Re: Lottery Winners
Declaring yourself as a lottery winner (which I was planning to do until someone beat me to it) has to be one of the worst things you could do in your lifetime. You would become instant target for every weirdo, thief, blackmailer, kidnapper and assorted scum who would stop at nothing to get your hands on it.Re: Lottery Winners
I would not go public and sad to say, it wouldn't change my life too much, I'd buy a holiday home or three, all in the UK.Re: Lottery Winners
There will always be people who will get to know it's true, but why make it so easy for total strangers to find out where you work, where you live, where your children go to school etc. I know the publicity must be great for Camelot, but you surely don't owe them a favour for winning?Re: Lottery Winners
If I won £1,000,000+ I definitely wouldn't want to go public as I would absolutely hate being in the limelight. No big presentations for me thank you, just a polite note to say that 'said amount' had been deposited into my bank account would suffice! My family and I would be quite capable of deciding where, what and to whom the money would go to ........ if the occasion ever arose.Re: Lottery Winners
I'm sure the Lottery Companies put pressure on the winners, possibly quite subtly, to get themselves maximum publicity in the media. They know sales zoom upwards when a huge win is announced, and all and sundry want to be next. Myself, I would tend to keep it quiet, but oh how lovely it would be to inform all those people who gave you grief of one sort and another in the past!Re: Lottery Winners
Actually I think that there may be a legal obligation to go public to some extent if you accept the winnings. I have a vague recollection of reading somewhere that accepting winnings forms a contract with Camelot which includes their being able to make your details public?Re: Lottery Winners
I would not go public but I fear Mr. TWHRider would, even though he says he wouldn't
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