Lorry driver wins two Porsches worth £170k after mistaking letter for spam

Jimmy Callaghan with his lorry and 2 caller Porsches (Image: Omaze)

A lorry operator has won 2 brand-new Porsches worthy implicit £170k combined - for conscionable £35.

Jimmy Callaghan, 58 and from London, won the Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid and Boxster S successful the Omaze Million Pound House Draw.

When helium saw the email from Omaze telling him he'd won, helium thought it was “probably spam” and should delete it but is “very gladsome (he) decided against it”.

His regular thrust is simply a Volvo FH16 lorry, which has a apical velocity of conscionable 55mph. His caller motors tin scope speeds of 158mph and 177mph. Jimmy has worked arsenic an HGV operator for 30 years and presently works for operation institution Quattro UK Ltd, delivering mixed cement to gathering projects.

Outside of work, Jimmy drives a Ford C-Max with 200k miles connected the timepiece worthy £2,000. He’s looking guardant to owning a ULEZ compliant car, arsenic the caller restrictions person meant helium tin nary longer usage his car successful London.

He had lone conscionable travel retired of infirmary aft an exigency appendicitis operation, erstwhile helium recovered retired astir his treble win. 

Jimmy said: “I was perfectly flabbergasted erstwhile they told me. I inactive can’t judge it present adjacent though I’m looking close astatine them. Nothing makes you consciousness amended than winning 2 Porsches I tin archer you. They are perfectly stunning. 

“To accidental they’re a spot antithetic from my lorry would beryllium a monolithic understatement. My lorry doesn’t adjacent bash 60mph - present I’ve got 2 cars that deed 60 successful 4 seconds! I deliberation I’ll crook much heads successful these than I bash successful my lorry.”

The lorry operator and widower said helium feels similar “the luckiest antheral successful London, possibly adjacent the world”. He is simply a centrifugal racing instrumentality and a petrol caput - but “never dreamed (he’d) ever ain a Porsche - fto unsocial two”.

He added: “I’m not definite what I’ll bash with them some agelong word yet - I mightiness support 1 to bask and merchantability the different to slope the cash, it's a fantastic presumption to beryllium in. £35 summons for £170k worthy of cars isn’t atrocious is it?

“Whatever I bash my brag volition beryllium blessed arsenic I won’t discontinue aboriginal - I’d beryllium bored retired of my mind! 

“I entered Omaze arsenic I emotion the houses evidently - but I besides similar supporting bully causes excessively - I’m gladsome truthful overmuch wealth was raised for CALM. If it tin hap to me, it tin hap to anyone.”

Jimmy’s Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid is simply a 4 instrumentality thrust with a 3.0-litre V6 petrol motor and 25.9kWh artillery - that provides implicit 40 miles of electrical range. It tin accelerate from 0-60mph successful conscionable implicit 4 seconds, has a apical velocity of 158 mph and covers a 4th mile successful a small implicit 12 seconds

The Porsche Boxster S comes successful black, with matching achromatic extortion and positive 20in wheels. Its 2.5-litre turbocharged ‘flat-four’ motor produces 350PS, and 420Nm of torque to the rear wheels, propelling the lithe sports car from 0-62mph successful conscionable 4.2sec and apical velocity of 177 mph. It covers a 4th mile successful a 11 seconds

Jimmy paid conscionable £35 for his winning introduction arsenic portion of his Omaze Million Pound House Draw subscription. The gully helium entered raised £3,500,000 for termination prevention foundation Campaign Against Living Miserably - CALM.

James Oakes, Chief International Officer astatine Omaze, said: “We’re thrilled that Jimmy has won not 1 but 2 imagination cars. Not lone did helium triumph 1 of our Early Bird Prizes, helium besides contributed to the unthinkable £3,500,000 raised for CALM. We’re tremendously arrogant that the Omaze assemblage has already raised implicit £63 cardinal for bully causes crossed the UK.”

Jimmy is hoping his bully luck continues truthful helium tin container an Omaze location 1 day, but said he’d consciousness “a spot greedy” if helium won a location arsenic well.