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Michigan lotto winner learns she won $207K prize from email in spam folder
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We ignored 'spam' lottery emails until we found out we get $12K a month for the next year

A Michigan woman discovered that she won a $207,199 lottery prize from a suspicious-looking email in her spam folder. The 54-year-old winner from Macomb County, who chose to remain anonymous, initially dismissed the email because she did not realize that her name had automatically been entered for the drawing of the BIG CA$H Second Chance Jackpot prize.

“I didn’t know that by playing certain games online I was earning entries into a second chance drawing, so I was confused when I came across an email from the Michigan Lottery in my spam folder saying I’d won a $207,199 BIG CA$H Second Chance jackpot prize,” the womanHistorian who predicted almost every election since 1984 gives take on Trump-Harris matchup John 'Junior' Gotti rages at reporter as wife, daughter plead not guilty — again — in alleged slur-filled LI basketball brawl Director of Heritage Foundation's controversial 'Project 2025' steps down as Trump campaign calls for its 'demise'“After looking into it, I figured out how I had earned the entries, and then I checked three different times to make sure the email was real,” she said.She plans to pay off some bills and make some investments with the windfall. Portions of every purchase of certain Michigan Lottery online games fund a progressive jackpot prize which is awarded in a second chance drawing each month. Since the BIG CA$H Second Chance games launched in 2022, players have won more than $8 million in progressive prizes, according to the lottery.John 'Junior' Gotti rages at reporter as wife, daughter plead not guilty -- again -- in alleged slur-filled LI basketball brawl Director of Heritage Foundation's controversial 'Project 2025' steps down as Trump campaign calls for its 'demise'Simone Biles reluctantly reveals brazen USA gymnastics team name after winning gold in Paris‘Today’s Hoda Kotb Suffers A Wardrobe Malfunction At The Paris Olympics — And Fixes It With A Stapler

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