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Lotto winner notified by phone

Staff WriterHills Avon Valley Gazette

IMAGINE getting a phone call to tell you you’d won a million dollars.

That’s what happened to a woman in her 40s after she bought a ticket from Warricks Newsagency in Northam for Saturday’s Million-Yeah draw in July.

The winner said moments after learning about her Saturday Lotto win, she also discovered she was going to be a grandmother.

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“I got a call from Lotterywest asking if I had checked my ticket,” she said.

“I didn’t think it was me, I’m one of those I’ll-wait-until-I-see-it types of people.”

Lotterywest spokesperson Hermione Coleman said this winner’s story was proof it paid to be a registered player.

“We have been waiting for more than two weeks to greet our Northam winner, so we decided to put in a call to help them discover their new fortune,” Ms Coleman said.

“A Division One winner from Karratha is yet to come forward, their Saturday Lotto ticket is worth around $790,000, but we can’t contact them as they’re not registered.”