March 1 (UPI) —<\/span> An Australian woman found out she had won a lottery jackpot of more than $70,000 after multiple days of dodging phone calls that she assumed were scammers.<\/p>\n The Frenchs Forest, New South Wales, woman told The Lott officials she bought a ticket for the Feb. 25 Lucky Lotteries drawing at thelott.com, but forgot to check her account after the drawing.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Lottery officials tried contacting the winner by phone, but the woman ignored the calls for several days, assuming they were scam-related.<\/p>\n “I received some phone calls and emails straight after the draw, but I didn’t recognize the phone number or email, so I didn’t answer or take any notice! I said to myself, ‘It’s definitely a scam,'” the woman recalled.<\/p>\n “I ignored the phone calls and emails for a few days, and then, eventually, I decided to log in to my online The Lott account. It all started to make sense when I discovered I’d won.”<\/p>\n The woman won a jackpot of $72,580.50. The winner said she still is thinking about how to use her prize money.<\/p>\n “I’ll have to take everything in first and wait for the prize to land into the bank account before I can decide what I’ll spend it on, but I know it will go to good use,” she said.\n<\/p>\n “I’ve been playing for about 10 years now, so I’m just so excited to have won a major lottery prize!”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A New South Wales, Australia, woman bought a ticket for the Feb. 25 Lucky Lotteries drawing online, but didn’t realize she had won a jackpot of over $70,000 for several days because she assumed phone calls and emails from lottery officials were scams. Photo courtesy of The Lott March 1 (UPI) — An Australian woman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1007646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nA New South Wales, Australia, woman bought a ticket for the Feb. 25 Lucky Lotteries drawing online, but didn’t realize she had won a jackpot of over $70,000 for several days because she assumed phone calls and emails from lottery officials were scams. Photo courtesy of The Lott<\/p>\n