The Lottery - Controversy and Rumors

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Close-up of woman's hand facing up and holding cute pink piggy bank that has started to disintegrate into pieces on light-blue background. Money worries. Financial difficulties. Profit loss.
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By: Seth Cross

As mentioned in my last post, there are some states that allow lottery winners to remain anonymous, but still many do not. There is a great deal of controversy and debate surrounding this issue. On one hand, allowing winners to stay anonymous protects them by not allowing the rest of the world to find out they're a multi-millionaire over night. However, if winners were allowed to remain anonymous, it would be extremely easy for fraudulent practices to occur by the lottery itself. The lottery organization could just declare a "winner", and keep the money themselves or paid out to a person of their choice. I understand this sounds far fetched, but there's been a great deal researched and written about this very conundrum. Many lottery organizations, on advice from the FTC, want to remain as transparent about how they operate and how they payout their big prizes. If not, they will fall under tremendous scrutiny by the general public. It's easy to see how there's a bit of a rock and a hard place situation here. Either we have transparent lotteries where the winners are at significant risk, or we have anonymous winners and fear of a fraudulent lottery.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/can-you-spare-million-why-it-pays-stay-anonymous-after-n70071

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/lottery-winners-anonymous.html

Comments

  1. Taylor LongApril 19, 2020 at 7:00 PM

    I feel like if I won the lottery I would want to stay anonymous, but word gets out super quick even if you didn't tell anyone.

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  2. Elle BarrettApril 23, 2020 at 11:59 AM

    It's a really good idea for the winners to stay anonymous for the sole purpose of their safety.

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  3. Andrew MercerApril 24, 2020 at 8:09 PM

    I would think that if someone won the lottery it would be very difficult to remain anonymous.

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