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All she has to do to collect a $560 million lotto jackpot is make her name public. She refuses.
The winning numbers triple-checked and the lottery ticket signed, the New Hampshire woman knew her life was about to change in a very positive way - except for one petrifying thing. As the winner of last month's $560 million Powerball, she would soon be the world's newest owner of a nine-digit bank account. But because of lottery rules, everyone in the world would know about it - neighbors, old high school friends, con artists, criminals.
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Can't you just get the money, change your name, and move somewhere else? Then you can buy any politicians/media personalities/whoever it takes to say that there was a mistake with the name, and that the real name is (whoever you hate). Then come back home and say you just were away on vacation.
If you have half a million bucks there's a lot of very simple creative solutions to this problem.
Edit: I meant half a billion. Looks like my math skills are getting down to Dr. Evil's level