December 9 - Most lottery jackpot winners learn about their good fortune by
watching lottery draws live, by checking their tickets at lottery retailers or
by being called by fellow lottery syndicate members, but for one English
lottery syndicate, popular social networking website Facebook was the bearer
of good news.
It seems that 22 members of the syndicate learned of their good fortune when
they went into Facebook and saw that their lottery syndicate leader Paul
Cotter had changed his status to: 'We've won £2,625,215 on the Lotto. This is
not a joke. Please call me, anyone who is in the syndicate, as soon as
possible.'
Most of the 23-person lottery syndicate work for Servisair at Terminal 3 of
Heathrow Airport in London. As such, 22 of the lucky lotto winners won £100,900,
before taxes. One of the winners, Monica Bermudez of Maidenhead in Berkshire,
could not believe her luck when she visited Facebook on that fateful day.
'I remember slamming my laptop shut when I read Paul's message on Facebook. I
just assumed it was a joke because the most we had ever won before was £40.'
According to 27-year-old Bermudez, it wasn't the first time Cotter used Facebook
to alert the lottery syndicate about lottery wins, no matter how big or small.
As he had four shares in the lottery syndicate, 55-year-old Cotter won himself a
cool £403,600 before taxes. It was he who bought the lucky Lucky Dip lottery
ticket for last week's Saturday draw that yielded the multi-million pound
lottery jackpot, which means he'll no doubt be the toast of his colleagues at
Heathrow.
Interestingly, when quizzed by the media on the huge lottery payout, Cotter
revealed that he was not all that surprised as 15 years ago a palm reader in
California told him he'd 'win a large amount of money in December and that the
money would go into his bank account on a Tuesday' - all of which came true last
week.
Cotter also revealed that handing out the large lottery checks to the syndicate
members made him feel like Father Christmas. He also said that when he found out
that they had got all six numbers correct and thus won £2,625,215, he recognized
that it was one of the best days of his life.
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