The ubiquitous fortune cookie "lucky numbers" proved to be a big winner for Martin. He matched all the numbers, except the Mega Ball, and won $1 million in the July 24 drawing, New Jersey lottery ...

However, the fortune was actually an ad for an online gambling company. The picture shows the ad on a fortune cookie paper strip offering consumers the chance to win $250,000 by scanning a QR code.

In addition to playing automatically generated numbers like always, the 60-year-old Army veteran last month used the digits from the slip of paper inside his fortune cookie.

A man from New Jersey opened up a fortune cookie that encouraged him to 'believe in miracles' just before he went on buy a Cash4Life lottery ticket that saw him win $1,000 a week for life ...

NEW YORK, May 11 -- -- "All the preparation you've done will finally be paying off," read the fortune in Jacquelyn W. Garrett's cookie. The prophecy caught her eye, but it was the ...