£40 mill lottery couple
Discussion
grantone said:
ZeeTacoe said:
How truly f
king stupid do you have to be to tell everyone though?
They will be advised by someone appointed by Camelot, Camelot has a vested interest towards publicity to help ticket sales, I believe the line would be that if you go public you control the first round of publicity.king stupid do you have to be to tell everyone though?Unless you're already reasonably wealthy it must be impossible to both enjoy and hide a lottery win and keep in contact with your family and current social circle, so I would tend to agree with that line.
grantone said:
Unless you're already reasonably wealthy it must be impossible to both enjoy and hide a lottery win and keep in contact with your family and current social circle, so I would tend to agree with that line.
Agreed . If you were savvy it could be done, an elaborate spin of house buying miles from where you live, over say a five year period could fool most. Might have been easier during the boom. Would require a formidable individual to pull off. Do Camelot offer winners an incentive for going public?
If a winner chooses not to go public they’re not entitled to support from the Camelot press office in dealing with the problems that come with being a lottery winner. Camelot does offer support to all jackpot winners through their winners advisor, who they can remain in touch with if they wish, but the press office can only offer media support if a winner goes public.
Vicky Radcliffe from Camelot says: “It is entirely the choice of the ticket-holder. Jackpot winners meet with their winner advisor at the time of their validation and are given all the publicity options, including the chance to remain anonymous.
“It is down to the winners to decide whether going public is the right option for them. If they choose to remain anonymous, their details would never be disclosed. The press office would only receive winners’ details if they chose to go public.”
If a winner chooses not to go public they’re not entitled to support from the Camelot press office in dealing with the problems that come with being a lottery winner. Camelot does offer support to all jackpot winners through their winners advisor, who they can remain in touch with if they wish, but the press office can only offer media support if a winner goes public.
Vicky Radcliffe from Camelot says: “It is entirely the choice of the ticket-holder. Jackpot winners meet with their winner advisor at the time of their validation and are given all the publicity options, including the chance to remain anonymous.
“It is down to the winners to decide whether going public is the right option for them. If they choose to remain anonymous, their details would never be disclosed. The press office would only receive winners’ details if they chose to go public.”
jimslops said:
Of-course not. Gangsters never target people who have money.
They'll still be relatively anonymous though. Nothing particularly unusual about them, unless they walk around telling everybody who they are. The chances of them carrying large amounts of cash around with them are the same as anybody else with a large amount of cash.Sonic said:
Best of luck to them 
I'd be straight in the car, on my way to part-ex the clio in for http://pistonheads.com/sales/3610741.htm
SRSLY?I'd be straight in the car, on my way to part-ex the clio in for http://pistonheads.com/sales/3610741.htm
The interior colour would make me sick
too red baby
But with £44,000,000 (+interest accruing) I suppose I could get summat done about that...
Best of luck to them both
Camelot, is it my turn yet?
BMWBen said:
If you ignored inflation and played it safe at today's rates you'd get about 150k per year. So... Not that much really.
How do you figure that - most high street building societies are offering around 3% interest, so you'd get a gross of £1.35M pa, and with a good accountant you'd keep at least half of itZeeTacoe said:
grantone said:
ZeeTacoe said:
How truly fking stupid do you have to be to tell everyone though?
They will be advised by someone appointed by Camelot, Camelot has a vested interest towards publicity to help ticket sales, I believe the line would be that if you go public you control the first round of publicity.king stupid do you have to be to tell everyone though?Unless you're already reasonably wealthy it must be impossible to both enjoy and hide a lottery win and keep in contact with your family and current social circle, so I would tend to agree with that line.
The media would hunt you down and want to know why you hid from them, better to go public share your good fortune with family and friends and do some charity work. (As well as buying yourself 30 car collection)
Everyone's a winner then.
It's all very well saying you'd help out friends and family but where does it stop? Once you've bought them houses they'll come back for money for a business, education for their kids, etc. Who do you cut out? Those who miss out are going to be mightily pissed off!
It's a poisoned chalice and the reason I never do the lottery. Folk shouldn't be gifted wealth, they should earn it.
It's a poisoned chalice and the reason I never do the lottery. Folk shouldn't be gifted wealth, they should earn it.
supersingle said:
It's all very well saying you'd help out friends and family but where does it stop? Once you've bought them houses they'll come back for money for a business, education for their kids, etc. Who do you cut out? Those who miss out are going to be mightily pissed off!
Poppycock. It stops where you say it stops. If they come back for more weeks/months/years later and you don't want to give it to them then don't give it to them. Those that miss out can be as pissed off as they like, they would have played the same odds as you when they bought a ticket, you won, they lost. People should be given what you feel they deserve and what you can afford. Wills2 said:
Living a lie I would imagine is very stressful, would you really want to just up and disappear leaving family and friends forever? It would be like being in some sort of witness protection program.
The media would hunt you down and want to know why you hid from them, better to go public share your good fortune with family and friends and do some charity work. (As well as buying yourself 30 car collection)
Everyone's a winner then.
I can't imagine it would be stressful, and why would you need to 'up and disappear'? After finding out you'd won you could go on an extended world holiday for a couple of months and by the time you came back the newspapers and media would have some other crap to tell the world about. The media would hunt you down and want to know why you hid from them, better to go public share your good fortune with family and friends and do some charity work. (As well as buying yourself 30 car collection)
Everyone's a winner then.
What I would do if I won £40M would be to tell family and friends weeks later than we'd had a modest normal Saturday night non-rollover win, here is a few quid to pay off your mortgage, spend a few quid ourselves getting a house built somewhere in the UK and buying a few choice cars for the garage then live off the interest for the rest of our lives.
What I would NOT do is go public. Absolute madness.
supersingle said:
Just imagine for a moment that you've just won the lottery. Over the next five years how many friends will you lose? How many friends will you gain? Will you be better off at the end of it?
Real friends stay, bad friends go. So you'd be £45m better off with real friends. And a few wannabe fake ones. Worth the risk for 45mill surely?Pommygranite said:
Real friends stay, bad friends go. So you'd be £45m better off with real friends. And a few wannabe fake ones. Worth the risk for 45mill surely?
Well, £40m might make me act like a tt and lead to me losing my friends. At the end of it I might end up with no money, no friends and a fking great big yacht. 
I can't be bothered with the lotto. It's just an opiate for the masses.
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