A spam email led woman to win Rs 1.73?crore lottery prize by playing online games

An American woman was unaware that winning the lottery would result in a payout of $207,199 (roughly Rs. 1.73 crore). The Macomb County player informed Michigan Lottery authorities that she was first sceptical of the email, which she discovered in her spam folder.

Who is the woman who won the lottery from a spam email??

54-year-old woman, who preferred to remain nameless, was unaware | Image: Canva

It turns out that the 54-year-old woman, who preferred to remain nameless, was unaware that the lotteries she played were winning her drawing entries for the Second Chance games.

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"I didn't know that by playing certain games online I was earning entries into a Second Chance drawing, so I was confused when I came across an email from the Michigan Lottery in my spam folder saying I'd won a $207,199 BIG CA$H Second Chance jackpot prize," she explained.

How did the woman discover that the email was authentic??

The player stated that she researched more into how the incentives work and discovered that the message was indeed authentic | Image: Canva

The player stated that she researched more into how the incentives work and discovered that the message was indeed authentic.

"After looking into it, I figured out how I had earned the entries, and then I checked three different times to make sure the email was real," she recalled.

"This win is so exciting and couldn't have come at a better?time," the player added. The quinquagenarian plans to invest her winnings and use part of it to pay bills.

Also read:?Man earns lottery worth Rs 8.3 crores, all thanks to his dream of buying diamonds

When have people won the lottery in unusual ways???

Earlier, a dream about playing the Massachusetts Lottery led a man to win a $1 million in jackpot in the USA. Howard Kendall Jr. said he dreamt of buying a $10 4,000,000 Diamonds scratch-off ticket, so he decided to go a 7-Eleven Store in his hometown, Plymouth, to make it come true.

Many people have won lottery in unusual ways | Image: Canva

The numbers on his ticket matched those of the first prize, leading to the massive win.?Not long before that, a woman said the itchy palm superstition convinced her to buy a ticket on a day she had no plans of playing, and ended up getting her a $50,000?Maryland Lottery prize.

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