The fortune gods favored this man!
A North Carolina man, on a whim, used the numbers he found printed in a fortune cookie. Thanks to those numbers he now has $4 million.
The 60-year-old, Gabriel Fierro, obtained the lucky cookie after his weekly meal at a Chinese restaurant. "I don't usually play my fortune cookie numbers but I tried them on a whim," he said.
Fierro, who is a disabled combat veteran, used the numbers to buy a ticket online. His $4 million prize was the largest win in the history of Online Play in North Carolina. When he got the email that notified him of his luck, Fierro showed it to his wife, who thought that it was merely a scam or an April Fool’s joke. According to ABC, Fierro received $2,840,401 after federal and state taxes.
Maybe your luck will increase if you use numbers from a fortune cookie on your next attempt to win the lottery!
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