Limit the number of people who know you've won.
Folks always want to glom off the winnings or hard work of others.
Amazingly, a couple of weeks after my Daddy died, my mother received a letter from a perfect stranger, saying that since my mother would probably get money from his insurance, she should send some to this perfect stranger, who had fallen on 'hard times'.
I have no idea how this woman got my mother's address, and I was absolutely amazed by the gall of her to write and ask for money from someone she doesn't know, with the attitude that somehow she deserved to get it.
That is almost unbelievable.
The first lottery winner in Texas was a single nurse in her fifties. She won a million dollars. She eventually had to move out of her home and go into hiding. Strangers were knocking on her door at all times of the night.
If I was to win NOBODY would know. Not even family.
Advice for people who win big: help the friends you had before the hit. The ones who helped you move, or drove you home when you got drunk, or were pallbearers at a loved one funerals. Those were the ones who knew you when you were going thru you sofa for spare change and still stuck by you. Those will be your only friends you can trust.
And beware of any relatives you havent seen in a long time. And dont be afraid to tell people to push off when they come asking for cash.
And stay away from Vegas.
Good grief. Probably some scumbag, Democrat con artist who reads obituaries and tries to take advantage of the bereaved.
That's despicably low.
People with nothing better to do sit and read obituaries in the paper, and then make their plans.
I don’t think I would tell ANYONE!
Not even family!
Someone will ALWAYS tell at least one other person.
Always!