There is very little left until the drums start spinning and the numbers that this year will be awarded in the Christmas Lottery Draw are known. Many participants rush the hours to buy the tickets and others write down all the numbers in a notebook to be attentive to the children of San Idelfonso and quickly detect if they have been lucky. However, the owners of the number 30742 will not collect their prize even if it corresponds to the Gordo. The reason? A robbery in Navalmoral de la Mata (Cáceres).
On November 16, the La Barrika establishment located in the town of Cáceres suffered a robbery. The thieves took over the lottery machine after breaking the switchboard. All the tenths are registered with the Police as stolen, so getting hold of the corresponding prize will be an impossible mission. This has been notified by the owner of the bar on Facebook where he has warned that the tickets of this number will not be rewarded with the corresponding money from the draw, if they are awarded.
Stolen lottery tenths
“I inform all the clients and friends of my house that on November 16 at 2:00 AM there was a robbery in my house in which in two minutes they broke the alarm switchboard and took the vending machine. “Christmas lottery. Series of the tenths that have been taken and if it comes to the administration they are not going to pay a penny because it appears to have been stolen. Therefore, whoever buys that number individually, with or without surcharge, will not be able to collect the prize.” , La Barrika on its social networks.
In a second comment, he detailed: “Be careful where you buy it, there is no surcharge and it comes in whole sheets. Don’t trust loose tenths, they are stolen and are not paid.”
Therefore, all people who have bought tenths of the number 30742 outside the administration or the La Barrika establishment, in Navalmoral de la Mata (Cáceres), should know that they will not receive any money for it even if it is awarded.
Stolen lottery sale
The Christmas Lottery is not immune to attempted scams by those who seek to profit from deception. You can find numerous people looking to sell fake tenths. Thanks to the advancement of technology and the quality of counterfeits, it is becoming increasingly difficult to detect whether a ticket for this popular Christmas raffle is real or fake.
If you have not purchased your tenth from an official administration and you have doubts about its authenticity, you can check if it is fake with a barcode reader or an ultraviolet light. If you don’t have these objects on hand, you can do the following trick: look for the image of the Virgin of the Pomegranate, by Fra Angelico, in one of the gold frames. If it does not have that image, the tenth is not authentic.
State Lotteries and Betting recommends distrust whenever they offer us a ticket for less than 20 euros. If you are going to buy tenths online, it is best to make sure that the secure purchase code appears: HTTPS://.
Fábrica de Moneda y Timbre also remembers the characteristics that make each tenth of the Christmas Lottery unique. These are its peculiarities:
They are printed on OCR paper, with luminescent fibers in the tenth itself only visible by ultraviolet light. Each one is personalized with a barcode and numbering unique to that ticket. The security print has a combination of security inks in Gold that changes color when we move it.
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