July 29, 2025 • 6 mins
An Australian woman has won the lottery but the unusual reason she decided to buy a ticket has left us completely stunned.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fits In with Her with Kate Richie podcast.
Hey this annoys me. Fits a woman has won four
point two million dollars in lotto. Now that's not the
part that annoys me. What on congratulations got your lucky numbers.
Here's what annoys me is, you know, on social media,
when something comes up and it says something like watch
(00:20):
this till the end and you'll receive a large sum
of money. It will come your way. If you've seen
those ones, they're just trying to obviously generate time spent
watching and it'll just say watch until the end and
money will come away, almost like there was some sort
of hidden secret that will send a message into the
universe that will allow money to flood into your bank account.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well you with a lotto You can't do with that lotto,
can you.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
No, But she decided to watch this and then went
and bought a ticket. So she's now saying, if I
hadn't watched the end of that Facebook video, then I
probably wouldn't have won the money.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
What so they said, go and buy yourself a lotto
ticket at the end of the video. Is that what
they said?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
She thought? She just put it together. She just corrected
the dots and went, well, I watched it to the end.
How is the money going to flow into my account? Well,
because I watched the end.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Of that video.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Maybe or buy a lot of tickets.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Has anyone gone to the casino after getting pooed on
by a bird and actually won money?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You know?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's whenever you get put on by a bird, the
first thing someone says is bloody, get yourself to the casino.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Tommy, you you did, but you had to wash the
sheets first, and you don't even remember her name, and
then you went to the casino.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Wants to go to the casino after pooing on someone
in so? Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Mate, if dressed up as a bench chicken.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
If you're walking under a ladder out the front of
the Star or something like that, or out in front
of the news agency, that bad. Oh yeah, that's bad luck,
isn't it. That's bad good luck?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah? Yeah, that's another one bad luck.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Can I give you one from Saturday night? I'm sitting
there on the couch right, and this is a community
service announcement here, sitting on the couch next to Lisa.
She says she's online. She goes, oh, look at this,
My friend Alice that I used to work with in
the UK has just sent me a message saying that
she wants to talk to me, which is great. It's
(02:20):
been a while and what's your phone number? Now? Do
you still have the old number? What's your phone number?
So she sent Alice her phone number right and remembers
all that, remembers all the good times with Alice in
the UK, hanging out at local bars. Once she'd sent
the phone number, she then got another message from Alice saying, Oh,
(02:42):
I'm just trying to log into my Facebook. It's been
such a while. Can you send me the pin that's
popped up? I had to I had to select friends
to send the pin to. What's the pin you've received?
And that's when Lisa went, whoa stop?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
What that Alice? You have somelute dog trying to rip
off Lisa?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What has happened? I thought, you're missing the point that no,
that's a scamming getting into the Facebook platform and selecting
But how well how are they able to know that
Lisa and Alice hadn't spoken in a long time? Yeah,
like it's been such a long time, and able to
say like Lisa thought, oh, maybe she just hasn't logged
(03:25):
into Facebook for a long time, and that's why I
haven't heard from her either, So that would make sense
if she needed to reset it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I've got this happened to me a few years ago.
I've got a phone call from a mate that I
went to high school with, who said, mate, so I'm
so sorry to do this, but is there any chance
that you can pay this scam of three hundred dollars
for me? He's got a photo of me nude? And
I said, I said to him, I said, mate, I
(03:55):
thought about it. I said, look, you know I will
help you out. But the thing is, this is not
going to be the first pay. If he's demanding three
hundred dollars from you now, he's going to come back
and then he will asks for five hundred dollars. It
will get bigger every time. If he's got a photo
of you nude, he will eventually just keep He will
say that he's going to leak it to as many
people as he can and you'll have to keep paying him.
(04:16):
So I don't think this is going to work.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So your mate was legitimate.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, so he thought he was talking to a lady
on face. Oh no, So he sent a photo to her,
but unfortunately it was a scammer. And then the scammer said,
I've got all your contacts. I'll send it to all
your contacts if you don't give me three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, sextortion it's called. And unfortunately kids are killing themselves
over it. This does happen, and you're right fits they
don't stop. The three hundred comes five hundred and goes
on from there. Melanie's in Blacktown.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Hey, molt Hi, how are you going now?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You used to work at the tab did you?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That's correct? And this is a really good story. A
lady wan affected. She won seventeen thousand dollars profector is
you only picked three numbers like to win it. So
this was in the Melbourne Cup a couple of years ago,
and I said, how did you pick those numbers? Because
like they was so random. She goes, my birds, my
pep Budge died last week, and you come to me
(05:19):
in my dream and told me to take those numbers.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, my budget to my dream and picked the Melbourne Cup.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
The numbered yepheah.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
In the dream the budgies just gone a A Sandra seven,
eight and fourteen Pettigam go for Melbourne Cup that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I love stories like that, Melanie. Actually, I've written something
down I reckon in my notes. I had a dream
about the Melbourne Cup or something and I wrote something down.
What for this year?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I found it. It's just you come to you in
your sleep.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It says, it says, don't bet you will never win.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Fits in Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast
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This is the Fits In with Her with Kate Richie podcast.
Hey this annoys me. Fits a woman has won four
point two million dollars in lotto. Now that's not the
part that annoys me. What on congratulations got your lucky numbers.
Here's what annoys me is, you know, on social media,
when something comes up and it says something like watch
(00:20):
this till the end and you'll receive a large sum
of money. It will come your way. If you've seen
those ones, they're just trying to obviously generate time spent
watching and it'll just say watch until the end and
money will come away, almost like there was some sort
of hidden secret that will send a message into the
universe that will allow money to flood into your bank account.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well you with a lotto You can't do with that lotto,
can you.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
No, But she decided to watch this and then went
and bought a ticket. So she's now saying, if I
hadn't watched the end of that Facebook video, then I
probably wouldn't have won the money.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
What so they said, go and buy yourself a lotto
ticket at the end of the video. Is that what
they said?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
She thought? She just put it together. She just corrected
the dots and went, well, I watched it to the end.
How is the money going to flow into my account? Well,
because I watched the end.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Of that video.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Maybe or buy a lot of tickets.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Has anyone gone to the casino after getting pooed on
by a bird and actually won money?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
You know?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
That's whenever you get put on by a bird, the
first thing someone says is bloody, get yourself to the casino.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Tommy, you you did, but you had to wash the
sheets first, and you don't even remember her name, and
then you went to the casino.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Wants to go to the casino after pooing on someone
in so? Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Mate, if dressed up as a bench chicken.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
If you're walking under a ladder out the front of
the Star or something like that, or out in front
of the news agency, that bad. Oh yeah, that's bad luck,
isn't it. That's bad good luck?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah? Yeah, that's another one bad luck.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Can I give you one from Saturday night? I'm sitting
there on the couch right, and this is a community
service announcement here, sitting on the couch next to Lisa.
She says she's online. She goes, oh, look at this,
My friend Alice that I used to work with in
the UK has just sent me a message saying that
she wants to talk to me, which is great. It's
(02:20):
been a while and what's your phone number? Now? Do
you still have the old number? What's your phone number?
So she sent Alice her phone number right and remembers
all that, remembers all the good times with Alice in
the UK, hanging out at local bars. Once she'd sent
the phone number, she then got another message from Alice saying, Oh,
(02:42):
I'm just trying to log into my Facebook. It's been
such a while. Can you send me the pin that's
popped up? I had to I had to select friends
to send the pin to. What's the pin you've received?
And that's when Lisa went, whoa stop?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
What that Alice? You have somelute dog trying to rip
off Lisa?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What has happened? I thought, you're missing the point that no,
that's a scamming getting into the Facebook platform and selecting
But how well how are they able to know that
Lisa and Alice hadn't spoken in a long time? Yeah,
like it's been such a long time, and able to
say like Lisa thought, oh, maybe she just hasn't logged
(03:25):
into Facebook for a long time, and that's why I
haven't heard from her either, So that would make sense
if she needed to reset it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I've got this happened to me a few years ago.
I've got a phone call from a mate that I
went to high school with, who said, mate, so I'm
so sorry to do this, but is there any chance
that you can pay this scam of three hundred dollars
for me? He's got a photo of me nude? And
I said, I said to him, I said, mate, I
(03:55):
thought about it. I said, look, you know I will
help you out. But the thing is, this is not
going to be the first pay. If he's demanding three
hundred dollars from you now, he's going to come back
and then he will asks for five hundred dollars. It
will get bigger every time. If he's got a photo
of you nude, he will eventually just keep He will
say that he's going to leak it to as many
people as he can and you'll have to keep paying him.
(04:16):
So I don't think this is going to work.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So your mate was legitimate.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, so he thought he was talking to a lady
on face. Oh no, So he sent a photo to her,
but unfortunately it was a scammer. And then the scammer said,
I've got all your contacts. I'll send it to all
your contacts if you don't give me three hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, sextortion it's called. And unfortunately kids are killing themselves
over it. This does happen, and you're right fits they
don't stop. The three hundred comes five hundred and goes
on from there. Melanie's in Blacktown.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Hey, molt Hi, how are you going now?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
You used to work at the tab did you?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That's correct? And this is a really good story. A
lady wan affected. She won seventeen thousand dollars profector is
you only picked three numbers like to win it. So
this was in the Melbourne Cup a couple of years ago,
and I said, how did you pick those numbers? Because
like they was so random. She goes, my birds, my
pep Budge died last week, and you come to me
(05:19):
in my dream and told me to take those numbers.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No, my budget to my dream and picked the Melbourne Cup.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
The numbered yepheah.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
In the dream the budgies just gone a A Sandra seven,
eight and fourteen Pettigam go for Melbourne Cup that.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I love stories like that, Melanie. Actually, I've written something
down I reckon in my notes. I had a dream
about the Melbourne Cup or something and I wrote something down.
What for this year?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
This is it.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I found it. It's just you come to you in
your sleep.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It says, it says, don't bet you will never win.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Fits in Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast
walk great shows like this. Download the Nova Player via
the App Store or Google Playing the
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