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Lottery winner asking a judge to let her keep the cash and remain anonymous

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Re: Lottery winner asking a judge to let her keep the cash and remain anonymous

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post #7

Too bad, so sad. Potential top 1% problems. I live from paycheque to paycheque. I have no sympathy for her. Why did she play in the first place?

The point isn't to have sympathy for her. The point is to call out violations of privacy for anyone - no matter how much money they have.

Re: Lottery winner asking a judge to let her keep the cash and remain anonymous

#12
I honestly don't see the issue. The only reason the lotto works is because people know you can win and it's not rigged, and the only way you can know that is by making the winners public. Finally, the only reason said lottery was $XXXM is because of the people who tried and failed, funding it. I doubt lotteries would pay such large amounts long term if anonymous lotteries were standard as fraud is inevitable.

Being able to take half a billion dollars of free money anonymously and safely is hardly a right. I mean, you could simply not take it.

Seems fair to me. Am I missing something?

Re: Lottery winner asking a judge to let her keep the cash and remain anonymous

#14
post #7

Too bad, so sad. Potential top 1% problems. I live from paycheque to paycheque. I have no sympathy for her. Why did she play in the first place?

The point isn't to have sympathy for her. The point is to call out violations of privacy for anyone - no matter how much money they have.

Really? She knew what she was getting into. No one is forcing her to play the lottery.

Re: Lottery winner asking a judge to let her keep the cash and remain anonymous

#16

My understanding is that the lotto wants free advertising at the cost of the winners being made very public. It seems like this individual is doing a tremendous public service by taking this to court. I think most of us would balk at the risk of somehow losing the millions of dollars.

The point of it is to avoid fraud.

Re: Lottery winner asking a judge to let her keep the cash and remain anonymous

#18
post #7

Too bad, so sad. Potential top 1% problems. I live from paycheque to paycheque. I have no sympathy for her. Why did she play in the first place?

The point isn't to have sympathy for her. The point is to call out violations of privacy for anyone - no matter how much money they have.

You play the game. You accept the rules. That's how it works. You ever use Google? You are complying to their TOS.

Re: Lottery winner asking a judge to let her keep the cash and remain anonymous

#19
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point isn't to have sympathy for her. The point is to call out violations of privacy for anyone - no matter how much money they have.

Really? She knew what she was getting into. No one is forcing her to play the lottery.

I don't think she did know what she was getting into or else she wouldn't have signed the back with her name. I didn't know you basically had to get outed or setup an anonymous trust etc.

If nothing else, this story and court-case will make this information more commonly-known. Before/when you win millions, setup a trust and let the trust do the winning.

Re: Lottery winner asking a judge to let her keep the cash and remain anonymous

#20
post #6

I hope she wins. There's a pretty funny (or sad, I suppose) reddit comment about winning the lottery that seems pretty true: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vzgl/you_just_... Winning the lottery (publicly, at least) seems to be a real monkey's paw wish.

Note: The text of this comments is (AFAIK) originally from this 2008 forum post: https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/-/5-749519/
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