Lottery of the fake lotteries
WHOOPS! Feedback was momentarily taken in by the website irishlotto.net, which promises that "to improve your chances of winning the Irish lottery we have compiled a STATS section based on previous draws". That prompted reader Terry Devlin to ask whether the Irish Lottery had "discovered some previously unknown aspect of the laws of probability" (21 April).
Craig Lindsay's pdf-converter software rebuked him with an error message which read: "Warning, You have exceeded the maximum allowable file size of 0 bytes
Stuart Neilson writes to point out that the site name irishlotto.net is registered to one Mark O'Meara, not to the Irish Lottery. That can be found at addresses including lotto.ie - which is, indeed, registered to An Post National Lottery Company, to whom we apologise.
So we tried to work out why O'Meara goes to the trouble and expense ...
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