A man in North Carolina is $4 million richer after using the numbers he found in a fortune cookie to play the lottery. Gabriel Fierro of Cornelius, N.C., played a $4 Multiplier Mega Millions ticket and won drawing for a total of $4M in winnings. "I don't usually play my fortune cookie numbers but I tried them on a whim," Fierro, 60, said. The retired master sergeant said the fortune cookie came from the Red Bowl restaurant in Charlotte where he regularly eats with his wife. Fierro played Mega Millions, buying a $3 ticket using Online Play and adding $1 to make it a Megaplier ticket, which would multiply any win. He matched all five white balls to win $1 million, which was then quadrupled to $4 million thanks to his Megaplier. "I got an email in the morning and I just stared at it dumbfounded," Fierro said. When Fierro arrived at lottery headquarters to collect his prize, his net total after federal and state tax withholdings was $2,840,401.