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Put most of it into animal sanctuaries and the rest into a yatch to sail round the med
you win the euro millions tonight: your shopping list.
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Caporegime
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You still need to go to their headquarters to claim it. They sit you down and you have a mandatory meeting with a financial advisor iirc. Maybe not mandatory but it's free as they have a duty of care to you. They have to provide you with one iirc so that if it all goes wrong there is no come back on them.
Regardless of what you do the only option would be to leave the country.
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Even if you changed your name and relocated people would want to know why you're fantastically wealthy.
If you weren't honest about your win you'd either have to be a complete recluse or live a huge lie.
Soldato
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Quit my job and set up an investment plan so that I earn a decent amount of interest and pay myself a salary.
Pay off any mortgages for family and make sure they can all live without having to work anymore, then buy a new property.
Once that's done, go and travel the whole world.
Pay off any mortgages for family and make sure they can all live without having to work anymore, then buy a new property.
Once that's done, go and travel the whole world.
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Some people obviously don't get this.
Even if I wanted to keep it secret I've got no chance because I have a very large family, loads of work colleagues and a multitude of acquaintances I liaise with at the weekends plus I run a large Facebook music site.
People would ask where me and the wife have gone and soon put two and two together.
You only stand a chance if you've got no family to speak of, no friends and you spend all day in the house posting on OCUK.
Soldato
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Can I have one of these please... but with the steering wheel on the other side
1. Have a house designed and built for us somewhere nice.
2. Have a couple of luxury cars.
3. Sort a few family members out, probably buy them houses and rent them to them for a small amount or nothing depends which family.
4. Seak advice regards investing the rest and having enough to live on plus holidays and such.
2. Have a couple of luxury cars.
3. Sort a few family members out, probably buy them houses and rent them to them for a small amount or nothing depends which family.
4. Seak advice regards investing the rest and having enough to live on plus holidays and such.
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A few houses spread across Germany, a house in Manchester, an S1000RR HP4, trailer to transport it. AMG-GTR for Germany, not sure what car I'd have over here. I'd look to change my job role to pretty much part time although that could be difficult. With my time off I'd live in Germany, but obviously go and see the world. House for parents in whatever country they choose (they're going on about Hungary/Lake Balaton recently)
Obvbiously, there'd be lots more, but these would be my initial thoughts.
Obvbiously, there'd be lots more, but these would be my initial thoughts.
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Couple of houses in the UK to rent out and have an income. House in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Russia, Canada, and Poland.
Then spend all my time exploring. I'd have to have a purpose.
Then spend all my time exploring. I'd have to have a purpose.
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You don't have to go anywhere near their headquarters if you don't want to.
They have a team of regional managers who if you win the jackpot will come to your house or anywhere else you want to meet them.
Also if you request it they will bring with them the financial advisors or anyone else you need to see. The first thing they advise people to do is if they want to remain annon is to open a new bank account and they have banks like coutts on speed dial just for that purpose.
Be careful on that yatch, there are some large powerful yachts
cruising the Med, piloted by nutters, they give way to no one.
I guess it depends where you live/what you do for a living etc.. even then there is the possibility of just saying you did well with bitcoins/crypto etc.. still essentially getting lucky to a large extent but people will feel less entitled and/or jealous if the perception is that you 'earned' your riches in some way.
Move to London you're no longer fantastically wealthy you just blend in.
I know people with millions in the bank who still work down there.
To the average person there's very little differnce between the outward appearance of someone pulling down nice 6 figures and somone with hundreds of millions in the bank
Caporegime
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Number 3 is a classic mistake made by those who have won in the past. It ruined them.
They will talk to each other. Find out some are living in the house for free whilst others pay.
Bitterness kicks in, resentment. Only a matter of time they turn on you as they think what a pleb he had £160 mill yet makes me pay rent. When my cousin does nothing but smoke weed all-day with no rent.
Also once you pay for a house they expect you to pay for other things too.
It all just snowballs from there.
Previous stories about winners shows family turn and even sue the winner. Saying they never got there fair share. Or that you gave them money initially then turned the tap off.
Basically you will end up with them turning against you.
Anything you try and do has huge potential to backfire on you.
I'd never tell friends or family when or how much I won, something would obviously be up and they'd know I'd have won something, after I buy what I wanted. But that doesn't mean they need to know exactly. Right now; how many of them know your current bank balance? Why does that suddenly change if you have multi-millions in there? I wouldn't even tell them for about 6 months anyway, and if they asked I'd say it's a decent ammount, but I'm not saying anything for securities sake. Would have things ticking over in the background that they didn't need to know about either straight after winning, such as ordering new cars and going forward with a purchase of a bigger house. As long as it's a long enough time to avoid being plastered all over the Daily Mail as a lottery winner would be fine by me, I doubt they'd do an article on a suspected lottery winner who won an unknown ammount possibly up to 6 months ago.