Junk mail fail! Michigan nurse almost missed out on $3m lottery jackpot after email notification telling her she'd won ended up in her SPAM folder Laura Spears, 55, bought a lottery ticket online containing the winning numbers for a December 31 drawing She didn't realize she was a multimillionaire until she happened to be searching her spam folder days later in pursuit of a wayward email That's when she discovered a congratulatory note from the state lottery 'I couldn't believe what I was reading, so I logged in to my lottery account to confirm the message in the email,' she said
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A Michigan nurse says she's adding the state lottery to her 'safe senders' list after an email notifying her of a $3 million jackpot win landed in her spam folder.
Laura Spears, 55, matched the five winning numbers - 2, 5, 30, 46 and 61 - in a New Year's Eve drawing worth $1 million. Her good fortune tripled to $3 million thanks to a bonus called 'Megaplier,'
The Oakland County woman said she bought a ticket online ahead of the drawing and, days later, happened to be scouring her