1.5 Billion Won to the Treasury... Lotto 1st Prize Winner Ultimately Does Not Claim Prize

Sold by automatic purchase method in Jung-gu, Incheon
Prize money must be claimed within 1 year from the payment start date

The first-place winner of the Lotto lottery prize worth a staggering 1.5 billion won has still not appeared. On the 19th, Donghaeng Lottery, the lottery trustee, announced that the first-place winner of the 1050th Lotto lottery drawn on January 14 last year did not claim the prize money of 1,535,080,000 won, and the entire amount was eventually reverted to the lottery fund.

An elderly person visiting a Lotto sales store is carefully coloring the number blanks with earnestness.
[Photo by Mun Ho-nam munonam@]

The lottery ticket, sold automatically at Life Mart on 53beon-gil, Yeonanbudu-ro, Jung-gu, Incheon, had an expiration date for claiming the prize until the 15th of this month. There were a total of 17 first-place winners at that time. Donghaeng Lottery indicated the location where the unclaimed first-place ticket was sold and sought to find the owner, but the winner never appeared. If Lotto lottery winnings are not claimed within one year from the start date of payment, the entire amount reverts to the lottery and lottery fund.

According to the "High-Value (1st and 2nd place) Unclaimed Prize Status Within 2 Months of Expiration" released by Donghaeng Lottery on the 16th, one winner of the 1051st Lotto drawn on January 21 last year has also not yet claimed the prize. The unclaimed ticket, reportedly sold in Ulsan, has a payment deadline of the 24th, and the prize money is 71,552,507 won. The winning numbers are ‘21, 26, 30, 32, 33, 35, +44’.

One second-place winner of the 1052nd Lotto drawn on January 28 last year has also not yet claimed the prize. The unclaimed ticket was sold in Seoul, and the payment deadline is the 29th. The prize money is 38,750,788 won, and the winning numbers are '5, 17, 26, 27, 35, 38, +1'. In addition, six second-place winners with payment expiration dates from February 5 to March 5 have also not yet claimed their prize money.

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