$230 million bucks but no place to hide...

[BrickCop]

The multi state Mega Millions jackpot is projected to be 230 million. How could you escape the media and moocher madness if you won? Granted it's a "problem" we all wish we had but short of leaving the country how would you keep your anonymity?

Dumb thread I'll grant you but it's a hot, lazy Suinday and I'm fantasizing I will have this "dilemma". :D

[pappabacon]

When I win it in Tuesday I will have a trust receive it, rather than myself.

http://www.thatmoney.com/read-165-Just_Won_the_Lottery___What_s_Your_Next_Move_.htm

[ICEAGENT]

Quit job.

Immediately put all your crap in storage except necessities.

Put house up for sale.

Change phone number and email and only tell select few people.

Check into fancy hotel for an indefinite period while doing financial planning.

[School Cop]

Step 1: Do an internet search for people with my name. Make a list of their phone numbers to leave by the phone.

Step 2: When people call that I do not know, say in an exasperated voice, "No! No! No! It's not me, OK! I'm a golf coach!" (Or insert some other profession you always wanted to try. It's make believe, after all.) "Do you think I'd still be a golf coach if I were a multimillionaire? That guy lives in Dallas (San Francisco/ Las Vegas / Miami)! Do you need his number?"

Step 3: Allow all the other School Cops around the country to reply in the same fashion to all the callers I refer to them. Pretty soon, no one knows which one of us actually won the money.


With some effort, this could work. Although there would be photographic evidence and a paper trail that leads only to me, how many people would go to the trouble? Most people are lazy.

[iamacop]

1. I would tell some of my employees and supervisors what I really think about them.... Whoops, I already do that.

2. Buy a McDonalds

3. Buy a soft serve machine

4. Buy an island

5. Donate atleast 10 million to the Officer Down Memorial Page..

[KJB]

Change my name back to my birth name.
Change wife and kids names too.
Move to the mountains or the southerh part of the US.
Build a compound with auto turrets (that legal??) and an zombie proof defense along the perimeter.
Buy a politician.

[pm1031]

I would buy a net gun

[mtxpro752]

I'd buy a nice comfortable 2500-3000 sq ft house in every place i'd like to live or visit or think about living or visiting. Pull a Travolta and buy a few private planes and a heli and spend my days sipping fruity frozen cocktails on my private beach saying, damn I should probably go to at least one of those houses I bought one of these days.

[kckpd756]

Buy a bunch of land, build a gated community that would be tactically sound and defendable, complete with bomb shelter food storage and alternative energy sources. You know keep it green and all, allow Family and select close friends to live there. Spend my time split between there and various tropical locations. And sip alot of Fruity Drinks.

[just joe]

Sell your house, change your cell phone number and email, drop out of site for awhile and only let those very close to you know where you are and tell them not to tell anybody. Might even leave the country for a year. I'd probably give most of the money away.

[mrc27]

When I win it in Tuesday I will have a trust receive it, rather than myself.

http://www.thatmoney.com/read-165-Just_Won_the_Lottery___What_s_Your_Next_Move_.htmT his is what I've always planned to do, if I won.
Shut up - but tell your dog!
Hire a qualified attorney
Establish a blind trust
Collect the lump payment
Allow a professional to invest the winnings
Take one year to plan before spending

[loring1970]

Ha! I was just thinking about this today driving into work. (Its hard to miss those MegaMillions billboards with the amount of jackpot.) As I sat in traffic I decided I would do this.

1. Not tell anyone.
2. Take a leave of absence from work.
3. Quietly remove furnishings from house and sell it.
4. Move family into mother-in-laws house (temporarily).
5. Claim winnings.
6. After making some sound financial planning, take some money and build new house. Nothing huge but I want land, lots of it.
7. Purchase new vehicles. (Nothing crazy, but I might get a toy, like a Porsche).
8. After a year, return to duty and slide it out so I can finish my 20 (3 years away.)
9. RETIRE and learn to fly a plane.