New Jersey woman wins $5million on mistaken scratch card ticket

NEW JERSEY WOMAN WINS $5MILLION ON MISTAKEN SCRATCH CARD TICKET

A woman from New Jersey has won a huge top prize on a scratch card ticket which she purchased by mistake after being handed the wrong one by a cashier.Oksana Zaharov, a mother of two from New Jersey was shopping in Manhattan, New York, and visited a convenience store and decided to buy a scratch card ticket on a whim. Despite choosing a specific lottery ticket, the cashier in the store handed Ms Zaharov a ‘Set for Life’ scratch card instead, one which cost more than she’d wanted to spend. A car salesman from Harlow in England bought the wrong lottery ticket and ended up with a EuroMillions prize of over £50,000.“When the clerk handed me the wrong scratch card I felt bad, so I decided to just go ahead and buy it,” the New York Lottery winner told officials. A lottery syndicate from Maryland bought tickets for the wrong game and ended up winning $50,000 on the Bonus Match 5. The 45-year-old then took the scratch card home and forgot about it for a while, “I actually used the ticket as a bookmark for a couple weeks before I decided to scratch it,” she said.Ms Zaharov, from Edgewater, New Jersey, said that once she did actually get around scratching the ticket, she was convinced it was a prank. Another New York Set for Life winner said he felt very lucky after winning $5 million.“I never win anything,” she told New York lottery officials. “I was sure the ticket was fake. It wasn’t until I brought it into the office that I knew it was for real. A Maryland lottery player was convinced her scratch card was a fake when it won $50,000.Now, the scratch off winner will take her $5 million across the next 20 years, and after that she will receive $172,068 per year for the rest of her life. She plans to take her family on a deserved vacation to the Bahamas as well as fund both of her children through college. Another recent New Jersey lottery winner celebrated his Mega Millions prize at McDonald’s and Wendy’s.Try your hand at the lottery game and purchase your tickets online at Lottery24.com.