READ MORE: Woman who scooped £2.3m on lottery suffers multiple nightmares since jackpot win"I never read the back of the ticket," he added, "so I didn't know that by scanning them, I earned entries into a giveaway."Because he wasn’t aware he had entered the competition, he was pretty confused when the email arrived to tell him that he had won $100,000 in the $300,000,000 Diamond Riches Second Chance drawing for August 17."I called the lottery to see what the email was about,” he said, “which is when I learned that scanning the tickets had entered me into a drawing.
It was such a surprise”.He added that he planned to use his surprise windfall to help his family out.Another Michigan Lottery winner revealed this week why they had waited until the very last minute before claiming their around £1,7m prize.The 59-year-old man from Pennsylvania had matched the Lotto 47 numbers drawn on September 25, 2021 but waited for 11 months before claiming the $2.08 million jackpot.“I purchased the ticket while I was in Michigan visiting family,” he explained to Michigan Lottery officials.
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