30 November 2023 , 10:28
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A McDonald's customer thought she won a huge £39,000 Monopoly jackpot but soon realised the heartbreaking truth.
Jennifer Comtois, 33, thought she had scooped a huge $50,000 (£39,000) jackpot on the favourite fast-food game before she later discovered that she only collected $20 (£15).
After noticing a notification on her McDonald's app that told her she had won her prize she immediately called her husband to tell of the cash prize she had bagged from her partner's stickers. Despite only winning a small prize, Jennifer, from Montreal, Canada, was still 'thrilled' to win after never winning anything before in her life.
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The customer thought she had won
She was "thrilled" to win at firstShe said: "I was excited! I thought I had won one of the $50,000 prizes haha, but then later I soon found out it was only $20 after checking my app.
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"Honestly though, I was still excited and beyond thrilled as I had never won before. I called my husband right away to tell him I had won some money. It was his Monopoly stickers that he never bothered with, so I took them and put them onto the app - I was excited to rub it in his face that I had won from it. It was comedic because I received a cheque in the mail for just $20, so when I opened it, I just burst out laughing!"
She was "thrilled" to win at first
It sadly wasn't the jackpotIt comes after a boss claims an employee sneakily pocketed a $500,000 (£395,000) lotto prize despite vowing to split the cash. Jose Quinteros is suing Jorge Rivera Palma and his employee's nephew Marco Corado Erazo for half the winnings after a dispute about who had the rights to the winnings amid a fight over four purchased tickets.
The winning "AR 200X" scratch-off ticket was purchased on February 2, 2023, in Rogers, Arkansas, at the Quick Mart. Both Quinteros and Palma agreed Palma physically purchased the winning ticket - however, Palma claims that Quinteros gave him money to buy two tickets, one of them the contested winning ticket, while Quinteros bought his own two tickets.
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He maintains that the two scratched off all four tickets together, but Palma's winning ticket was only his. However, Quinteros' claims he and Palma bought a total of four tickets together using money from winning tickets the pair had bought together earlier - with one winning the top $500,000.
Quinteros claims that Palma asked his boss to bring the ticket to his house to show it to his nephew, Erazo. After driving to Palma's house he says he handed over the ticket, before waiting in his car for Palma to return it. However, he was forced to call his worker when the man did not do so.
Quinteros goes on to claim Palma then told him he "was going to hold onto the ticket," so the pair could cash the check in the morning in Little Rock. However, when Quinteros went to Palma's house the following morning, he was not home.
After calling Palma, Quinteros claims he was told "not to worry about the money," and that "he is going to get his share once [Palma] received the proceeds." However, the money did not materialise.