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Woman wins $150,000 prize on scratch-off ticket: 'I just started jumping'
A Cincinnati woman is $150,000 richer after scoring big on a scratch-off lottery ticket.Video above: Lottery scam alert, criminals using new trick as jackpots rise“I was in the midst of doing a home loan. I was worried about debt that it would put me in, but I wanted to buy, get the home. I immediately called my loan officer and told him I just won some money and I’m not going to really need the loan anymore," winner Anna Hall told lottery officials. Hall bought the Ohio Lottery’s Lady Luck 50X scratch-off ticket. She told lottery officials that after purchasing the ticket, she went to work and started to scratch off numbers. “I noticed it was (sic) 15 winners on there, but I kind of thought it was just a typical $10, right? $10 win,” she said. “So, I scratched the first one and saw it was $2,000 and, honestly, I sit back from the desk and I went to my coworker and asked her to check it, to make sure I was right, and when she did it, she showed me it was like, ‘no, that's it.’ Then, I scratched the rest of them, and I just started jumping up and down," she exclaimed. After taxes, she will take home approximately $108,000. She says she plans to use her winnings to purchase a home and use the money on her family. “I just adopted a baby. I’m in the process of adoption. She’s 8 months now, and I got her when she was three days old. So, I’m starting a college fund for her as well,” she said. Lady Luck 50X is a $10 scratch-off game that has a top prize of $500,000. As of June 14, there are three top prizes remaining in the game.
A Cincinnati woman is $150,000 richer after scoring big on a scratch-off lottery ticket.
Video above: Lottery scam alert, criminals using new trick as jackpots rise
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“I was in the midst of doing a home loan. I was worried about debt that it would put me in, but I wanted to buy, get the home. I immediately called my loan officer and told him I just won some money and I’m not going to really need the loan anymore," winner Anna Hall told lottery officials.
Hall bought the Ohio Lottery’s Lady Luck 50X scratch-off ticket. She told lottery officials that after purchasing the ticket, she went to work and started to scratch off numbers.
“I noticed it was (sic) 15 winners on there, but I kind of thought it was just a typical $10, right? $10 win,” she said. “So, I scratched the first one and saw it was $2,000 and, honestly, I sit back from the desk and I went to my coworker and asked her to check it, to make sure I was right, and when she did it, she showed me it was like, ‘no, that's it.’ Then, I scratched the rest of them, and I just started jumping up and down," she exclaimed.
After taxes, she will take home approximately $108,000.
She says she plans to use her winnings to purchase a home and use the money on her family.
“I just adopted a baby. I’m in the process of adoption. She’s 8 months now, and I got her when she was three days old. So, I’m starting a college fund for her as well,” she said.
Lady Luck 50X is a $10 scratch-off game that has a top prize of $500,000. As of June 14, there are three top prizes remaining in the game.
