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Euromillions lottery jackpot win of £120,000, still unclaimed

Written by Claudine   
Sunday, 13 September 2009 21:51

EuroMillionsYou would think if you had won £120,000 on the Euromillions lottery that you might actually know about it and would have contacted Camelot to arrange for payment of your massive lottery win. The National Lottery Euromillions winner from Friday August 28th however has failed to come forward to claim the prize, and the National Lottery are appealing for the winner of the lottery game to come forward. The winner is believed to come from the Dundee area and won the jackpot with the numbers 8, 36, 37, 41 and 49, and is also believed to have won by matching the five main numbers in the draw.

National Lottery winner may not know

A report on the BBC website indicated that the winner has won with five of the main lottery draw numbers and it is likely that the winner is unaware of their lucky Euromillions lottery win.  The unknown lottery winners has until February to claim their jackpot prize win after this time the lottery win will be added to the good caused charity fund. So what do you do if you think you are the big lottery winner?  Well first of all make sure that you are entirely sure that your lottery ticket matched the date of the big win, no point getting yourself all over excited for nothing! Once you have determined that you are in fact holding the winning lottery ticket, it might be wise to pour yourself a brandy or makes yourself a sweet cup of tea to help deal with the shock, then you will need to contact the National Lottery Customer Care Team.  The ways to claim a National lottery win depends really on the sums involved, a large win like the £120,000 one above will need to be claimed by calling the lottery Care Team, this number can be found on the National Lottery website and is the correct number for all wins over £5,000.  Once a claim is made and confirmed a cheque will be paid to the lucky lottery winner.

Another unknown lottery winner in Croydon has won over £1m

It is interesting to visit the National Lottery site to see how many large lottery wins have not been claimed, in fact there is one winner who purchased a ticket in Croydon for the Lotto game on 16th May 2009 who has still not come forward to claim their whopping £1,316,472.  The unknown lottery winner has until 12th November to claim their prize and after that it will go to good causes, quick check your purses and wallets for old lottery tickets now, the winning numbers were 1,5,9,27,42,45 and bonus number of 21.

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