A young man won a considerable amount of money playing the lottery - but he almost didn't find out that he had financially taken care of for now.
Sydney - "We'll never win, only old people win", with this sentence that he said to a friend, a young lottery player was now well off.
As reported by the
Daily Mail
, he and another lucky guy had won 40 million Australian dollars each in the Australian “Powerball” lottery, which corresponds to around 25.7 million euros.
While the first winner could be notified of his win by phone shortly after the drawing and had already knowingly become a millionaire, it took a little longer for the second candidate - he initially continued to work normally in his small company, without any benefit from his luck knowledge.
Lotto win in Australia: error prevented winning notification
On the news he heard that the second winner had not yet been reached, but that it might be himself did not occur to him at first.
"They said there was a call but I didn't get a call," he told the
Daily Mail
.
In fact, when filling out the lottery ticket, he made a serious mistake that prevented the “Powerball” managers from reaching him: Although he had guessed the correct numbers, when filling out the field for the telephone number, he had made a number reversal .
So it's no wonder he didn't get a call.
At some point he compared his ticket with the numbers drawn - and realized that the second win would probably belong to him.
This realization felt like a "hurricane", tears ran down his face.
Lotto millionaire: that's what he intends to do with his money
He still can't quite believe how much money he won there, he jokes: "I always thought a few million dollars would be good, but that's seven or eight times as much".
However, he is now approaching his life as a millionaire cautiously - he would like to first pay off his house “and then I'll keep looking”.
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In contrast, it took a Scot only eight years to use up a profit of 44 million.
