“Heartbreaking: Winner of a million euros at EuroMillions unable to claim prize”

You may not know it, but when you win Euromillions, you cannot claim your prize whenever you want. After a certain deadline, you may be a winner, but you can’t touch the money anymore. That’s why you should always check your ticket, because you may have a winning ticket somewhere in your house that is worth gold.

A winner has lost his Euromillions prize

We know the Euromillions, this European jackpot which offers astronomical sums. But there is also the game My Millions which offers, every Tuesday and Friday, to win one million euros. A very nice sum, isn’t it.

When a lucky winner has managed to find the right combination, he has 60 days to claim his prize from the FDJ. Believe it or not, but one of the last winners didn’t. He lives in Hauts-de-France. For 60 days, the FDJ launches a search notice. But this notice did not allow him to be found.

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It is not a unique fact. In France, the FDJ explains that there are on average between two and three players who forget to claim the winnings.

Why didn’t he collect his Euromillions prize?

Even today, the Française des Jeux does not know the identity of the winner. So he couldn’t speak. But as this is not the first time this has happened, we can try to find explanations.

The most logical is: he did not know that he had won the Euromillions. This happens especially when players play regularly. Sometimes he misses a draw and is so used to losing that he doesn’t check.

Or, it’s an inactive player who tried to take a ticket once and didn’t remember the draw. It also happens that the winners of the Euromillions panic in the face of such a sum.

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From then on, the fear of seeing their life change overnight paralyzes them. And finally, they prefer not to claim their Euromillions winnings.

The winner must show up

It should also be remembered that it is not up to the FDJ to contact the winner. Quite simply because it does not have the contact details of all the people who buy a ticket. It is up to the winner of the Euromillions to announce that he is the proud owner of the winning ticket.

However, in the case of the My Million game, the winner has only 60 days to let it be known that he wants to collect his winnings. In the present case, the winner of Hauts-de-France can no longer claim his prize since April 28, 11:59 p.m.

The money that should have gone to the winner is not lost. The FDJ generally uses it for promotional operations the days or weeks that follow.

This million can therefore please another person. And we hope that, this time, she will quickly think about claiming her prize. Because it’s not every day that you win the Euromillions. We know that, on our side, we would immediately call the FDJ.