Lotto: Atwell couple win Saturday jackpot after believing Lotterywest Play Online app was faulty
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The app alerted them that they had won a prize — but they though it was faulty.
Then a surprise phone call informed them that they were more than $830k richer after scooping Saturday’s Lotto.
The couple, aged in their 50s and 60s and who live in the southern Perth suburb of Atwell, are now planning the holiday of a lifetime to Europe.
The woman, who is now planning an early retirement, saw the alert that she had won on the Lotterywest Play Online app but thought it was malfunctioning as there was no amount.
“I saw I had a win but no amount was shown,” she said.
”I thought it was broken, put it down and didn’t think anything else of it until I got a call from Lotterywest telling me I had won division one.
“Life just got a whole lot easier.”
Apart from the holiday, the couple plan to spend their $832,404 winnings by paying off their mortgage and helping their children.
