After his weekly meal at a Chinese restaurant, a North Carolina man used the numbers in his fortune cookie to play the lottery. And now he is $4 million richer.
After his weekly meal at a Chinese restaurant, a North Carolina man used the numbers in his fortune cookie to play the lottery.And now he is $4 million richer.She found a $3 million lottery prize in her spam folder"I don't usually play my fortune cookie numbers but I tried them on a whim," said Gabriel Fierro, 60, of Cornelius, a disabled combat veteran who served 32 years in the Army, in a release from the North Carolina Education Lottery.
Read MoreHis $4 million prize became the largest win in the history of Online Play in North Carolina, the lottery said."I got an email in the morning and I just stared at it dumbfounded," Fierro said."I took it and showed it to my wife and she thought it was an April Fool's joke or maybe a scam."Fierro received $2,840,401 after federal and state taxes. This isn't the first time the cookies have turned into fortunes for lottery players.
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