£113m Euromillions ticket

[R1Geezer]

According to the front page of the Express, the bloke's lost the ticket! How could you live the rest of your life after that? What councelling would help there?

[squarebear]

According to other sites, over 1000 people have claimed. I would treat his tale with a pinch of salt.

[tastymorsel]

I think if you can state where and when you bought your ticket you can still claim it.

[sandyRoe]

He could state the time, date, and place where it was bought. That might do the lottery people.

[R1Geezer]

I remember the couple that won the UK lottery a couple of years ago and lst the ticket and they knew were when etc but they could not claim the prize.

[squarebear]

You need the ticket to claim, otherwise everyman and his dog might as well pop into the local lottery shop and try to claim a tenner each week.

[sandyRoe]

They didn't get their prize because they didn't claim until the 6 month period had elapsed.

[chelle7272]

Accoding to Camelot you can still claim if lost but it has to be within 30 days there are very stringent checks made and if there is not sufficient evidence they won't pay out.

Best buy tickets in a shop with cameras....

[R1Geezer]

Not true sandy, it was all over the news, for 6 months while they tried to find the ticket, they even went to the local land fill site! Camelot worked with them inthere own words to see if they could find a way to pay out. trying to find a link.

[mike11111]

Shortly after the National Lottery started (and I believe this is true) a man bought a ticket using the winning numbers from the previous week. He then cut and pasted these onto a ticket dated for the current draw and went off to Camelot to claim his prize. Upon arrival he was immediatley arrested.

[dotty.]

The store may have cameras for one thing, the shop can look at the back office journal and identify the exact transaction and so f he bought anything else with the ticket it would identify him. But don't know what the rules are for paying out on alost ticket, as the machines need to read the ticket to veryfy the payout.
http://www.independen...y-payouts-684612.html

[mike11111]

This sort of thing occasionally used to happen with Football Pools when coupons were lost in the post or not handed in by dishonest collectors who kept all the stake money.

[joggerjayne]

The "lost ticket" people should just write it off to experience ...

... and have another try next week.

[jacksprat16]

get over it