It sounds crazy, but throwing away a winning lottery ticket is not an uncommon occurrence. In fact, lots of interesting news stories have popped up in recent years that involve lottery winners throwing away their winning tickets. These stories usually come to fruition after the winner miraculously recovers the ticket and collects the winnings, but what about all the instances that happen without such fairy tale endings? With millions of lottery winnings going unclaimed every year, is it not possible that many of these no-shows were due to players throwing out winning tickets?
Take this one story for example, which was summarized in an online article by CBS News. A man in Georgia had purchased multiple lotto tickets, two of which were winning tickets worth $5k each, but had asked a store clerk to throw them away because he mistakenly thought they were losers. It wasn’t until later that the man had an epiphany and ran back to the store to double-check those tickets, which were then in a trash can. After searching with the store clerk to not avail, the man left the store. Later, the clerk remembered throwing the tickets away in a different trash can, and recovered them for the man.
If it wasn’t for that store clerk’s extra efforts, those tickets would have been part of the unclaimed winner statistic. LotteryBank makes sure all players claim their winnings when they are due by tracking all ticket results. Join now for free at http://lotterybankonline.com/.
If it wasn’t for that store clerk’s extra efforts, those tickets would have been part of the unclaimed winner statistic. LotteryBank makes sure all players claim their winnings when they are due by tracking all ticket results. Join now for free at http://lotterybankonline.com/.