PARIS--15 Jun--PRNewswire-AsiaNet/InfoQuest With photo of Eric's nose When 48 year-old Frenchman Eric Prevost won ten million dollars in an American lottery the first item on his shopping list was a new nose. ( Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060609/215536 ) Eric Prevost is the first Frenchman to win ten million dollars in the "Superbucks" jackpot of FreeLotto.com, a stake-free lottery website. Although he has only today collected his winnings, he has already started spending them and his first purchase is a new nose. Until now the 48 year-old widower has been earning euro 1600 ($2040) a month as a sales technician for Bosch subsidiary Elm Leblanc. He lives in Calvados, home of the French apple liqueur, with his partner, Elisabeth, and their seven children aged from 10 to 21 years. On Thursday 15 June 2006 he was presented with his winnings at the Hilton Paris by Kevin J Aronin, CEO of NewYork-based FreeLotto.com. "I didn't realise at first that I had actually won," says Eric who started playing the Internet game on 15 December 2005. "My winning numbers came up after only two days of playing, but I missed the email telling me I'd won. It wasn't until I got a registered letter from New York on 28 December 2005 that I became aware of the great news. Then I began to think about how much better life would be if I had a new nose." Eric has already had one operation on his nose and will have the second one in 60 days' time. His partner, Elisabeth, says: "I think the new nose looks great on him. He's not quite ready to play the next James Bond, but after the second operation it will be even better and we're planning to get married after that." Eric adds: "We also plan to do a lot of travelling with our family andmay even start up our own business. This win will help us make dreams come true." Eric's plan for facial surgery to change his life was such a revelation for Aronin that he decided to make a special charitable donation worth $10,000 to the charity "SmileTrain." Aronin explains: "This is a children's charity that offers facial surgery to children from poor countries around the world who have no other chance of finding the surgery to help them overcome their disfigurement. I think it is an amazing cause and Eric has inspired me to help it through FreeLotto." Phase 1 of Eric's new nose was unveiled at 11.00am on 15 June 2006 at the Hilton Paris when he became only the fourth person in the world to collect the top prize of $10,000,000 from FreeLotto. About FreeLotto.com How it works: FreeLotto offers six online games per day: $1 Million FreeLotto, FreeLotto Win-A- Car, FreeLotto Pay-off-your-mortgage, $10,000 FreeLotto Fast Cash, $100,000 FreeLotto Cash, and the FreeLotto $10,000,000 Superbucks game. All of these games work like most national lotteries in that you pick numbers from a grid against a daily drawing. The only difference is that it's free. To submit your picks you just click an online advertisement. Eric chose the F.A.S.T. auto-play feature and had his numbers automatically played every day for a service charge of only $9.99 per 30 days. He says: "I chose my special set of numbers -- 6, 15, 20, 22, 28, 33, 34, all based on family birthdays -- and I'd have been devastated if my numbers came up and I wasn't in it. With FreeLotto's F.A.S.T. feature you can place your bet andforget it. I was doubly lucky that I won after only two days and I'm certainly going to keep on playing with F.A.S.T." http://www.freelotto.com FreeLotto's History of Giving In 2002, FreeLotto started our Click2Give Program featuring twenty-two international charities. To date the program has facilitated the donation of more than $650,000 to the charities that participate. When a player wins a small prize ($1-$5) they receive an email informing them that they won a specific amount, and informing them "while it isn't enough to change your life, with all of the other FreeLotto players you can change the world." When the player clicks that message they arrive on a page where they can read a brief description of the work of the twenty-two charities FreeLotto supports. With one click the FreeLotto winner can move their prize winnings to the charity of their choice. About "The SmileTrain" Our mission is to help children in the poorest countries to receive the miracle of a new face and a life free from the stigma of disfigurement. We help provide free cleft surgery and related treatment for children who would otherwise never receive it. In as little as 45 minutes, and for as little as $250, we can help give these children not just a new smile, but a second chance at life. To date we have helped over 179,000 children. http://www.smiletrain.org SOURCE: FreeLotto.com CONTACT: Ash Gupta of The Gupta Partnership, +44-131-312-7771, or cell +44-7774-297937, or [email protected] ; or for enquiries from the USA or Canada, Mark Braff of Braff Communications, +1-201-612-0707, or [email protected] ; or Kevin J Aronin, CEO, PlasmaNet Inc. (owners of FreeLotto.com), +1-212-931-6760, or [email protected] Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060609/215536 Web site: http://www.freelotto.com http://www.smiletrain.org --Distributed by AsiaNet ( www.asianetnews.net )--