Anonymous driver lands bumper $4m windfall while getting gas – they bought just two items

A MYSTERY driver has won a whopping $4 million Lottery prize while refueling his car.

The shocked man initially assumed the Lottery scanner was broken.

He became a multi-millionaire after purchasing the winning ticket at the Fastlane convenience store at 3540 State Street in Saginaw County, Michigan.

The motorist won the mammoth prize-money after scratching off his $4,000,000 Ultimate instant game ticket, according to Michigan Lottery.

And the lucky player couldn't believe he’d won a staggering $4 million.

I scanned the ticket again, and when that message came up a second time, I thought the scanner was broken.

The 52-year-old player has chosen to remain anonymous, but has revealed more about his stunning win.

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“I stopped to get gas and bought two $4,000,000 Ultimate tickets while I was in the store,” he explained on July 8.

He scratched the barcodes, scanned his first ticket, and a message popped up to tell him to file a claim.

“I scanned the ticket again, and when that message came up a second time, I thought the scanner was broken,” he recalled.

“I scanned the second ticket and that scanned correctly - so I wasn’t sure what was going on.”

Still confused, he went out of the store, to pump gas into his car.

“I scratched the ticket while I was waiting,” he said.

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“It’s hard to describe the feeling when I saw the winning amount.

“I got in the car and yelled, ‘we just won $4 million!’”

He recently visited Lottery headquarters to claim the big prize in-person.

The winner told officials he plans to buy land and invest some money.

He chose to receive his prize as a one-time lump sum payment of about $2.7 million.

This month has seen other big wins claimed in the county.

A Lapeer County woman, 54, won $300,000 playing the Michigan Lottery’s fire and ice cashword instant game.

"I just kept thinking, ‘this can’t be real.’ I showed my mom, and she couldn’t believe it either,” the woman said.

And an Oak Park man who remembered to buy his Fantasy 5 tickets at the last minute ended up winning a $170,129 jackpot from the Michigan Lottery.

Russell Morgenstern, 67, matched the Fantasy 5 numbers in the June 3 drawing to win the big prize: 12-20-26-31-34.

"Winning this prize is a windfall and a huge blessing," he said last Thursday.

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