Poll of the Day > NH woman who won $559 MILLION wants to remain ANONYMOUS..but she CAN'T!!!

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An Anonymous New Hampshire woman who won the $559 million daily double jackpot last month is LOSING $14,000 a DAY as she waits to see if a judge will grant her requeset to cash in her winnings, ironically, anonymously!!

The Jane Doe won the January 6th draw in the nation's 8th largest jackpot and signed the back of her ticket to claim her prize..

But she delayed the cashing in of her ticket and will go to court this Tuesday to fight for her privacy and in turn avoid the lotto "curse" that haunted ill fated winners of the past!!

Under NH law, a lottery winner's name, town and prize amount is public information but she made a "huge mistke" in signing the ticket as lawyers tell her she could have written the name of a trust to shield her identity

But now under her lawyer's advice, time is of the essence as the delayed resolution is causing her to lose 14,000 a day where if she just accepted a lump sum, received 268 million right now

Regardless of the outcome, she wants this solved immediately so that the bleeding will stop.

She wants to donate a portion of her money to charity but she doesn't want the "attention' that comes with it as the lotto curse have claimed past winners from MURDERS to robberies to stalkers and even SUICIDE.

Do you think lotto winners should be allowed to be anonymous? let's see what people think

Where she bought her ticket -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/10/14/491147DD00000578-5367945-image-a-29_1518274572321.jpg

Lotto winners who have died -

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/10/14/48F04F0600000578-5367945-Abraham_Shakespeare_seen_left_with_relatives_won_the_Florida_Lot-a-15_1518272766064.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/10/14/48F135D200000578-5367945-Jeffrey_Dampier_was_murdered_in_2005_by_his_sister_in_law_ten_ye-a-3_1518271929406.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/10/14/48F04F0100000578-5367945-Doris_Murray_won_5million_in_Georgia_in_2007_She_was_stabbed_to_-a-7_1518272134674.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/10/14/48F04EFD00000578-5367945-Deborah_McDonald_won_5_000_in_Sandusky_Ohio_on_the_Cash_Explosio-a-9_1518272325394.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/10/14/48F04F0D00000578-5367945-Billie_Bob_Harrell_killed_himself_in_1999_two_years_after_winnin-a-16_1518273025124.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/10/16/48F135B400000578-5367945-Jack_Whittaker_won_315million_in_2002-a-11_1518280778295.jpg

Evelyn Basehore - Now living in a trailer park

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/02/10/14/48F135E800000578-5367945-Evelyn_Basehore_64_is_now_living_in_a_trailer_park-a-23_1518273653936.jpg
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I'd say yes. I know said lotteries are just trying to be transparent to cover their own arse and encourage others but I feel people will continue to play even if there's no proof of there being actual winners. Obviously some people do take note of the winners and harass them but in general I'd imagine most people forget who the winners are within a week.
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Full Throttle posted...

Do you think lotto winners should be allowed to be anonymous?

No, because it enables fraud and undermines the overall integrity of the system.
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Zeus posted...

Full Throttle posted...

Do you think lotto winners should be allowed to be anonymous?

No, because it enables fraud and undermines the overall integrity of the system.

In what way?
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Lokarin posted...

Zeus posted...

Full Throttle posted...

Do you think lotto winners should be allowed to be anonymous?

No, because it enables fraud and undermines the overall integrity of the system.

In what way?

Well, for starters, you have dishonest clerks who sell lotto tickets and have a system which checks lotto tickets for winners. From time to time, people will ask them to check a bundle of tickets and the clerks will report no winners then go to cash them in themselves. You could also have an acquaintance who steals a ticket or something. Then you have stuff like this:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/30/mastermind-of-lottery-fraud-admits-he-rigged-jackpots.html

Ironically enough, it was only caught BECAUSE the guy wanted to cash it anonymously:

The group, which included Tipton's brother Tommy Tipton and a friend, Texas businessman Robert Rhodes, also attempted to collect a $16.5 million Hot Lotto ticket in December 2010 in Iowa, but Iowa lottery officials refused to pay it because the men tried to cash it anonymously. Iowa rules require the buyer and owner of the ticket to be made public.

That led to an investigation into a potential lottery fraud. Once Tipton was identified as a possible suspect, investigators began checking for connections to other winning games and zeroed in on winnings connected to Tipton, his brother, and Rhodes in the other states.

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There should be an independent government agency in charge of verifying good practice when it comes to lottery winners. The privacy of lottery winners should be a priority given that gangs have, on numerous occasions, scouted out lottery winners and extorted much of their prize money from them.

I don't play the lottery because I have an understanding of expected payoff functions, but the threat to personal safety would also sway me away from participating as well.
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faramir77 posted...

There should be an independent government agency in charge of verifying good practice when it comes to lottery winners

That's why I didn't get the topic - we have that in Canada
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Lokarin posted...

faramir77 posted...

There should be an independent government agency in charge of verifying good practice when it comes to lottery winners

That's why I didn't get the topic - we have that in Canada

It's a provincial thing I think, but I'm pretty sure all provinces have it, yes.

I don't believe you can chose to remain anonymous, however.
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Sounds like they are bullying her and taking away money away everyday is messed up

faramir77 posted...

It's a provincial thing I think, but I'm pretty sure all provinces have it, yes.

right, I think it might just be a WCLC thing
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Going public seems like an unnecessarily dangerous way to do it.

"Hey serial killers, don't you hate this person more fortunate than you?"
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I'd just move.

I mean, I understand the lottery's logic, but it still feels unnecessary to make it all public. There should be another way to prevent shenanigans. No picture, just a name, or vice versa? I dunno... it wouldn't work well for everybody unless you were "Steve Johnson" or something. I have a weird-ass surname and Google searching my first and last names together finds only two other people in the country, iirc (it's been a while).

They should video record a testimony and keep it on file in the event a court case erupts or there's an investigation, I guess, so they can prove accountability. That seems better.
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faramir77 posted...

There should be an independent government agency in charge of verifying good practice when it comes to lottery winners.

There kinda is depending on the lotto, but it's *never* going to be as effective as announcing winners especially because it can't catch certain kinds of fraud. And also because there are logistical issues since the US has many different lottos, some of which are exclusive to certain regions.

faramir77 posted...

The privacy of lottery winners should be a priority given that gangs have, on numerous occasions, scouted out lottery winners and extorted much of their prize money from them.

Which is a kinda ridiculous claim given that normal rich people have those problems as well so, unless somebody wasn't going to spend any of that money, it's still on the table. And it's an extreme longshot at that.
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