New York – “You’ve got to be in it to win it” That’s New York State’s lottery slogan. But some people aren’t really in it when they buy a ticket.
They buy it on a whim when the prize looks inviting, and then they never check back to see if they’ve won.
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The current statistics of New York lottery winners who have failed to claim their prizes to date in 2007 is in the millions. Winners missed a total 4.84 million in prizes that expired between April 1 and May 31st of 2007, and that statistic is just for prizes that were more than $10,000 each.
In Westchester alone there have been 11 unclaimed prizes of more than $10,000 from various lotto games, Rockland has two unclaimed prizes so far this year, and the largest unclaimed prize about to expire in the amount of $250,000 was sold in Mount Kisco, and if the winner knows about it, how long do you think it would take for them to get to the prize claims office. [webwire]
I stopped playing the lottery long ago. I ALWAYS picked the right numbers — but THEY always picked all the wrong ones.