Friday 12 August 2022 12:49 PM EuroMillions couple thought email telling them they had won £1million prize ... trends now

A lucky couple are celebrating scooping £1 million on the lottery after almost forgetting to buy a ticket and then believing their win was a scam.

Ruth Giblin, 44, and husband Rob, 48, of Telford, Shropshire, landed the huge windfall after matching one of the UK Millionaire Maker codes on the EuroMillions last month.

But Mrs Giblin almost forgot to buy the winning ticket on the day of the draw on July 22 and needed reminding by her husband, an engineer, while she went out to do karate.

And when she received a notification on the National Lottery app the following day, the sceptical pair thought they were being scammed.

It was only when they called up Camelot to confirm their win that they realised they had become millionaires and immediately burst into tears.

Mrs Giblin said: 'Rob reminded me to put the EuroMillions ticket on, as he has to every week, whilst I was out.

'I bought it and promptly forgot all about the ticket and went straight to Karate that evening.

'The next morning, we got up early for a swim and I saw I had an email telling me I had good news about my ticket.

'When I logged into my National Lottery app, I could see I had only matched one number, but it was telling me I had won £1 million, I was very confused.'

Mrs Giblin, a leisure centre supervisor, was convinced it was a con so proceeded to search for the phone number she needed to ring to check the win was real.

She added: 'I was sure it was a scam, but when I saw it was the correct number for Camelot, I tried to phone it, only to find they were not yet open.

'Instead of waiting around, we decided to still go swimming. Although it was clearly all we could think about as every so often, Rob would stop and say, 'what if it is real?!'.

'We talked all the way home about what we would do if it was true but I was trying not to get my hopes up.