Anonimity and/or Privacy

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AlecWest — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:45:45 GMT

I was hoping that someone would respond (grin). I think you and I are probably in the minority - people who really WANT to retain their privacy and anonimity. A few months back, I put up a website with the results of extensive research on that topic:

http://LuckyYou.atspace.com

Here's an example. Kansas lottery law has a specific provision that mandates anonimity for all lottery jackpot winners. It's even an exclusion under Kansas state open-records laws. The ONLY way they can rel... [ More ]

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Coin Toss — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:34:18 GMT

Among the people I wouldn't tell would definitely be anyone who is a known gambler.

Gamblers always want other people to bail them out - just so they can go play some more.

There have been books written about what to do if you won a kackpoet, and in fact the Missouri Lottery website has a page about what to do if you win a jackpot, and they themselves advise:

Changing your phone #

Getting a P O Box

and blowing town for awhile.

In one of the books I mentioned above, the auth... [ More ]

Anonimity and/or Privacy

AlecWest — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:33:40 GMT

Just want to get some opinions here. Assume for a moment that you found out you'd won a lottery jackpot and decided to take the lump-sum cash option of, say, $10,000,000. What would you do, if anything, prior to redemption and after redemption, to protect your anonimity and/or privacy? Who would you tell? Who wouldn't you tell