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 — neighbours, old high school friends, con artists, criminals. New Hampshire lottery rules require the winner’s name, town and amount won be available for public information, in accordance with open-records laws. And there are numerous examples of people who’ve tried to swindle lottery winners out of their newly acquired cash — or take the money by force. “He said, ‘I’ll give you my bank card.’ “ Abraham Shakespeare won a $30 million lottery prize in 2006.

Source: thestar February 06, 2018 19:30 UTC