A false joy to a million euros. In Norway, thousands of players had the unpleasant surprise when they realized that they had not won the fat prize, since a message had informed them a little earlier. On Friday, June 27, at night, “several thousand people who won in the Eurojackpot were informed of the erroneous amounts,” said Nord Dipping, the Norwegian games company organized by this lottery, interviewed by the BBC.
The players thought they had won the fat prize. But it was a “err error of Er in the Norwegian crowns”, which transformed the profits really won by these players into “excessively high amounts,” added Punks Norsk.
Specifically, the profits were multiplied by 100, instead of dividing by 100: each participant, therefore, thought of winning 10,000 times what had really been pocketed. The game company specifies that no incorrect payment has been made.
“Smore Consolation”
Faced with these thousands of disappointed players and this “human error”, according to local media, the CEO of Norsk Tipping, Tonje Sagstuen, apologized and renounced the next day on Saturday.
“I am very sorry to have disappointed so many people, and I understand that people are angry with us,” said Tonje Sagstuen in a press release transmitted by the BBC, and added that “critics are justified” and evoke an obvious “breakdown of trust.”
And to conclude: “I can only tell you: I’m sorry! But I understand that it is a scarce comfort.”
Source: BFM TV
