Thousands of Norwegians were ecstatic to receive notifications from the country’s state-owned lottery company telling them they had just become millionaires – only for them to later discover it was a mistake.
The country’s government-owned Norsk Tipping said a “manual error” resulted in customers being wrongly informed on Friday that that they had won “excessively high prizes”.
According to local news outlets, the company believes “several thousand” people who won prizes in the Eurojackpot had been notified of incorrect amounts.
It declined to confirm the exact number of people impacted by the error.