It was a quiet evening, and Manoj Chhetry was sitting at home, a little bored, as he later recalled to Virginia Lottery officials. So, the Woodbridge man went online to play some Virginia Lottery games,

Manoj Chhetry, from Woodbridge, won a jackpot prize worth $4,303,499 in the Dec. 22 drawing for the Merry Money Mania game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 22 news release. Chhetry told lottery officials he thought it was a scam at first and had to call his wife to help him verify that he really had won. “I didn’t know what happened!” he said.

A Virginia man won a life-changing jackpot prize while playing online lottery games after work, lottery officials said. Keith Girard, who works in finance, had just gotten home when he won about $1.5 million playing the Marvelous Money: Paradise Payout game, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 17 news release.