


It was a Massachusetts woman’s lucky day — sort of.
Danielle Alexandrov said that she mysteriously got a FedEx package with $20,000 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets inside.
“I start going through the boxes, everything is normal until I get a box that is very heavy,” Alexandrov told local station WCVB.
“I open it up and it’s a box of scratch tickets. And I’m thinking, ‘Is this a joke?’ until I look at the receipt and its value is $20,000 worth of scratch tickets,” she added.
While it might seem as though she struck potential gold, the tickets aren’t of value until an official seller validates them.
The tickets were really meant to be sent to a store called Kenyon’s Market in Falmouth.
The Post reached out to Kenyon’s Market and the Massachusetts Lottery for comment.
“These tickets, until they’re activated by a retail agent, there’s really no value to them,” Christian Teja, with the Massachusetts Lottery, told WCVB.
“If someone tried to take one of these tickets if it was a winning ticket, brought it to a retail location, there would be a message that would flag it and they’d be unable to cash the ticket.”
Alexandrov returned the tickets to the market after seeing their address on the receipt.
“The right thing to do is to go return it,” she said.
In another instance, the lottery tickets weren’t meant for the woman, but a house cleaner in Massachusetts found a million-dollar lottery ticket while cleaning her clients’ home and he reaped the rewards.
Khalil Soussa of Medford had purchased the Money Maker scratch-off at a local convenience store before forgetting to check to see if he won.
Soussa told lottery officials in October that his cleaner found the ticket in a vase — and suddenly he was $1 million richer.