A woman discovers she has won over R$16 million in a raffle after looking into an email spam box – Mundo

for North America Laura Spears, a resident of Oakland, Michigan, discovered in an unusual way that she had a good amount to receive. When she opened the spam section of her inbox, she discovered that she had won $3 million in the lottery, an amount equal to just over 16 million Brazilian Real.

The award came from raffle prize December 31, 2021 Mega Millions event for which you bought a ticket on the Michigan lottery website. You got it right five numbers In the raffle and even the prize is multiplied by three on the Megaplier account.

“I saw an ad on Facebook that the Mega Millions jackpot was getting too high, so I logged into my account and bought a ticket,” the 55-year-old told lottery officials.

Scare on email

But the surprise did not come until days after the end of the year. “A few days later, I was looking for a missing email from someone, so I checked Spam file On my email account,” he commented, explaining that he still found it shocking to win the amount in the raffle.

Spears withdrew the lottery prize only last week, with plans to help her family with money and even put them back into retirement. “I definitely added the Michigan Lottery to my wish list. messengers Insurance in case you are lucky enough to receive another email about a big prize,” he joked about the situation.