By Cam Lucadou-Wells
The mystery winner of a division-one winning TattsLotto ticket at Fountain Gate Lotto Dreams has claimed their $271,775 prize.
The unregistered prize had been unclaimed for several days, after the draw on 22 April.
The winner was said to have nearly fell over when they discovered their windfall from their 36-game QuickPick ticket.
It was the sixth division-one winner in eight years from the Fountain Gate outlet.
The store’s owner Frida Abboud said she’d “built quite the reputation for selling division-one winning tickets”.
“I can’t walk around the shopping centre without people coming up to me and asking for my tips on lucky numbers.”
Meanwhile an unregistered ticket-holder who bought a ticket from Berwick Lucky Lotto for the Saturday 28 January draw still hasn’t claimed their first-division prize.
If unclaimed within a six month “grace period”, the $509,615 prize will be banked by the Victorian State Revenue Office.
