You Have £1,000,000 in your in-box

If you play an online lottery game, and you give them your email address then the chances are that you would look at and open an email saying “Congratulations, You’ve won £1million”. Otherwise, you might be tempted to press Shift-Delete reckoning it was a lottery scam.

Lucky Halifax Bank employee, Phung Ngu, aged 29, decided to check just such an email that appeared in her Hotmail junk bin, just in case. But still, she couldn’t believe it was true, so she contacted the free-to-play games site Fair Exchange, whose site runs on free-lottery.net, just to see if it could possibly be true. She’s played their Daily Draw online lottery game for 3 years but was so excited that she had a mental block when she had to provide her password. Luckily she remembered it in time.

Meanwhile, as a Daily Draw spokesperson said “We were worried when Phung did not respond to the email, because we had no other contact number for her, and we wanted her to know about her £1m win straight away. We’d decided to look for a home phone number and were praying it was not ex-directory, when she finally contacted us.”

Phung says it is lucky she’d had got in touch, as if the company had called home she would not have been there as she has two jobs and works long hours, and her mum doesn’t speak English.

Now Phung says she’s not going to stop working, or stop playing the games that have won her many smaller prizes previously, but she is going to pay back a £10,000 loan she took out to help her brother start a business, and she is going to get a financial advisor to help her plan how to invest the money wisely. And, she has a love of Swarovski crystal animals and flowers, so she is going to splash out some of her winnings on something sparkly to add to her collection