Norway lottery operator apologises to 47,000 people it told they won in error

Norsk Tipping informed thousands of people they won huge sums of money after mistake in currency conversions

Norwegian lottery bosses have sent a text message apologising to tens of thousands of disappointed players who were accidentally told they had won large sums of money.

Norsk Tipping, the state-owned gambling operator, had previously admitted “several thousand” people had mistakenly been told on Friday they had won life-changing sums of money after an error in converting the sum from euros to Norwegian kroner, but it was not until Monday, three days later, that a text message was sent to 47,000 people apologising for the error.