Canadian Wins Lottery and Gets Amazing Surprise

 

A Toronto woman celebrating what she thought was a $40,000  lottery prize had in fact won $40 million. Maria Carreiro, 51, said she "ran down the street like a crazy woman" after her daughter looked online and discovered the prize's  true amount.

Among her plans for the winnings were a Hawaii honeymoon after 30 years of marriage and a larger house. Ms Carreiro had worked at a factory before quitting to raise her children. She said her husband had already left his job.

"I couldn't believe it," Ms Carreiro told reporters. "I was shaking and just couldn't believe that it was real."

Ms Carreiro bought the LottoMax ticket for a Friday drawing and checked her ticket at the store on Saturday morning. Thinking she won forty thousand dollars she hurried home to tell her family about their good fortune. She was excited about her prize. Just to be sure there was no mistake, her daughter checked online, expecting to see her mother's news verified. She found, instead that her mother had made a multi-million dollar mistake. The family was stunned and couldn't comprehend their astonishing win. Then all heck broke loose.

According to Ontario Lottery and Gaming, 60% of winners of more than $1million paid off debts, 56% took a vacation, 36% bought a new house and 43% either retired, changed jobs or quit.