To think that he has won an award in the lottery and discover that it has not finally been so is one of the most frustrating sensations. Make plans with the prize money and then receive a cold jug is what happened to A man who thought he had won a prize of more than 50,000 pounds in the lottery so that he later confirmed that his numbers had not been awarded.
This story, which occurred in the United Kingdom, has continued by the British media ‘The Sun’ in which the protagonist tells how what he believed was the dream come true of power Invest the money in the house that was reforming And in spending a family vacation he was truncated.
It all started when the man decided to verify in a visit to the Tesco supermarkets if his lottery ticket had been awarded. These can be consulted in these stores, and collect even if it is a minor award. When the dependent checked his numbers A message appeared in which they told him that he would have to get in touch with the organizers of the lottery.
Everything indicated that he had won a prize of more than 50,000 euros
In the supermarket they explained that when they left That type of messages used to be because the ticket had been awarded with a major award, Normally of securities above 50,000 euros that could not pay in the store because it was too much cash.
The man tells that, for the time, He could not talk to the Loteries organization until the next morning And that spent the nervous night thinking about the prize I just won. He explains that just then he was reforming his house and that money would be good to be able to give his family a better home, in addition to a good vacation.
In short, throughout the night fantasized what I could do with so much money, But the next morning the call to the Draw administrators was like a jug of cold water for him. And is that They informed him that his numbers had not been awarded and had not won more than 50,000 euros.
I really had succeeded some numbers, he said in the middle, but for minor values, of a total of 6 pounds (about 7 euros). Although it was very confused at first from the lottery administration they explained that The message that came out on the machine did not necessarily mean that winning a major award.
According to the man, the message was finally due to the fact that when he bought the ticket “I bought one for the draw on Saturday and another for Wednesday.” When checking the ticket days later, Wednesday’s draw was still ongoing, “it seems that this was an automatic message, as would have been given in case of any victory,” explained the man “I felt completely shattered” He lamented.
The Draw’s administration clarifies that when the man tried to claim the prize, this “was in pause” when this occurs, the awards cannot be paid and that is why that message came out on the machine when the store dependent consulted whether the ticket had been awarded. They explained that That type of message not only comes out when you win in the main prize, It can appear in other situations such as the one that happened to this man.