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Not A Scam: Woodbridge Lottery Winner Stunned By $4.3 Million Prize
A Woodbridge man who played a lottery game online couldn't believe he won $4.3 million.
WOODBRIDGE, VA — When Woodbridge resident Manoj Chhetry first saw he won millions of dollars in the Virginia Lottery, he thought it was a scam.
Chhetry decided to play some online games during a quiet evening at home. That ultimately led to the $4,303,499 jackpot prize in the Merry Money Mania game.
Thinking the prize could be a scam, he called his wife to check that she saw the same prize.
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"I didn’t know what happened!" Chhetry told Virginia Lottery officials.
It turned out to be a real prize. Merry Money Mania is one of the Virginia Lottery's online instant games with a growing jackpot as more people play. The odds of winning any prize in the game are 1 in 3.74.
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