Two Florida Lottery Winners Score Big With Quick Pick

There are two new Florida winners that job got richer! The winning tickets for this pasts week's Florida Lotto jackpot were sold out of Ocala and Plantation! These are the winning numbers from Thursday's Leap Day Fantasy 5 night drawing: 1-6-23-25-26. One was actually a Quick Pick!  The jackpot for these two tickets each win $29,698.00! Fantasy 5 is a daily draw game with a top prize of approximately $100,000 if won by a single winner with each ticket costing $1.

Most scratch off tickets are usually impulse buys, depending how they look or where they’re placed but it’s smarter to make it a financial decision. The thrill of playing a scratch-off lottery ticket and uncovering a potential prize is what makes these tickets so exciting. It doesn’t matter if it’s a small or large life-changing jackpot, the suspense keeps players coming back. Also, most of the games are easy to figure out. By making the game simple, it keeps it accessible for people of all ages and backgrounds. They offer various themes and designs for all the different scratch-off tickets, which can promote popular brands or even events. One of their favorite add-ons is the puzzles and bonus games on the ticket. It seems to add an extra layer of entertainment while scratching off the game.

We’ve always envisioned winning the lottery and dreamed about how we would spend the lump sum. We want to make sure you keep up with the largest Powerball jackpots so you know when to purchase the ticket! Did you know that the Florida Lottery keeps track all of the winners and tickets on their website? You might wonder why you haven’t been winning on your favorite tickets lately and it could be because some of them are harder to win than others. Playing can be super fun and exciting but you want to make you pick a ticket that has better odds to win.

Winning the lottery is something most Americans dream of! Individuals head to their favorite Publix or convenience store hoping their ticket will wipe away all their debt. The problem is with all that extra money people usually blow through their new money too quickly. Greedy friends and family and their own wild spending bad things can happen. Lottery winners are commonly taken advantage of by scammers and even murdered.

According to the PalmBeachPost, the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards said, "Nearly one-third of lottery winner go bankrupt." Statistically, it's even worse for people with low incomes. Here's a list of the seven biggest Florida Lottery winners who had fraud, bankruptcies and were even murdered.

The Florida Lottery has some exciting news! They just launched several new games plus a limited time raffle that gives 100 players an opportunity to win $500 cash. The Florida Lottery added four new scratch-off games to their line up! These include: Fast Bucks, Aces and 8s, Hit and Win, and $5 Million Triple Match.

All you have to do is purchase a single $10 or more Powerball, Mega Million, CashPop or Florida Lotto ticket. Once you buy one, you will receive a free raffle ticket. You'll be automatically entered into the next available weekly drawing. The raffle drawings happen weekly. There will be six weekly drawings held every Monday starting Sept. 25 - Oct. 30. During each drawing, 100 players will each win $500 cash! That means there will be a total of 600 raffle winners that will win $300,000 in total cash prizes. Don't forget about scratch-off-tickets. The thrill of playing a scratch-off and uncovering a potential prize is what makes these tickets so exciting. It doesn’t matter if it’s a small or large life-changing jackpot, the suspense keeps players coming back.

Kathryn Faver won $1 million from a 500X THE CASH scratch-off ticket and took the lump sum of $820,000. She bought a new house cash and paid $400,000 in Destin, Florida. The same day she moved in, it burned down! She blamed it on the mover placing her moving boxes by the stove.

Malcolm Ramsey was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and lived at Loving Care in St. Petersburg, Florida when he bought a lottery ticket. He ended up winning the grand prize of $500 a week for life. He claimed his prize, received a cashier's check for $302,446 and went to a local Amscot to cash his check. They charged him more than $14,000 in fees! Then he started spending his money on expensive TV's and extra frivolous things. In only 4 weeks he blew through half of his winnings.

The couple decided to take the winnings in annual payments at $666,666 each. But within 15 years the Pasco County, Florida couple gambled everything away. They also spent their earnings on expensive hotels, flying around the world paying to meet celebrities.

Gloria C. MacKenzie was the largest sole lottery winner in U.S. history at the time but was taken advantage of by her son. Her son and investment manager were stealing and living off her millions while losing money at the same time.

Dampier moved to Tampa and wanted to open a gourmet popcorn store but was killed by his mistress, (who was also his sister-in-law) and her boyfriend. In 2005, Victoria Jackson and her boyfriend Nathan Jackson kidnapped Dampier and tied him up in a van. They beat him up, then Nathan handed Victoria a gun and said if you don't shoot him I'm going to shoot you. That's when she pulled the trigger and shot Dampier in the back of the head. They're both serving life in prison.

Edward's was one of three winners of a $295 million Powerball jackpot in 2001 taking a lump sum of $41.1. They blew through their entire winnings by buying an expensive house, jet, racehorses and multiple business. They also used the money on drugs including crack cocaine. heroin and pills. By 2006, they were both living out of a storage unit surround by dirty clothes and had nothing left. His wife left him and eventually remarried something. Edwards died penniless in a Kentucky hospice care in 2013.

One of the most famous stories is about a janitor from Lakeland, Florida named Abraham Shakespeare who won a lump sum of $17 million. Shakespeare could barely read and write and ended up giving away a lot of his winnings over time. Dorice Donegan "Dee Dee" Moore befriended Shakespeare and became his financial advisor. Spending his money on a new million dollar house. She then killed shot him in the chest and buried him in the backyard. She then dumped a concrete lot on top of his body so police would never find him. She even faked writing letters to his mother to pretend that he was still alive. Dee Dee got life in prison for her terrible crimes. Coincidently, in 2017 Shakespeare's mother, Antionette Andrews won $1 million in a $20 scratch-off lottery game.