A woman in Western North Carolina becomes a millionaire after trying her luck on a $30 scratch-off. When Elizabeth Rathburn picked up a $30 North Carolina Lottery Fabulous Fortune scratch-off game from the convenience store down the road from her home in Candler, she couldn’t have known that she’d win one of the game’s four remaining $3-million top prizes.
After realizing she’d hit the jackpot, Rathburn, 36, headed to the NC Lotto headquarters in Raleigh to claim her dough. She was given a choice between receiving her winnings in yearly payments of $150-thousand over the next 20 years or as a lump sum of $1.8-million. She chose the lump sum and after taxes, took home over $1.2-million.
The odds of winning the Fabulous Fortune game’s top prize are approximately 1 in 1.8-million. Rathburn is the third person to win one of the six available $3-million top prizes since the game was introduced this summer.
Source: WLOS