That’s the hallmark of a lottery or prize scam—designed to separate you from your money and identity.These schemes often arrive by email, text, phone, or mail and lean on pressure tactics to force quick decisions.

Leigh Solis, 45, bought a Feeling Lucky? scratch-off ticket at a store in Ames where she stopped to get a drink, according to a Sept. 22 news release from the Iowa Lottery. Little did she know, she would win the $10 game’s sixth and final top prize.

An Illinois resident just won a jackpot worth $14.6 million — and they have big plans for their winnings. The winner, who chose to remain anonymous, purchased the winning ticket for the Aug. 25 drawing at the Crown Mart on East Broadway in East Saint Louis, according to a news release from Illinois Lottery officials.

I’m going to just do me for a year,” the winner said after claiming the largest prize in Missouri Lottery history.

A Bronx man has claimed a second-tier Cash4Life prize, winning $1,000 a week for life after matching all six numbers in the July 9 drawing, the New York Lottery announced. The prize guarantees a minimum payout of $1 million.