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A lottery player is believed to have won more than £15million overnight, but possibly has no idea they are sitting on a fortune and need to come forward to claim the prize

After buying $5 scratch-card one man from Alabama became a millionaire overnight thanks to the Florida lottery's ''$150,000 a year for life'' game. Now the 49 year old is letting the news sink in.

The single mother is using her harrowing experience to warn others to be be aware of the scam after she handed over thousands of pounds to a man who claimed he had won the lottery

The second-largest ever Powerball jackpot was won with a ticket bought in the quaint mountain community of Frazier Park in California where residents are eager to find out if the new billionaire is one of their own

Lotteries may advertise the jaw-dropping prize of $1.73billion, but the lucky winner will most likely end up getting less than half as much, or only 44% of it due to a technicality

A $1.7billion (£1.4bn) Powerball jackpot was won by a California player, ending a 35-draw streak, with the winning ticket sold at Midway Market & Liquor in Frazier Park setting the record as the second-largest lottery prize in history

Andrea and Kevin Griffin have faced backlash for complaining that the home they won through a lottery is missing luxury items such as a wine fridge - but the owner claims the items were for staging

Jeffery Dampier won the astonishing amount in the Illinois state lottery in 1996. But after that, it soon went downhill for the 'lucky' winner who divorced his wife after giving her half of his winnings

The Powerball jackpot has surged to a life changing $1.73 (£1.41) billion after 35 consecutive drawings without a winner with players in Monday night's drawing left empty handed

The Powerball $1.55 billion drawing Monday is the 34th consecutive week that it has gone unclaimed and is the fourth largest jackpot ever in Powerball history

From colossal superyachts to investments in the rarest of treasures, here are a few things that would be within reach for the winner of the $1.55billion (£1.26billion) Powerball jackpot

Everyone has their own tactics when it comes to picking lottery numbers, but some picks will see you more likely to share the jackpot than others so it's worth considering just how popular your picks will be

There are many pitfalls which can affect Powerball winners eager to spend their winnings and experts have given their warnings about excessive spending, investing poorly and family members demanding money

The National Lottery Lotto draw has been made tonight - check your tickets to see if you are lucky and are the UK's newest millionaire or if tonight isn't your day

After last being won on July 19 with a ticket bought at a small shop near Los Angeles' Skidrow, the Powerball jackpot has grown to the staggering figure up for grabs now

A woman in Cheboygan, Michigan used $80 she had already won to buy herself a heap of tickets to win an incredible life-changing Fantasy 5 jackpot prize of $170,000

Bernard Botting became the oldest ever winner of one of the Postcode Lottery’s big prizes at the age of 98. Four of his neighbours in Burnham on Sea, Essex won too

Lucky winners of tonight's Powerball lottery draw will scoop the world's ninth-largest lottery prize - but there's a chance it might not be claimed

Christine Oberheitmann and her husband bagged a million dollars after stopping off for a chance lunch in Virginia and buying a Powerball ticket on a long drive home

Powerball's terrible odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to generate big jackpots, with prizes becoming ever larger as they repeatedly roll over when no one wins

The jackpot for tonight's drawing on Saturday night remains the world´s ninth-largest lottery prize of all time

Gregory Rakowicz, who was part of a five-person lottery club in Michigan, revealed the family members took nearly a year to come forward to claim the Powerball lottery jackpot

A man in Arkansas chose special numbers related to his family for a massive multi-million dollar win. The unnamed individual quit his job as soon as he found out he won

A lucky American could scoop a huge prize this Wednesday as the Powerball jackpot hit an estimated $835million. Winners will be able to choose between annual payments or a lump sum

A suburban liquor store in Chicago has officially made two people's dreams come true, as this week, one lucky customer bought a $30 Titanium Black 7 Instant Ticket and ended up with $3 million (£2.6 million) and became the second customer to hit the jackpot in three years