As soon as the ticket is purchased, the barcode is scratched and the ticket is scanned. The reward was then believed to be US$2,000, mlive.com reported, citing the truck driver.
He was shocked to see the prize amount when he looked at the ticket number again after winning the lottery. When he got back to the truck and scratched the card again, he realized that the prize was one million dollars. He said he couldn’t believe it. He then called the lottery office to confirm the prize amount.
He said he plans to use the $693,000 gift to buy a new truck. Apart from this, he added that he wanted to save the remaining amount for the future.
This is not the first time such a surprise lottery win story has gone viral on social media. Last month, a US man who initially thought he had won $600 (Rs 46,000) made big news when he later received a prize of 585,949 (Rs 4.5 crore). He found out he had hit the jackpot when he went to the lottery office to claim the $600 prize.
He used the prize money to buy a house and a car. Apart from this, he also planned to use a part of the gift for the community.
Apart from him, 32-year-old Joshua Locklear from Pembroke also won the lottery. The person who went to buy the prize money thinking that he had won the lottery of a small amount got crores. The incident took place in North Carolina, USA. At first, Locklear thought he had won $600 (about Rs. 46,000) on the lottery ticket he took. But when he went to the lottery headquarters to buy this money, he learned that instead of $600, a jackpot of $600,000 awaited Joshua. That means Joshua Locklear got about Rs 4.5 crores.
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