Winning the lottery is a reason for joy, but winning a millionaire fortune that can end any economic problem is even more, but how it would sit that at the same time winning the lottery you lost it. Jane Dos (which is a fictional name) has happened to him. This 83 -year -old retiree began to cry with joy when he learned that he had earned 71.5 million euros in the lottery. But this infinite joy hard little, since after several months the old woman still does not see a penny of the prize and worst of all, is that she is not possible to see it.
Everything begins on February 17, 2025, when Jane Doe decides to buy a tenth lottery at the Lotto Texas, which is something like the primitive in Spain. But, and this is where the problem comes, the retiree decided to go to technology and take out the ticket through the mobile application, this Jackpocket Lottery being. Comfortable, fast, seemingly safe … In principle, everything was going well. In principle.
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After doing so, the retiree smiles and observes that her numbers coincide exactly with the draws and it is at that time when she realizes that she has become a millionaire. But, just a week after this magical moment, the Texas lottery decides to suspend the use of non -regulated third -party services for the purchase of lottery tickets that, chance, was where this woman had bought her ticket.
The decision has made this retiree be in a kind of legal vacuum, since its tenth bought it after the draw, but the norm entered into force before collecting it, so now its astronomical prize has been frozen, so this pensioner is trapped and for the company a saving of 71.5 million euros.
A millionaire prize that will end in court
As is normal, the retiree has decided to file a lawsuit against the Texas lottery, for having denied the collection of her prize, which I buy before this rule will enter. His lawyers explain that “it is not legal to change the rules of the game after the winning numbers have been raffled.” The lawsuit also says that the lottery tries to retroactively deprive the winner of what corresponds to the prohibit the application used just at the time of the prize.
Now justice must resolve in a process that will take months or even years and for this 83 -year -old retiree, his time is worth “never better” gold, so he wants the judicial process to take as soon as possible and enjoy his prize who alleges that he has won “just.”
Now, while she is a retiree glimpses on the horizon the possibility not to collect the prize, there are others with greater luck, such as this 81 -year -old retiree, than to collect a lottery prize of 44,000 euros and discovers that another of 88,000 has played and what alleges “was my day.”