Sagstuen, who became the company's CEO in September 2023, having worked there since 2014. Lottery CEO steps down Sagstuen handed in her resignation after an emergency meeting between Norsk Tipping's board and Norway's Ministry of Culture on Saturday morning. Sylvia Brustad, chair of Norsk Tipping's board announced that "the Board and Tonje [Sagstuen] have concluded that the most important thing now is to calm down the company and the important improvement processes that have been initiated." "That's why Tonje herself has chosen to step down from her role as CEO after many months of intense work pressure. It is a decision that a unanimous board supports her in," added Brustad. In a press release, Norsk Tipping said the company has faced a breadth of technical issues over the past year, for which "the root cause goes way back in time." While it stated that the prize amounts error was not a technical one, it announced that an investigation would be launched in order to determine how the incident occurred and in order "to prevent something similar from happening again."
Wales Online
29-06-2025
- Business
- Wales Online
Lottery error sees thousands told they wrongly won huge sums
Lottery error sees thousands told they wrongly won huge sums The CEO of the gambling company has since apologised and resigned following the incident One customer said she received a notification saying she had received the equivalent of thousands of pounds in the lottery blunder Thousands of people in Norway have wrongly been told that they had won huge sums after receiving a notification from a state-owned gambling company in a lottery error. BBC reported that some people said they had received prize money the equivalent of thousands of pounds, but ended up only getting a fraction of the sum once the error had been fixed. According to BBC News, the gambling company - Norsk Tipping, refused to confirm the exact number of those impacted by the blunder, however it is believed that around "several thousand" people, who won prizes in the Eurojackpot, had been notified of incorrect amounts on Friday, June 27. The CEO of Norsk Tipping, Tonje Sagstuen, has since apologised and resigned following the incident. In a statement, the former CEO said that she was "terribly sorry" and that the "criticism is justified", adding that she had received messages from people who were planning on going on holiday or renovating their homes with the winning money. Germany sends the money to Norwegian gambling company in euros, before it is then converted to Norwegian kroner. For money-saving tips, sign up to our Money newsletter here . Article continues below According to BBC News, the error stemmed from the conversion rate from Eurocents to Norwegian kroner, which caused the prize amounts to be "excessively high". A media outlet in Norway reported that the amount had been multiplied by 100 rather than divided by 100. However, it was confirmed that the correct amounts had been updated on Saturday evening, June 28, and no incorrect pay-outs had been made, Norsk Tipping confirmed. One woman told Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) that she had received a notification saying she had won 1.2 million kroner, which is the equivalent of around £87,000, before then receiving only a fraction of the money. On Saturday, the gambling company's board held an emergency meeting with Norway's ministry of culture, which administers the running of the company. Norsk Tipping has the exclusive right to deliver gaming services in the country, BBC reports. Norway's Minister of Culture and Equality Lubna Jaffery told NRK that "such mistakes should not happen". Following the meeting, Tonje Sagstuen resigned as the CEO - a position she had held since September 2023, having worked at Norsk Tipping since 2014. This isn't the first time the gambling company has come under fire, with "several serious errors" uncovered in recent months. Article continues below The company had "experienced a number of technical problems in the past year" and had been "heavily criticised" by the regulator and its customers, which the company said was "justified".
