The huge Mega Millions lottery ticket worth more than $1.5 BILLION was purchased in October in Simpsonville, South Carolina. It will be worthless in about two months if no one comes forward to claim it.
If not claimed: the money goes back to the individual state lotteries, there will be no $60 million tax payment for the state of South Carolina, and no $50,000 bonus to the store that sold the winning ticket.
Unless the ticket was thrown out by mistake, someone has a small piece of paper sitting around with the numbers 5, 28, 62, 65, and 70, and Mega Ball number 5, worth $1.5 BILLION or a cool lump sum one time payment of about $878 million.