One lucky winner could be £1.9 million richer as a huge lottery jackpot remains unclaimed while the National Lottery has urged ticket holders to check their accounts.
Two people won the massive £3.8 million jackpot last Saturday, but one person still has not claimed their £1.9 million share of the prize.
The National Lottery are urgently on the hunt for the would-be millionaire who is currently sat on life-changing sums of money.
The winning numbers for the Lotto draw were 06, 11, 14, 19, 41, 43, and the bonus number was 53.
National Lottery organiser Allwyn said: ‘This is also an opportunity for us to renew our call for the other £1.9m winning ticketholder from the draw to check their tickets and join in the fun!
‘Both winners bought their winning tickets online so, if you played Lotto for the draw on 1 March and you played online, we’re urging you to check your emails and log into your National Lottery account.’
Last month, 13 ticket-holders became Lotto millionaires, with one winner claiming a £7.4m jackpot on 15 February, the competition said.
Three ticket-holders also shared the £5.3m Lotto jackpot on 26 February, receiving a major £1.7m prize each.
Two people won the massive £3.8 million jackpot last Saturday, but one person still has not claimed their £1.9 million share of the prize
The winning numbers for the Lotto draw were 06, 11, 14, 19, 41, 43, and the bonus number was 53
They have 180 days from the day of the draw to claim their prize.
It’s not the first instance of unclaimed millions that the winners probably have no idea about.
There are currently eight prizes waiting to be claimed with a total value of £7.2 million.
One jackpot of £10,000 per month for 30 years as part of the Set For Life prize – worth £3.6 million – has still been unclaimed by a player in Sevenoaks, Kent, has until 22 April.
Lottery workers even headed to Sevenoaks station on Monday morning in hunt for the lucky player.
The biggest unclaimed prize was from the EuroMillions draw on 8 June 2012.
A ticket worth an incredible £63,837,543.60 had been bought by a player in the area of Stevenage and Hitchin, but was never claimed.
People with paper tickets are less likely to claim their wins than online players, according to Patrick Lisoire, consumer communications manager at Allwyn.
He said: ‘It’s retail tickets that may go unclaimed because you buy a paper ticket, if you misplace it, if you don’t get around to checking it in time, although it is nearly 6 months, those tickets could expire.’
