North Carolina lottery winners of $5 million and more could remain anonymous

Comment #12

CDanaT — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:48:09 GMT

SWEET !!!!! Unfortunately, our leadership chooses to let you suffer the potential wrath of criminals and offers no such protection on any dollar amount above $600.

Comment #11

CDanaT — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:44:42 GMT

It gets trumped when you become a primary target of criminal activities. As the article indicates

Only government entities such as the North Carolina Department of Revenue and the IRS would have access to winners' identifying information for tax purposes, debt collection, and legal proceedings.

Those is the only people that need to know .

You can go to the press yourself, get on social media and volunteer all the information you want since your desire is to be a show pony, look at... [ More ]

Comment #10

Artist77 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:37:28 GMT

It actually tends to have the opposite effect. Virginia moved to anonymity years ago for wins of over $10 million years ago and had increasing online sales. They had banner years and then moved to lower the anonymity to wins of $1 million and over.

The biggest threat to the integrity of the lottery are lottery clerks and lottery employees.

Comment #9

ShagE3 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 23:45:37 GMT

I think the best course of action should one win tonight is to join a nudist colony because at least there you don't have to worry about pickpockets ..... and family, friends and friends of family and family of friends would probably not hound you for $$$$$$ while you are living this new lifestyle.

I mean any 3rd cousin twice removed who would dare approach you for $$$$$ would have to ditch the clothes before entering the community .

Just my $.02.

ShagE3

Comment #8

JustMaybe — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 23:18:32 GMT

I can't imagine winning the 1.1B jackpot and having my picture in the news.

That would be enough reason for me to move.

I am happy I can be anonymous where I live.

Comment #7

grwurston — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:32:24 GMT

According to the North Carolina Lottery, there were four wins of at least $5 million and 75 wins of at least $1 million in Fiscal Year 2024.

So this new change only would helped the 4 winners and not the other 75. They need to have complete anonymity for all prize amounts and then give the winners the option if they want their photo and info publicized or not.

Comment #6

dannyct — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:25:01 GMT

Publishing the identity of lottery winners is putting a target on their back. Thankfully, State Lotteries in Australia allow winners to remain anonymous.

Graeme Thorne was an eight year old Australian boy, who was kidnapped and murdered in 1960.

A month before the kidnapping, his parents, Bazil and Freda Thorne, who lived in a modest rented flat in the Sydney beachside suburb of Bondi, had won 100,000 in the newly conceived Opera House Lottery, designed to raise money for the constructio... [ More ]

Comment #5

pstfleur — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:58:24 GMT

So glad I live in Georgia where we can remain anonymous if the jackpot is $250K or more.

Comment #4

hearsetrax — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:13:03 GMT

they ought to rat out this big winners on the smaller games LOL

Comment #3

MsBee18 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:13:42 GMT

What happened to transparency and accountability

Comment #2

billybucks — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:58:43 GMT

But lottery sales would plummet. The whole fun of the lottery is seeing what someone does with the money. No one would believe that it is legit if you couldn't expose the winners. They would think it is like the Publishers Clearing House scam.

Comment #1

mypiemaster — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:48:30 GMT

A little baby step in the right direction, but we still need full anonymity.

North Carolina lottery winners of $5 million and more could remain anonymous

Lottery Post — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:30:18 GMT

Anonymity lottery bill is well on its way to possibly becoming law

By Kate Northrop

North Carolina lawmakers are heavily considering a bill that would allow all lottery winners of $5 million or more to keep their identifying information hidden from the public.

An anonymity lottery bill passed the North Carolina Senate earlier this spring, and with lawmakers set to reconvene the legislative session this fall, it's up to the House to decide next whether it becomes a reality.

Senate... [ More ]