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Lottery winner claims prize in "Scream" mask to hide identity
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It's 1.2 million dollars.
Which is "kill your family and take everything" money in Jamaica.
I think in the US people wear masks because while you're required in many states to reveal who the winner is there is no requirement to providing a photo so that's why you get people showing up in silly masks here. Just a step to protect their privacy a bit more when they're already gonna get bombed with requests/threats since their name is out there.
I'm not sure, but a store I worked at sold an 11 million winner, and it was finally claimed 6 months later by a blind trust. The only one who knows who that person was was the store manager. We had someone come in claiming they won, but his Mom washed the ticket in his pants. So the Ohio Lottery had to come in with the time the ticket was sold, and see if that was the person who bought the ticket. It was not, but she recognized the person.
IIRC correctly, you actually make more money in the long run taking the lump sum and investing it/letting it collect interest, provided you have the self-restraint to not touch most of it. The rates you get with the annuity option barely keep up with inflation.
You take a 50% hit with the lump sum pay out right from the start. I was only talking about the lottery money only. Wasn't taking any investment or interest into consideration. Let's face it, these people are not investing their winnings. In the end, I'll take a $300m annuity over a $150M lump sum.
You're just adding an extra step. People will know by public records the name change and who you were.
As mentioned, it varies by state.
In Georgia, you cannot claim prizes anonymously, so if I hit a jackpot, I'd have to spend a couple of months setting up an legal entity (like an LLC or Trust), then claim it on my behalf, just to add a layer of obfuscation to it. Even then, it would probably not take much effort to dig through public records to get whatever information you want.
