Mom Wins $5 Million After Buying Wrong Lottery Ticket

A New Jersey mom won $5 million dollars with a lottery ticket she didn’t intend to buy.

At a Manhattan convenience store, 46-year-old Oksana Zaharov asked the clerk for a $1 scratch-off ticket.

Instead she was given a $10 Set for Life ticket.

Zaharov saying in a statement, “When the clerk handed me the wrong ticket I felt bad so I decided to just go ahead and buy it.” She adds: “I actually used the ticket as a bookmark for a couple weeks before I decided to scratch it.” Well the mistake paid off big.

Zaharov will receive 19 annual payments of $260,000 and an additional payment of $60,000.

Then she’ll be set for life, receiving over $172,000 annually in net pay.

So what does someone do with all that money?

Zaharov says she’ll be paying for her children’s college tuition and of course the obligatory family vacay to the Bahamas.