Man Spends All His Savings Believing He Won The Lottery, Finds Out He Missed One Number

Let’s face it: money is really important whether we’d like to admit it or not. We work hard so we could save and have a better future. But sometimes we just want to feel how it feels like to spend and buy things that we want without having to worry about our bank account.

Well, one man did just that! A man in southern China thought that he had won the lottery prize of 5 million yuan (US$788,000) and celebrated his big win by spending his entire life savings. He had no worries spending all the cash since he believed that he would be receiving more when he finally claims his winnings.

What started as someone’s extremely lucky day, ended up with the person almost losing his life.

A Chinese man, who is a frequent lottery player, spent a lot of time researching how to win the lottery in the hopes of hitting the jackpot. He “calculated” a winning lottery number, bought a ticket, then placed it in a drawer.

When he checked the winning numbers a week later, he made a terrible mistake of not taking note and relied on his memory instead. Unfortunately, the man misremembered his own numbers by one digit and thought he had won the jackpot of 5 million yuan.

To celebrate his win, the man withdrew his entire savings amounting to 5,000 yuan ($720) to treat his family and friends. When the money was not enough, he decided to overdraft his credit card with 3,000 yuan ($430), thinking that it will easily be paid off anyway since he won a huge amount.

By morning, he checked his ticket and compared it with the winning combination, that’s when he realized that one digit was different!

The embarrassment and disappointment were too much for him to handle that he called his girlfriend and told her he was going to commit suicide. The girlfriend immediately alerted the police, who rushed to his home and persuaded him not to harm himself.