€126M Euro Millions lottery ticket was purchased online

May 14, 2009, 7:20 am (24 comments)

Euro Millions

Euro Million's biggest lottery winner didn't know she had won €126 million (US$170 million) because she was in bed with flu.

The lucky but ill woman was the only jackpot winner of Friday's Euro Millions drawing.

She failed to realize her numbers had come up until she dragged herself to work on Monday to save herself from being fired in recession-hit Spain.

The unnamed 25-year-old, from Majorca, said, "I still had flu on Monday but with the crisis we are going through, I decided I had to go to work anyway out of fear of losing my job."

She had bought her ticket from an internet vendor, who repeatedly tried to contact her by email and phone over the weekend.

But she ignored them all because she was sick, before finally answering their call at work.

Jose Mieres, director of the Web site serviapuestas.es, said, "When she found out, she was shocked and incredibly emotional at the same time."

"She was asking lots of questions, and we immediately put in place the protocol for these cases.  They will come to Madrid and we will tell them how to act during the first days. We will explain to them the process of collecting their winnings and we will give them financial advice if they ask for it."

The winner, who is unmarried but has a boyfriend, picked all seven numbers — 4, 23, 24, 29, 31 and lucky stars 9 and 8 — for Friday night's draw.

Friday's jackpot had rolled over six times because nobody in the six European countries where tickets are sold had matched the correct seven numbers since March 20.

She will now pick up the biggest Euro Millions jackpot check ever awarded to a single person — for €126 million.

Previous record holder, Ireland's Delores McNamara, won £77 million in 2005.

Lottery Post Staff

Comments

JackpotWanna's avatarJackpotWanna

See young people win too!  WTG!  Lucky boyfriend or is it good bye boyfriend!

gocart1's avatargocart1

CONGRATS To the lucky ill lady

  its funny that you can,t use an american credit card to buy euro millions tickets ,but you can use the same cerdit card to buy all the american lottery tickets you want ,on line.whats wrong with this picture.

gocart1's avatargocart1

Quote: Originally posted by gocart1 on May 14, 2009

CONGRATS To the lucky ill lady

  its funny that you can,t use an american credit card to buy euro millions tickets ,but you can use the same cerdit card to buy all the american lottery tickets you want ,on line.whats wrong with this picture.

hey TODD,,,,,,thanks again for the write-up...US Flag

wizeguy's avatarwizeguy

Congrats to the lucky winner!

petergrfn

Awesome!  Congrats to the winner!  She is set......I would try and get out of Spain as soon as possible.  If she would like to come to America...I would be glad to show her around!  LOL

Halle99's avatarHalle99

PartyWOW Lucky woman......My turn next.....

diamondpalace's avatardiamondpalace

Amazing. Congrats to her!

marlon39's avatarmarlon39

Congratulations Thumbs Up

MaddMike51

If thats what it takes to win a jackpot,then bring on the flu.I can put up with a little vomiting and diarhera for that kind of money!

foragoodcause's avatarforagoodcause

She gave me a great idea,i will buy my ticket online too!

ThatScaryChick's avatarThatScaryChick

Congrats to her!

cashmoney$girl's avatarcashmoney$girl

Some people have all the luck! can anyone tell me if there' re having problems with betslip.com.

Dollar419's avatarDollar419

Congratulations to the big jackpot winner...she is very very lucky.

maringoman's avatarmaringoman

Quote: Originally posted by gocart1 on May 14, 2009

CONGRATS To the lucky ill lady

  its funny that you can,t use an american credit card to buy euro millions tickets ,but you can use the same cerdit card to buy all the american lottery tickets you want ,on line.whats wrong with this picture.

No you can't. Buying American lottery tickets is a strictly cash affair. I'm surprised nobody corrected you unless I am wrong and guys will come out to correct me.

 

Yeah at 25 the young lady with no children has time and energy to put the money to good use, I wish her success in that.

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