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Feb. 12 (UPI) -- An Australian woman who won a lottery jackpot worth more than $1 million said she carried her winning ticket around for over a month before she knew it was a big winner.

The Darwin, Northern Territory, woman told The Lott officials she bought her ticket for the Jan. 9 TattsLotto drawing at Bardens Pharmacy in Darwin, but she didn't check the ticket to see if it was a winner until over a month later.

'I went to buy a ticket for this weekend's draw and then checked this ticket in the process,' the woman said. 'I had absolutely no idea. It's crazy!'

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Lottery officials said the ticket, which earned a total jackpot of $1,086,400, was unregistered, so officials had no way to contact the winner until she came forward.

'The first thing I will do is pay off my mortgage,' the winner said. 'I am going to get myself a few diamonds as well! I am working right now, but tonight, I am definitely going to be spoiling myself to something nice for dinner to celebrate.'

Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A North Carolina man said he at first misread a winning lottery ticket and thought he had only won $1,000, but it turned out he actually won $150,000.

'My heart just dropped,' Aweis Mohamed of Greensboro, N.C., told Fox8 on Friday.

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Mohamed, who works as a manufacturing technician, bought three tickets after work at his local Penny Saver outlet, and the first two were duds.

'I scanned the one I won, and it said take it to the lottery headquarters,' Mohamed said. 'And when I took it, I thought I won $1,000 and the lady said I won $150,000 and that I had to come to Raleigh.'

After taxes, Mohamed pocketed $110,864. He plans to use the winnings to help pay down his mortgage, he said.

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'I had to see it to believe it,' Mohamed said. 'I told myself to stay positive and stay humble, and if it's your time, it's your time.'

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