It was a Massachusetts woman’s lucky day — sort of.
Danielle Alexandrov said that she mysteriously got a FedEx package with $20,000 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets inside.
“I start going through the boxes, everything is normal until I get a box that is very heavy,” Alexandrov told local station WCVB.
“I open it up, and it’s a box of scratch tickets. And I’m thinking, ‘Is this a joke?’ until I look at the receipt and its value is $20,000 worth of scratch tickets,” she added.
While it might seem as though she struck potential gold, the tickets aren’t of value until an official seller validates them.
The tickets were really meant to be sent to a store called Kenyon’s Market in Cape Cod’s town of Falmouth.
The Post reached out to Kenyon’s Market and the Massachusetts Lottery for comment.
“These tickets, until they’re activated by a retail agent, there’s really no value to them,” Christian Teja, with the Massachusetts State Lottery, told WCVB.
“If someone tried to take one of these tickets if it was a winning ticket, brought it to a retail location, there would be a message that would flag it, and they’d be unable to cash the ticket,” Teja said.
Alexandrov returned the tickets to the market after seeing their address on the receipt.
“The right thing to do is to go return it,” she said.
In another instance of a waylaid lottery ticket, a house cleaner in Massachusetts found a million-dollar lottery scratch-off while cleaning her client’s home and her boss reaped the rewards.
Khalil Soussa of Medford had purchased the Money Maker scratch-off at a local convenience store and forgot to check to see if he won.
Soussa told lottery officials in October that his cleaner found the ticket in a vase — and suddenly he was $1 million richer.
