Lottery Fever!

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Don’t know what SC’s rules are but in Texas they don’t require winners to publicly identify themselves. If I’m ever lucky enough, I take that route. Would never want to go into a virtual witness protection program.
 
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butchna said:
Don’t know what SC’s rules are but in Texas they don’t require winners to publicly identify themselves. If I’m ever lucky enough, I take that route. Would never want to go into a virtual witness protection program.
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They do in TN. Dont understand that but I would make a LLC to accept the money in my behalf.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
They do in TN. Dont understand that but I would make a LLC to accept the money in my behalf.
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States that require it require the WINNER be available for publicity interviews. You can do the LLC afterwards but they want smiling faces and whether you’re going to quit your job.
 
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butchna said:
States that require it require the WINNER be available for publicity interviews. You can do the LLC afterwards but they want smiling faces and whether you’re going to quit your job.
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I would come in with a banana yellow pimp suit complete with hat, grill and cane for my interview. Probably have a laundry list of items like in Rocky 2 "some Muppet toys...pay my bills...I'm gonna buy a snow cone machine for Paulie...new statue for the church..." with some off the wall stuff.

If I'm going to get interviewed, I'm going to make it worth my time and theirs.
 
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Grand Vol said:
I would come in with a banana yellow pimp suit complete with hat, grill and cane for my interview. Probably have a laundry list of items like in Rocky 2 "some Muppet toys...pay my bills...I'm gonna buy a snow cone machine for Paulie...new statue for the church..." with some off the wall stuff.

If I'm going to get interviewed, I'm going to make it worth my time and theirs.
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That would be epic! Doubly pulling for your success in this fool’s errand which is the lottery.
 
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butchna said:
Don’t know what SC’s rules are but in Texas they don’t require winners to publicly identify themselves. If I’m ever lucky enough, I take that route. Would never want to go into a virtual witness protection program.
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There's 8 states I believe where the winner can stay anonymous (SC is one of them)
 
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butchna said:
States that require it require the WINNER be available for publicity interviews. You can do the LLC afterwards but they want smiling faces and whether you’re going to quit your job.
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From what I'm reading you can have a Lawyer set up a LLC and he can be the smiling face that accepts in your behalf and keep your name out of public record.
 
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tumscalcium said:
I did too!

It’s time to reinvest with a ticket tonight....
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guy at my office does this. buys weekly tickets. however much he can afford with his last winning. Dollar scratchers. I think he usually gets around 20 with what he has, but I know at one point he had over 100 one week.
 
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LouderVol said:
guy at my office does this. buys weekly tickets. however much he can afford with his last winning. Dollar scratchers. I think he usually gets around 20 with what he has, but I know at one point he had over 100 one week.
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Buddy told me about this woman who worked in his office that would walk to the grocery store every day on her lunch break to buy scratch offs. One day she won $7k on a ticket. Everyone was really excited for her but he said she was pretty flat about it. He asked why and she said if you knew how much I’d spent on these over the years you wouldn’t be happy either. Sounds like a fun hobby.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
From what I'm reading you can have a Lawyer set up a LLC and he can be the smiling face that accepts in your behalf and keep your name out of public record.
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Never heard (or read) of that. Every public winner has a name...and it’s not part of a firm shingle.
 
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butchna said:
Never heard (or read) of that. Every public winner has a name...and it’s not part of a firm shingle.
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You may be right, I'm just going off tidbits that's on the internet. It would be nice if all states would allow anonymously claiming your prize. While just reading about some of this stuff there seems to be a few lawsuits of store clerks suing the winner and saying "they promised to split it with me if they won."
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
You may be right, I'm just going off tidbits that's on the internet. It would be nice if all states would allow anonymously claiming your prize. While just reading about some of this stuff there seems to be a few lawsuits of store clerks suing the winner and saying "they promised to split it with me if they won."
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Yeah those are part and parcel of winning. Back in the 80’s there was a case of a man who picked up the office pool tickets in another state every week. His co-workers stopped pitching in, but he kept making the trip and playing numbers and then he won. His former co-workers sued for a portion of the winnings and he paid a ton to lawyers who barely worked on the case. Never found out the outcome.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
You may be right, I'm just going off tidbits that's on the internet. It would be nice if all states would allow anonymously claiming your prize. While just reading about some of this stuff there seems to be a few lawsuits of store clerks suing the winner and saying "they promised to split it with me if they won."
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It’s a transparency issue. If it was always anonymous what would stop a lottery employee from rigging the game so their cousin wins or something. It’s to instill trust in the process.
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
It’s a transparency issue. If it was always anonymous what would stop a lottery employee from rigging the game so their cousin wins or something. It’s to instill trust in the process.
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Because no ONE PERSON can rig it. Independent companies bid millions for the right to operate the games. It ain’t run out of Jed’s garage. The purpose of publicizing winners is to generate more sales...pure and simple.
 
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