This will NOT happen to you.  Last week, Richard Brown of Taunton, Massachusetts (seen here) went to a Valero gas station and asked the clerk for a $5 scratch-off lottery ticket.

He asked for a game called Blue Ice 7s, but the clerk was distracted and stocking cigarettes, and accidentally gave Richard a $5 ticket for a game called Sizzlin' 7s.

And when Richard scratched off THAT ticket, he won $1 MILLION.  The odds of winning that grand prize were about one in 4.2 million.

He took the lump sump, which is about $650,000 before taxes.  And the Valero will get $10,000 in commission. 

(Taunton Daily Gazette)