Where are Surrey’s new multi-millionaires?
Posted May 17, 2013 9:39 pm.
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SURREY (NEWS1130) – Last month, four Lotto ticketholders shared the biggest Lotto 6/49 jackpot in Canadian history, totalling $63 million.
Two of those ticketholders, both in Surrey, still haven’t come forward. Split four ways, each winning ticket is worth $15.8 million.
So why haven’t the two Surrey ticketholders come forward yet?
Chris Fairclough with the BC Lottery Corporation has a couple of theories.
“It’s not unheard of for lottery winners to wait a couple of weeks before they come forward. I’ve seen it in my time at the BCLC. People are on vacation, so they don’t know they’ve won, which was the case with a $25 million winner last year. Many times they have the ticket in their wallet or on their fridge,” he notes.
“It could also be that they’re talking to their financial advisor.”
The largest unclaimed prize in BC was back in 2009, for $130,000.
Lottery winners have 52 weeks to come forward to claim their prize.
