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OFW lotto bettors

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September 10, 2015 | 10:00am

LOTTO. Did you know that many OFWs especially those in the Middle East are regular bettors in the Phl lotto? This an Ear informer learned from the wife of an OFW in Saudi Arabia whose husband is a big lotto bettor.

INCOME. Our Ear informer learned that OFWs betting in lotto do so in the hope that they could earn some more to give their families at home a "much better" life, like giving them such luxuries as a nice house, a car, and other things worth showing off to neighbors.

 

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