$100K Surrey lotto winner is \u2018Susan F.\u2019 because BCLC won\u2019t give full names<\/p>\n
Published 4:07 pm Thursday, June 4, 2026<\/p>\n
News releases from BCLC no longer give full names of lottery winners including that of Surrey resident Susan F., who won a $100,000 MAXPLUS prize playing Lotto Max.<\/p>\n
Last January BCLC began sharing only the first name and last initial for all lottery winners, in an apparent move to protect privacy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis approach is aligned with other jurisdictions in Canada that only promote winners\u2019 first names and last initials,\u201d wrote Shelley Wong, with BCLC Media Relations, in an email to the Now-Leader.<\/p>\n
And so, BCLC this week declared Susan F. a winner of a Lotto Max draw May 8. <\/p>\n
Susan F., we\u2019re told, was out grocery shopping and, on a whim, decided to buy a lottery ticket at Willowbrook Shopping Centre in Langley, even though she wasn\u2019t at her usual store.<\/p>\n
Later, \u201cI was at Chevron and I scanned the ticket on the self-scanner,\u201d Susan says. \u201cMy first thought was that it was a mistake. I scanned it again, then scanned it a third time and then thought \u2018okay!\u2019 It wasn\u2019t until I scanned it the second and third time that I realized I won.\u201d<\/p>\n
Susan F. was \u201cat a loss for words,\u201d and didn\u2019t have much else to say about her lotto win.<\/p>\n
BCLC says every Lotto Max draw includes multiple $100,000 cash prizes. For every $1 million in the main jackpot, a $100,000 prize is added to the draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"$100K Surrey lotto winner is \u2018Susan F.\u2019 because BCLC won\u2019t give full names Published 4:07 pm Thursday, June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-715649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}