A scammed lottery winner in 2006 finally gets the $5 Million jackpot prize seven years after, New York Post reported Sunday.

The central New York maintenance worker, who was talked into selling his winning scratch-off ticket for $5,000, was verified to be the rightful winner of the $5 million jackpot prize by the New York Lottery Gaming Commission, and is now to receive the said prize the following week, Syracuse Post-Standard wrote Thursday.

According to New York Post, the maintenance worker, identified as Robert Miles, bought the scratch-off ticket in October 2006 at a convenience store in Syracuse, owned by Nayer Ashkar.

Reports stated that although Miles, who was reportedly addicted to drugs during that time, sold the ticket to Ashkar's two sons, after the later convinced Miles that the scratch-off ticket was worth $5,000 only.

"They don't sell $5 million tickets in the hood," Nayer's son, Andy Ashkar, now 35, who was the clerk at the store during that time, told Miles. Andy's brother, Nyel, now 37, then, offered Miles $4,000 for the ticket, saying that the extra $1,000 would be kept as cashing fee of some sort.

Since the brothers waited until 2012 to claim the scratch-off ticket jackpot, lottery officials, out of suspicion, prompted an investigation right away.

As a result, Andy Ashkar is now facing a 25-year imprisonment for possessing the stolen ticket, and although he and his brother Nayel have been cleared from the conspiracy charges, Andy was found guilty for possessing stolen property. Their father also pleaded guilty this month, admitting that he had lied in a state lottery affidavit earlier. He is to face conspiracy charges as well.

Miles said in his testimony on the case that he was under the influence of cocaine when he bought the ticket, leading to his confusion as to what really happened back then.

Miles lawyer told The Post-Standard of Syracuse this week that he was "elated the lottery prize has finally been awarded to him."

Although Miles would have been given $250,000 annuity over 20 years for the $5,000,000 jackpot prize, he is now provided with two options because the change implemented by the Gaming Commission this year. Now, he has two options: going home with a lump-sum of $3,210,000 yielding $2,124,378 after taxes, or taking the $250,000 annuity offer.