A Michigan woman nearly missed out on her $3 million prize because her notification email landed in her spam folder.
Laura Spears, 55, bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket online, correctly picking the five white balls drawn on New Year's Eve β 02-05-30-46-61. With those picks, she won the game's $1 million second-place prize that a separate drawing multiplied to $3 million.
βI saw an ad on Facebook that the Mega Millions jackpot was getting pretty high, so I got on my account and bought a ticket,β Spears told MiLotteryConnect. βA few days later, I was looking for a missing email from someone, so I checked the spam folder in my email account."
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