Michigan woman finds e-mail for $3 million lottery prize in spam folder

Comment #17

Unluckyone — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:36:12 GMT

It's a good thing that she had an account and played online as most of us don't but yet we receive so many lottery prize alerts which fortunately are almost always in the spam folder.

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Speler — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:52:14 GMT

I heard that they used to eat french fries with vinegar in England. We had those with mayonnaise, today with other sauces.

Comment #15

Bleudog101 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:28:31 GMT

There...found the fourteen Super Cashing Agents as they're called in KY. Can cash up to $25K and conveniently located throughout the state.

Comment #14

Bleudog101 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:00:05 GMT

Yes, a regular email saying Congratulations you won $____ on such and such a lottery comes. Something happened on one of my wins and IGT(RI) had to call an outfit that ICR name of in Chicago to get the funds transferred to my bank account. Then all was good

Good point about the $25K wins on a virtual ticket. They do have several locations throughout the state of KY that will cash up to $25K---though couldn't find it on-line 3 days ago. The two next city over only cash up to $5K on paper... [ More ]

Comment #13

dannyct — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 04:18:36 GMT

I play online and I enjoy getting an email stating, You've won a prize on ..... Sign into your account to find out more. Up to now, I have only small amounts, but hopefully one day. At least I can't loose my ticket.

Comment #12

Tony Numbers — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:23:08 GMT

How come the news story makes it seem that if she deleted the e mail she would have lost out on the prize. She has an online account and the game was purchased. I'm sure they would have tried to notify her again. Pure media sensationalism

Comment #11

Artist77 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:10:02 GMT

Lol lol

Comment #10

rdgrnr — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:58:46 GMT

My neighbor Virgil McNutt eats Spam with Vinegar.

I ain't never tried it my own self.

Comment #9

Artist77 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:40:23 GMT

When you log into your online state lottery account, there is a pop up message as well (if you won any amount).

Comment #8

Stack47 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:20:21 GMT

Apparently not many people here live in states where they can play Online or those that do never signed up. In KY they will send conformation of bets and then a notification of any winnings.

I'd like to hear the payment process from anyone winning over $600 paying Online. Prizes over $25,000 probably require a trip to lottery headquarters, just like in Michigan.

Comment #7

Bleudog101 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:12:41 GMT

Here we are encouraged to add KLC to your acceptable emails so they do not go to scam. Never won anymore than $500 playing on-line, but it went through regular email as directed, not Spam.

Comment #6

kao1632 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:56:01 GMT

Personally. in New Zealand, i go to the lottery site after a draw and check to see if I have won anything. I don't wait for an email...

Comment #5

winsumloosesum — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:24:28 GMT

Why didn't they send her a certified letter or call her?

Most emails will go to the spam folder and we end up deleting them all.

Especially the spam emails that inform you that someone has left you a large sum of money and you need to contact XXX.

Glad she was able to get he $$$

Congrats

Comment #4

Raven62 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:48:10 GMT

Congrats to the Winner!

Check Your Junk Mail Folder: You Might be a Winner Too

Comment #3

Ranett — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:42:17 GMT

Great job

Comment #2

Bleudog101 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:06:36 GMT

She didn't have to...read the article. It was a virtual ticket purchased on-line.

Congratulations to her and nice chunk of change.

Comment #1

MsBee18 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:49:43 GMT

She found the email but did she produce the ticket

Michigan woman finds e-mail for $3 million lottery prize in spam folder

Lottery Post — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:05:46 GMT

Check your spam folder!

By Kate Northrop

An email from the Michigan Lottery about a $3 million prize sat in a woman's spam folder, but thankfully she did not mistake it for trash.

Can you imagine accidentally deleting an email from the Lottery alerting you that you won a multi-million-dollar prize? Thanks to the watchful eye of Laura Spears, 55, an email congratulating her on a $3 million prize was rescued from her spam folder.

Spears had entered the Mega Millions drawing on De... [ More ]