{"id":84749,"date":"2026-09-01T06:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/84749\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T06:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:18:22","slug":"geebung-retiree-wins-4m-oz-lotto-with-phone-switched-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/84749\/","title":{"rendered":"Geebung retiree wins $4m Oz Lotto with phone switched off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A retiree has been left in tears after discovering his turned-off phone left him unaware he had become an instant multi-millionaire.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly dad from Geebung in Brisbane\u2019s north held the only division one winning entry nationally in last week\u2019s Oz Lotto draw, taking home a massive $4m. <\/p>\n<p>Officials from The Lott tried to contact the newly minted multi-millionaire every day following his win, before he finally called them back on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you! Sorry, I\u2019m crying!\u201d the retiree told The Lott. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy son came around on the weekend and I was sort of at a loss while checking my ticket so he did it for me. He goes to me, \u2018Dad, you\u2019ve won $4m! You need to call into The Lott\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The winner said he was the type to always have his phone turned off, and wasn\u2019t surprised he didn\u2019t receive the phone calls last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gives me the chance to travel and see more things,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy late wife\u2019s family is from up North, so I\u2019ll go see them as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His winning six game pick was purchased from The Lott\u2019s website. <\/p>\n<p>The winning numbers in the draw were 4, 27, 43, 2, 21, 47 and 33, with supplementary numbers 17, 12 and 19. <\/p>\n<p>The windfall pushed the division one winning tally to 247 this year, including 55 wins by Golden Casket customers. <\/p>\n<p>There are more chances to win big with a $4m lottery on Tuesday, while Thursday\u2019s Powerball has $20m up for grabs. <\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/brisbane\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Brisbane\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A retiree has been left in tears after discovering his turned-off phone left him unaware he had become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[40816,49819,138761,138781,138774,38428,41415,37886,138777,138771,46283,44756,45441,138765,41421,47160,138767,138756,138759,72654,61779,138766,138782,138764,138780,22,21,99,138763,45615,37429,138755,138773,48034,85650,73349,138775,73918,138772,52,138770,37392,138779,138757,33821,138769,138776,138783,50771,138768,379,2673,39063,39809,138762,138784,35279,48035,93835,93857,138785,14075,138758,138760,101365,138778,40769,40084,79824,78213,93854,39096,7444,36985],"class_list":["post-84749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-s-family","tag-s-north","tag-s-oz-lotto-draw","tag-s-powerball","tag-s-shock","tag-s-website","tag-41415","tag-37886","tag-4m","tag-12-and-19","tag-46283","tag-20m","tag-45441","tag-138765","tag-41421","tag-47160","tag-47-and-33","tag-55-wins","tag-a-4m-lottery","tag-a-habit","tag-a-loss","tag-a-massive-4m","tag-a-multi-millionaire","tag-a-retiree","tag-an-instant-multi-millionaire","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-brisbane","tag-brisbane-retiree","tag-entry","tag-every-day","tag-geebung","tag-golden-casket-customers","tag-grabs","tag-his-mobile-phone","tag-his-phone","tag-his-turned-off-phone","tag-his-win","tag-his-winning-six-game-pick","tag-home","tag-huge-oz-lotto","tag-last-week","tag-life-changing-news","tag-lottery-officials","tag-man","tag-more-chances","tag-more-things","tag-my-late-wife","tag-my-son","tag-my-ticket","tag-newswire-news","tag-north","tag-officials","tag-phone","tag-supplementary-numbers","tag-tally","tag-tears","tag-the-chance","tag-the-division-one","tag-the-draw","tag-the-elderly-dad","tag-the-lott","tag-the-newly-minted-multi-millionaire","tag-the-only-division-one","tag-the-phone-calls","tag-the-retiree","tag-the-type","tag-the-weekend","tag-the-windfall","tag-the-winner","tag-the-winning-numbers","tag-this-year","tag-thursday","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}