It is everyone’s dream to win the lottery. Yet with so few people ever having won the lottery, how could one man possibly select the winning numbers fourteen times in a row? Well, not only is it possible, it actually happened, but it takes a lot of dedication to the moneymaking game. Stefan Mandel is the man who formed a hugely profitable formula that ended up with him being wanted or unwelcome in a number of countries. How exactly did he manage to cheat a seemingly random system? Was it worth it? Did he do anything wrong? Read on and decide for yourselves.
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14 Times Lottery Winner
Mid-20th Century Living
Our story begins in Romania, during the 1950s. This was a nation ruined by the oppressive and incompetent communist regime of the time. The then young Mandel was working at an industrial mining business as an economist, an occupation he hated. Despite having a growing family, the mineworker had very little money with which to support them. The man was only earning eighty-eight dollars a month! He was, however, a massively talented mathematics whizz, a genius he would use for immense profit.
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Mid 20th Century Living