A US woman found an email in her spam saying she’d won R46 million. She really had.

Laura Spears won $3 million in the Michigan Lottery, but only realized from an email in January that had been marked as junk in her inbox.

Peter Dazeley via Getty ImagesIt turned out she won $3 million – the equivalent of R46 million – in the lottery, but didn't realise until checking her spam folder.For more stories,A US woman is celebrating a $3 million lottery win – the equivalent of R46 million – which she only discovered after an email in her spam folder alerted her to the life-changing win.

It is a striking change from the messages spam filters exist to stop, which promise easy money but are in fact meant to defraud their recipients.

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