Unclaimed $1 million lottery ticket to expire

Alex Delgado

RYE, N.Y.- Look at your pockets, look beneath your couch, search your vehicle, claim your billion dollar grand prize before time runs out.

"1-6-7-20-49, Powerball 23 would be the million-dollar amounts in the drawing August. 25, 2012, but who owns the winning ticket still remains a mysterious. The ticketholder has until August 25 to advance or forfeit the cash to some prize pool for future those who win.

Rob Alfalahi has set up signs on entrances of his Playland Market, a Rye deli that offered the winning ticket, to inspire clients to check on their tickets and are available forward.

"We have had lots of those who win for $500 and even perhaps a couple of 1000, however the billion dollar ticket, that's the very first time we have seen a champion like this,Inch recounts worker Alex Delgado.

Delgado confesses he considers the prize money sometimes. "If nobody comes out using the winning ticket, I believe the money may come towards the store and I'd obtain a cut," Delgado states amusingly. "I'd cash the cash immediately and repay my college financial loans," he adds.

New You are able to Condition Gaming Commission Representative Christy Calicchia states that you will find numerous reasons lotteries go unclaimed. "All of the common reasons you are able to think about, from lost tickets to tickets being cleaned in jean pockets," states Calicchia.

With this fiscal year alone, you will find nearly $28 million price of awards, varying from instant tickets and lottery draw games, to Powerball, Megamillions, and also the Sweet Million lotto, which have been left unclaimed.

"Sometimes gamers don't understand that there's several prize," Calicchia describes, "once they hear the winning ticket, such as the recent Nj those who win, was bought in another condition, they weary and end up forgetting you will find other tiered awards."

With this particular prize, after condition and federal taxes are calculated, the champion might take home an believed $662,000. If the Powerball remains unclaimed, it will likely be the sixth-biggest prize which has gone with no taker within the good reputation for New You are able to lotteries.

Amazingly, the biggest sum gone uncollected was $68 million from the Mega Millions attracting Brooklyn in 2002.

Individuals in the New You are able to Lottery are "hopeful that whomever may be the holder of the ticket can come forward and claim the prize, especially with the emphasis that we're wearing it," states Calicchia.