Lucky Brit Scoops Highest UK Lottery Win

Dangerous said:
I hate the email they send you though:



Don't know if you have won £2 or 84 mill! :o
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I hate emails like that, like the reply about a job I really wanted:

Dear BigglesPiP,
Thank you for attending our recent assessment centre (:( oh no, I failed), we are delighted to inform you (:D YES! YES! ****ing WIN!)

It should have been:

Dear BigglesPiP,
Yes.

Regards,
Your favourite company.
 
I think I could hide an £87 mil win. I'd just start a small business and let it build up - then when I started living lavishly I'd say it was the business doing well. I'd be able to unfairly expand due to super cashflow but unless my friends started going through my accounts they would never know..... I'd certainly rather live normally for a couple more years than have everyone know I achieved my fortune through the lottery!
 
gee3000 said:
I would start a OcUK 'spec me' thread titled:

"Spec me a new build, budget £84,451,320.60"
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You'd get several people telling you to split the budget 4 ways, and buy a pc now for £21,112,830.15. And then upgrade again in 6 month times, Otherwise you're just going to end up with outdated hardware
 
taximike said:
I think I could hide an £87 mil win. I'd just start a small business and let it build up - then when I started living lavishly I'd say it was the business doing well. I'd be able to unfairly expand due to super cashflow but unless my friends started going through my accounts they would never know..... I'd certainly rather live normally for a couple more years than have everyone know I achieved my fortune through the lottery!
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I'm absolutely amazed I'm not the only one who has planned this particular plan of action for when I win the lottery.:D
 
I don't think you can hide it really, if you want to treat your friends it is gonna be obvious you are loaded. The problem is you don't know if people are your friend because you are rich or because they like you. I imagine it would be kind of lonely.

However it would be awesome and I could easily spend the money.

I wouldn't know what to do first. With his much money you don't need to be very sensible but I would bank half and pay half the interest into the main account just so if I went mad which will be likely I can't mess it up and end up broke like some idiots that get too much money too quickly.

Firstly, forget work, will probably phone them in a week or so when they are wondering why I haven't been at work for a while from a beach somewhere sunny.


Then I would jump in the car, drive to my mum and dads and give them a cheque for them and the grandparents etc. best to get it out the way. Get them sorted first just in case.

I would then drive to my mates like a madman, probably with my bro and head to the Ferrari garage. 1 each and then off to see a few more buddies.

Some kind of epic party would then occur as I would rent out a club or something and have free drinks and free entry.

I would then travel the world, go on all types of holidays, yachting, skiing, safari and once I had a good idea of the world buy a few houses in choice locations.

It would be great but money doesn't bring happiness. It makes it easier but at the end of the day you can generally do most of the things I would do if I was wealthy without the money, just with less luxury and less often. But I do really want a luxury yacht with missiles and a helicopter pad. :P
 
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meghatronic said:
I stand by my earlier statement of not telling anyone. Money changes people.
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You can't not tell the people you know, well, more accurately, you can't keep them from knowing.

If you quit your job to sit at home all day, they'd know you got money from somewhere, if you bought a nice car, clothes, house, anything, people can tell roughly how much money people have and any sudden change in spending would be very obvious.

The thing is to let people know, and if everyone changes, so be it, there are other people out there.

However its not a massive coincidence that rich people hang out with other rich people, its easier. When you're out at a club, having 87million in your pocket and a bunch of guys who work themselves to death, half will resent you if you don't pick up the tab, some will feel jealous, and unless you're a git, you'll feel bad if you don't pick up the tab. However if you always pick up the tab, then people start to expect that of you and treat you differently.

If you have 87 million in your back pocket and go to a club where your two best friends have 150million to their name, its a non issue.

What would I do?

Invest a LOT of it, move out of London to a very much bigger house with a LOT more space, one with enough rooms that I can have a large bedroom, large computer room/study, big room for a gym(as in, huge). Just a fairly decent fairly big but fairly cheap non city house.

Buy a couple decent places, probably apartments, in London, and New York and a holiday home on a fairly exclusive(IE no chavs to be seen, EVER) island somewhere with superb weather.

Then work hard, invest in lots of different business's so I have a lot of income, hire managers to take over each place once they are up and running.

Then live off savings while funneling most of the profits into charitable work. Build and maintain/pay a few staff to run some homeless shelters here and hopefully build some schools, roads, water treatment plant type places in Africa.
 
buckeejit said:
you're from Ireland mate so you understand the impact it could have on your or me for example. Paramilitaries would be all over you.
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More than likely, it would be pretty hard to stay in the country as someone somewhere would be bound to let it slip. Id imagine it would ge leaked though even if privacy was wanted =/

Khaaan! said:
I'm sure Camelot will persuade you to go public, after all it's marketing for them and you'd end up spending more money I'd imagine too from hiring lawyers / protection and whatnot just to keep people from the public off your back.

Privacy > short term fame!
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Not a chance id go public, that woman from here that won 76 million i think it was has apparently turned into a recluse and moved to England. She was having a night out and got a lucky dip, someone else was checking her ticket in a bar and told her it was her that won. No real chance of keeping it quiet after that.
 
Going to go against the grain and quite safely say I most likely wouldn't give any to charities, nor would I be bullied into doing so.


Selfish, yes. But that sort of money isn't something you come into everyday and I'd rather help out friends and family so I can see where its going and see it benefitting them. Rather than ploughing it into a charity and having no idea where the money is going!


If I won that amount I'd do the following in no particular order

I'd buy each of my immediate family members and closest friends a house each, 500k limit on each one. If any of them go "is that it" then they can get stuffed and they won't get a house :)

Same as I'd buy each of them a car they truely want (But they'd have to run it)

I'd build myself a massive photography studio and properly setup a photography business, no expenses spared.

Sort myself out a house here, one in the bahamas, and a couple of dream cars.

I wouldn't quit work, I'd actively keep myself doing something, I'd be so bloody bored otherwise!

Take myself and a couple of close friends travelling.

I'd finance my Sister her own large horse stables/yard

Finance my best friend her own hair salon

I'd spend a lot of time on race tracks getting adrenaline rushes from fast cars

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Yeh I'd have a lot of luxaries (who the hell wouldn't? :p) but at the same time get the photography business setup so I can live off a decent income without touching the 87mil unless I'm investing it in something that can make more money. :)


Well...that's the idea anyway :p
 
I think you could hide the winnings quite easily BUT it would require someone with enormous amounts of patience - a few years.

You could help successful small businesses fund rapid expansion and in return get x% back no?

Then there's investing in ideas Dragon's Den style, maybe contacting Universities to see what new stuff top students are coming up with and helping them financially in return for a profit % for when their ideas go into production.

Or are these silly ideas :p

I'd just want to go freelance with my photos and travel to third world countries to get pictures that the media will pay for and then make contacts and do business that way!
 
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Well....
Sort my self out a few houses here and abroad.....
Sort out others with a house.....Bank the rest then with the first few months interest
Buy a Audi R8 Spyder :) and my dad a Ferrari Dino (may have to dip into account) and get my mum a smart car or something :p
Then i would get myself a computer lol,Box at COMS,Box at Wembley.......
Then with the rest i would start a syndicate in Lloyds (Google if you dont know) and make myself CEO then simply use the money from that and the interest on 10-20m to pay for the stuff i want....
 
Well i'd phone up the SLC and tell them to **** my ****.
I'd also stop trying to sell my kidney to pay me through a bit of uni. :D

No doubt i'd buy a house, car, pay my parents mortgage off etc. Probably buy my dad a car that works.
Take my freinds on an epic holiday.
Oh and yeah, go to america, buy a car, drive top speed through the nevada desert and go nuts in vegas.

Don't think I'd be in a rush to go speding, more to get my current affairs in order and move the hell out of my parents house before I throttle one of them.
 
I'd never give money to charities, theres a VERY select few I think do decent work, but most massive charities just eat up all the money on wages for a top CEO type to run it and running costs that are embarassing, just look at the percentage of money raised by the London Marathon that actually goes to charity and the absolute mint the runners make off a "charity" event, its sickening.

I would want to set up my own charity, but doing things that don't harm 3rd world countries as SO many charities do.

SO many of the donations of equipment are short term, like mosquito nets but it puts local makers out of business, 2 years later all the nets are broken and the people who used to fix them are long gone. The western based charities do this quick dine and dash thing that makes no difference, or even makes the situation worse in the long run. However thats what our charities are, a way to very cheaply and with zero effort release any guilt over the situation in the rest of the world.

Frankly I feel bad that I have the life I do here and on the other side of the world life is bloody awful. If I suddenly got 87million I'd feel even worse about it and I'd actually want to do what I could to help, properly.

I'd get a box at Arsenal, but not at Wembley, most of the games there have been terrible, well I guess I might get a half dozen just to sell to massive companies and make a huge profit on them and plough that money into something good.

EDIT:- I'd also go to medical school, but in the states, Harvard is too ruddy cold though close to New York, I'd probably go somewhere west coast and Ivy league.
 
I'd buy each of my immediate family members and closest friends a house each, 500k limit on each one. If any of them go "is that it" then they can get stuffed and they won't get a house
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It would probably ruin them financially, they would have to sell it immediately :p
 
I would live exactly the same way that i do know except i would have a better car and a bigger home,i would still game for hours on end and continue my fitness training as always as money cant buy your health,i would make sure all my family and close friends are sorted,some charities also.
 
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