A viewer won thousands of dollars in the lottery, but he was running into a wall trying to collect his prize, that’s why he called Telemundo 52 Responde.
Mr. José Manuel Pérez said that when he went to collect his prize, the young man who attended him tore the ticket by mistake, but even so, a prize can be recovered.
“I had already won a $2 million prize before,” Perez said.
And this time, Mr. Perez won $5,000 with a Scratchers, Mystery Crossword lottery ticket, but when trying to confirm it with the person who sold it, the young man did something that took Mr. Perez’s breath away.
“He grabs the tickets, puts them in the machine, and he tore it up,” he said.
The problem, it seems, is that, although the prize was $5,000, the young man thought it was $500, an amount that he could have paid right there, but if the prize is greater than $599, it must be sent to the offices of the California Lottery. And although the ticket was in pieces, Mr. Pérez said that the boy calmed him down a bit.
A ticket with five numbers, but no Mega number, in Tuesday night’s drawing for the multi-state Mega Millions lottery has been sold at a liquor store in Glendale and is worth $245,984, the California Lottery announced.
“Don’t worry, these things have already happened to me. I grab duct tape and he glued it on, and he gave it to me,” Mr. Perez said.
Confident, Mr. Pérez went to a California Lottery office and filled out the form to collect his winning ticket.
There they also gave him good news, despite the fact that his ticket was torn.
“Maybe it will take a little longer, six, seven, eight weeks, and I said it was fine, for the same reason they were going to investigate,” he added.
But the time took too long.
“Months passed, I was talking, they gave me the same answer, well you have to wait,” said Mr. Pérez.
When half a year passed without a response, Mr. José Manuel decided to call Telemundo 52 Responde.
Telemundo 52 Responde contacted the California Lottery office, where they immediately investigated what was happening, and informed Mr. Pérez that the process had been delayed, because an in-depth analysis had to be done to verify that the ticket was genuine. , but before long, they finally handed over their $5,000.
The case of Mr. Perez is an important reminder to always be careful with your lottery tickets. A recommendation is always to take a picture of them, front and back, to have proof in case you lose them, and of course, do not allow someone else to break them, even if you already collect it.
