Lottery requires Brits who’ve gained £1m EuroMillions prize to return ahead

National Lottery bosses are on the hunt for two clueless Brits who are unaware they’ve each scooped a £1m EuroMillions prize.

The lucky pair haven’t yet come forward to claim their whopping £1,000,000 windfalls from last Friday’s EuroMillions UK Millionaire Maker draw, which turned 10 punters into millionaires in a flash. What we know is that one of the elusive winners nabbed their ticket online, while the other landed their fortune at a shop. The digital winner has been told to get on their emails and check their National Lottery account pronto.

They need to give the National Lottery Line a bell to bag their bounty. Meanwhile, the high street winner should be double-checking their paper slip in-store or scanning their EuroMillions ticket with the National Lottery app before ringing up to claim their cash.

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Andy Carter, the top dog for winners’ advice at The National Lottery, said: “Imagine being a millionaire and not even knowing it. It’s only been just under a week since the special draw, but we’re urging all EuroMillions players to log into their National Lottery account and check their paper tickets to see if they are one of our missing two winners. Why wait to be a millionaire when I could be on my way to meet you tomorrow with your £1,000,000 prize!”

The EuroMillions UK Millionaire Maker draw guarantees a millionaire in every draw but on Friday night it created 10 in one night. For each line played, UK players are given a EuroMillions UK Millionaire Maker code printed on their ticket, reports the Mirror.

As with all major prizes (£50,000 and above) won in retail, if no valid claim has been received around two weeks after the draw, the area where the ticket was bought is released. Once a ticket-holder has informed The National Lottery and the claim has been validated and paid, the ticket-holder can choose whether or not to go public about their win.

Previously, The Mirror reported how heartless fraudsters targeted a single mum by pretending to be millionaire lottery winners offering a helping hand. Dympna McKenna, 47, thought she was communicating with Richard and Debbie Nuttall – who bagged £61million on the EuroMillions in January – over Facebook.

She “bared her soul” and revealed her desperate situation, including her struggle to provide for her daughter Dakota, 10, and the £7,000 debt she is in.

She was moved to tears when the scammers offered her cash but later realised it was a lie and decided to play along. Now she wants to warn others who might not be aware it’s a scam.

Dympna, who is a full-time carer for her autistic daughter, said: “I bared my soul – that’s why I’m mad. They are sat behind a computer. How can a person go from being an innocent baby to a monster? It’s disgusting. “

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