Michigan Woman Finds $3 Million Lottery Win In 'Spam' FolderAccording To MI Lottery, She Might Not Have Realized For Awhile |
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A woman in Michigan apparently almost missed out on a $3 million lottery win.
According to the Michigan Lottery, 55-year-old Laura Spears played Mega Millions on Dec. 31 of last year and matched the five white balls in the drawing for a $1 million win. Because she used a so-called “megaplier” (a play off the world multiplier) in the game, the $1 million win was tripled to $3 million.
According to how the lottery tells it, Spears, who bought the ticket online within Michigan, didn’t consider checking her iLottery account to see if she had won.
“I saw an ad on Facebook that the Mega Millions jackpot was getting pretty high, so I got on my account and bought a ticket,” Spears said, per the MI Lottery. “A few days later, I was looking for a missing email from someone, so I checked the spam folder in my email account."
“That’s when I saw an email from the Lottery saying I had won a prize. I couldn’t believe what I was reading, so I logged in to my Lottery account to confirm the message in the email."
Would Spears have eventually checked her Lottery account if she never saw the email? It’s totally unclear, but the implication from the MI Lottery is that it would have taken her much longer to realize. Would she have ever found out?
Her ticket would have expired and been reduced to zero dollars if she didn’t claim the winnings within a full year. At any rate, bad beat averted.
Spears’ win come as the Mega Millions jackpot was in the process of growing to a pot worth $421 before being hit by a person in California on Jan. 28.
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