A dad-of-four has been told he will not be receiving any winnings from a scratchcard - despite claiming he scooped the £200,000 jackpot.
Eric Walker, from Sheffield, UK, says he matched three symbols on a £3 Pharaoh's Fortune card. However, lottery organisers, Camelot, claim his winning card had been doctored to make an 'F' look like an 'E'.
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The 56-year-old, who is unemployed, buys six scratchcards a day and claims the imperfect looking 'E' is the result of a misprint. He added that the money would be life-changing for him, his partner Amanda Emmadi, 37, and his four children aged between 14 months and nine years.
He said: "In my eyes I've won £200,000 and I'm being cheated out of the money.
"They're trying to tell me that an F has been changed to an E but I bought the ticket and scratched it myself. I haven't doctored it, I'm not trying to cheat.
"If it's a misprint then that's their fault and they should still pay out, it's nothing to do with me. I'm going to keep pressure on Camelot to sort this out, I'm not willing to let it go."
Mr Walker bought the scratchcard from a Premier corner shop three weeks ago.
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The game requires players to reveal coordinates that correspond with three pharaoh symbols on a grid.
Mr Walker's card shows he uncovered three pharaoh symbols on squares D1, A5 and E5, however, the E5 code appears to have been doctored. His F5 square on the grid has also been scratched off, but there isn't a pharaoh in the square.
A Camelot spokesman said: "Based on the photo we were sent we were able to re-construct the scratchcard in our system.
"We can confirm that an F has been altered to appear as an E and is therefore not a winning Scratchcard."
Maybe it's time Mr Walker respects Camelot's investigations and says, you know what, Pharaoh'nuff. But that's easier said than done when the stakes are so high.
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A man from Lincolnshire is equally unwilling to give up his fight for his winnings, and is even taking Betfred to High Court.
Andrew Green won £1.7 million on a blackjack game, only for the betting company to tell him that the win was the result of a 'software malfunction'.
Mr Green said he went 'absolutely crazy' and spent thousands after hitting the jackpot, but now Betfred are refusing to payout.
... Well, they do say the house always wins.
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