Instantly $400,000 richer: American receives fake lottery ticket and wins jackpot

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Michael Sopejstal, 60, from Illinois, recently had some unexpected luck: because a gas station employee handed him the wrong ticket, he collected almost $400,000 (the equivalent of 352,000 Swiss francs). This was reported by ‘USA Today’, among others.

Sopejstal, who travels to Michigan every few weeks, made the lucky purchase in New Buffalo in September this year: “I always buy a Lucky for Life ticket for 10 or 20 draws when I’m here,” said the American.

“It was an incredible feeling”

Instead of the desired 10 draws, the employee accidentally printed him a ticket with 10 different number combinations for one draw. Sopejstal noticed the mistake, but decided to keep the ticket anyway.

He had no idea at the time that this decision would cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars. “But one morning I checked my ticket and saw that I had won $25,000 per year per lifetime. I immediately thought of all the things I could do with the money. “It was an incredible feeling,” the happy man said in a statement.

The numbers that helped him achieve his mega win were 11, 15, 17, 24 and 48. Instead of the annual payout, Sopejstal had the winnings paid out in the form of a one-time payment of $390,000 instead of $25,000 for lifetime dollars. annual.

Sopejstal already knows what he will do with all the winnings: he will travel and put the rest in his savings account. (dzc)

Source: Blick