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"No one has won today, so it could be you my friend!" Maldonado recalled the voice saying.
He said he turned around and discovered the origin of the voice: the gas station clark.
Maldonado heeded the clerk's advice and bought two Hot Riches scratch-off tickets. The first was a $5 winner and the second was a $50,000 grand prize winner.
"I freaked out when I saw that it was a winner, man," the winner said. "Even the retailer was extremely excited for me."
Maldonado said he had recently dreamed of winning a scratch-off lottery jackpot.
"It's crazy to think something can happen like that," he said.