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A young office worker in Ho Chi Minh City has won a Jackpot worth nearly 80 billion dong, taking home about 71 billion after tax. On April 20, Vietlott awarded the Jackpot worth more than 79.26 billion dong to the winner, who identifies as a Gen Z living and working in Ho Chi Minh City. The winner said he purchased the winning ticket through Vietlott’s mobile distribution channel in cooperation with Viettel. He selected the numbers based on his birthday and two numbers that frequently appear in prize draws according to app statistics. When he received the notification of the Jackpot on his phone, the Gen Z winner initially did not believe it and asked his mother to verify the news in the press. After reading that a ticket had won nearly 80 billion dong on the night of April 10, he logged back into the Vietlott app and was confirmed as the winner. “When certain, my family was overjoyed,” he said. After paying personal income tax, the winner received about 71 billion dong. He said he might deposit the money in a bank for 6–12 months before considering a prudent use for such a large sum. Over about nine years of operation, Vietlott has paid out nearly USD 1 billion to customers, equivalent to more than 2,800 billion dong per year. To date, Vietlott’s distribution network includes more than 6,620 point-of-sale terminals and 4 million accounts registered for prize draws via mobile phones. Under the new plan announced, 2026 is the first year Vietlott targets revenue exceeding 10,000 billion dong since 2016. The target corresponds to an average daily turnover of about 30 billion dong, nine times higher than a decade earlier. The mobile-ticket channel is expected to contribute 6,030 billion dong, more than 55%. About 4,760 billion dong is expected from the terminal-device distribution channel (ticket vending devices), with the remainder from financial revenue. Vietlott is a state-owned enterprise fully owned by the Ministry of Finance. The company currently offers seven lottery products using matrix, number sequences, and quick-draw formats.
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