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Veteran wins $4M lottery using fortune cookie numbers ‘on a whim’

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Mega Millions drawing that took place on Jan. 25. Gabriel Fierro, 60, of Cornelius, North Carolina won all of the luck when he cashed in his $3 lottery ticket for a whopping $4 million prize. "I don’t usually play my fortune cookie numbers but I tried them on a whim," Fierro told the NC Education Lottery.

Fierro said he purchased his ticket using the online play option and added an extra $1 to make it a Megaplier ticket to multiply any winnings.

The winning ticket matched all five white balls, which won Fierro $1 million, but that was multiplied by four with the Megaplier hit, according to NC Education Lottery. "I got an email in the morning and I just stared at it dumbfounded," Fierro said. "I took it and showed it to my wife and she thought it was an April Fool’s joke or maybe a scam." Once Fierro and his family let the win sink in, they began to celebrate. "We started running around the house," Fierro said, "screaming like a bunch of banshees." FILE - Mega Millions lottery tickets. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)Fierro went home with over $2.8 million after federal and state tax withholdings.

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