A woman who won £100,000 on the lottery had to be convinced she'd actually managed to win the money after believing someone was trying to scam her.
She and nine others won the money on the People's Postcode Lottery, but she ended up hanging up on the call to inform her of her winnings as she told them she was 'not interested'.
The Sun reports that Anne from Heald Green, Greater Manchester, mistakenly thought she was being scammed when the phone call came through.
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The lottery then tried to send her an email, but she thought that was also part of the scam, and in most cases she'd have been completely right to be suspicious.
She said: "I told my daughters and they said don't click on anything and don't give any bank details."
Normally that would be exactly the right advice to follow, except for the one-in-a-million moment when you've actually won the lottery.
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It wasn't until some representatives from the People's Postcode Lottery showed up on her street that Anne finally learned this wasn't all an attempt to part her from her money, quite the reverse in fact.
She told The Sun: "There was a lovely party atmosphere when they were here in the street.
"I peeped round the hedge and saw the cheques, I was trying to see the amount as they opened them."
Anne ended up with a jackpot of £100,000, and nine other people on her street won as well.
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As for what she's going to do with the money, £10,000 of it is going to the village hall and other charities like a Multiple Sclerosis therapy centre which helps people like her husband.
Other residents on the street who got some money were Anne's neighbours Roy and Julie, with their £100,000 coming just as their boiler gave up the ghost.
Julie thought she might have won £1,000 when she got the phone call and was stunned to see a couple more zeroes than she'd been expecting.
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While much needed, the £100,000 jackpots won on the street don't quite come close to the life changing, and in many cases life ruining, amounts that some people claim.
Should you ever be the lucky soul who wins the lottery and are absolutely sure it's not a scam then it's worth taking the financial advice on offer.
A National Lottery advisor said that the biggest mistake many people make with their winnings is giving too much of it away before figuring out what they want to do with it.
Anne's plan to give a tenth of her winnings away sounds pretty sensible and well thought out, but many lottery winners fritter away large amounts of cash and before they know it a fortune it should take several lifetimes to spend is gone in a few years.
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