Several Romanians seem to have found the prefect recipe for a sure bet: they used the hour change last Sunday to win bets on the Greek Lottery results.

Romania switched to daylight saving time last weekend, which means that the clocks advanced one hour. And apparently a group of Romanians used the time change to win some money.

A betting agency in Gorj county, in southwestern Romania, claims that it lost a big amount of money after some clients took advantage of the fact that the agency’s computer system wasn’t automatically updated to the new time, and bought tickets to the Greek Lottery after finding the results online, reports local Mediafax.

“A person in the agency noticed that the computer system wasn’t automatically updated to the daylight saving time and placed several tickets for the Greek Lottery draws, after he had probably seen the results online. Without suspecting anything abnormal, the agency’s employee paid winnings of tens of thousands of RON until the agency had no more funds,” reads a statement from SC Baum SRL, the company that owns the betting agency.

Agency representatives say that the lucky client also called some other friends, who came to the agency to place bets at the same event.

As they all won and the agency ran out of funds, the winners started to get frustrated and called the police. That was the time when the representatives of SC Baum SRL started to elucidate the mystery of all those winning tickets, and realized what had happened. Thus, under the rules of the game, they decided to award a 1 odds to this event, which means that those who placed the bets can get their money back, but not the alleged gains.

The company says that it can prove the fraud with the tickets that also show the hour when they were issued. According to the representatives of the betting agency, the hour on the tickets shows that the tickets were issued after the lottery draw in Greece.

The company also plans to address to the police to recover the damage.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com