Skull Pilot said:
Buy an island and forget the rest of the world
What about pirates coming to steal your bootie?
From a bank in the Cayman Islands?
You see what happened when that American liberal went over to the middle East and got caught and eventually the Taliban "married her" then killed her because we didn't pay the random? That would be you.
My own private island and the Middle East are light years away from each other in that regard
Point is, people are going to learn some rich guy bought an island. You got go worry about locals. You saw roadhouse right?
I'm going to move away. People might see me when I'm in town visiting friends but for the most part people won't know where I live and my phone. And if I knew you in highschool don't Facebook me now.
We have property up north. My cousin wants to go hunt with us. No thanks.
Can you imagine how many people would start calling you every week? Yikes
Well the problem with the lottery is that people know you won. They are going to know you won, whether you buy an island somewhere or not.
So that argument about people going crazy and finding you, that's going to happen with every single plan that anyone on this entire thread comes up with, no matter what they do.
In fact, the only possibility is to donate the ticket itself, to a charitable organization. I only know that, because apparently it happened years ago. I remember reading that some un-named couple donated the ticket to a charity, and asked the lottery commission to approve it. Which they did, and thus the couple was never named. Only the charity organization that received the ticket was named as getting it. (I am assuming I remember this right. It's been years since I read that story).
My point though is, anyone who actually wins the lottery, your only hope is to literally disappear. Unless you are willing to put up with the nonsense, your only hope is to fall off the planet. Go off grid. Close all your accounts, every account with an address. Close your phone. Change your residence, everything. I would even suggest getting advice from a professional, at making the rich and famous disappear.
Back to buying the Island. That actually isn't all that big of a deal. You can place the money into a trust. Have the trust, buy the Island. Much of the Panama Papers, had tons of that stuff going on. People opened trusts, to keep what they had hidden. Included in that was property in other countries.
So just make up a name, create "Lighting Sparks Trust" put the money in there, and then have the trust buy the Island, and then no one anywhere, has any idea who owns that Island, because it's just listed as "property of Lighting Sparks Trust".
Moreover, getting security isn't all that difficult. You can have a security firm easily cover your Island for life, and never run out of money.
In fact, you could likely have all the servants you want, from some isolated place, serve you for life, and not run out of money.
