OCEANA COUNTY, MI — An Oceana County woman turned a $100 online prize into a $1 million prize playing the Michigan Lottery’s Millionaire Raffle game, according to lottery officials.
The lucky 63-year-old player, who chose to remain anonymous, bought her raffle ticket online at MichiganLottery.com.
"I won $100 playing an online game, so I decided to use some of my winnings to purchase Powerball and Mega Millions tickets online," the woman said. "When I was purchasing those tickets, I saw the Millionaire Raffle game and thought: ‘Why not?’ and purchased one ticket."
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The woman said that she had forgotten about the raffle ticket until I saw an email from the Lottery one day with information on claiming my prize.
"I didn’t believe it when I logged into my Lottery account and saw a $1 million prize pending," the woman said. "I logged out and logged back in several times and the prize was still there, so I knew it had to be real. I am still trying to wrap my head around it!"
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She said she plans to save her winnings.
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