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Deborah Burgess, 56, discovered, by chance, that she had won almost £1million in the lottery. Hospitalized just after playing, she did not think to check her emails where a message indeed informed her of the fantastic news.

Sorting through your emails generally doesn't bring any particular joy. But it was while carrying out this task, which has become commonplace in our daily lives, that Deborah Burgess had the “shock of (her) life”. As reported by the

Mirror

, this 56-year-old British woman discovered, completely by chance, that she was the winner of a check for 1 million pounds sterling, after having validated her lottery ticket... in August last. 

As she usually does, at regular intervals, Deborah Burgess tried her luck at the lottery last summer, but then had to be hospitalized due to chronic anemia (a lack of red blood cells in the blood). ). Preferring to focus on her health, the fifty-year-old, who then took a few days of vacation to recover, did not check her cell phone and therefore missed the incredible news. 

“I had the shock of my life” 

Some time later, Deborah Burgess finally decided to look into her mailbox. “There were so many after not going online for a while...I noticed I had one from the National Lottery with a reminder to check my account because I was a winner,” says the person concerned. Initially suspecting an online scam, she finally chose to check her account and noticed that she had indeed been a millionaire for several months without knowing it.

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After a phone call to the National Lottery, this time there was complete certainty for Deborah Burgess who had played the numbers 2, 7, 17, 28, 31, 37 and 8 as a bonus number. “I have the shock of my life,” she confides. As a celebration, the fifty-year-old did not hesitate to "spurt the champagne like an F1 driver" and treated herself to "a beautiful second-hand Hyundai" to replace her Peugeot 2008, sold for a symbolic pound, to her best friend.