Now Nguyen Van Het admits he'll have to hurry up and enjoy his £200,000 win before his time on earth runs out.
'I've been poor all my life and now I've got all this money,' he said at his home in the south of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon).
With the average annual income in Vietnam just £500, Mr Het admits he'll have a lot of trouble spending the money before he dies.
But he agrees that if he's not careful, relatives, beggars, tricksters and opportunists will try to take it all from him, even though he has now banked his winnings - or what is left of them.
He has already given away a large amount of his windfall to people who have swarmed around his home after word leaked out that he had won the enormous prize in the lottery. He used 100,000 dong (about £2.50) to buy lottery tickets from what he called 'lucky money' that had been given to him by relatives to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
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