Well, the first 48 hours after finding out that I have won would be;
> Deal with my shock and anxiety issues.
> Let two (and only two) members of my family know and swear them to secrecy. This is MY big announcement and there will be no stealing my thunder by telling everyone behind my back.
> One of those two (my BIL) has worked as a Financial Advisor/Broker for 30 years. I’d be talking to him to start getting my team together.
> Second day, go get a storage unit and start packing my valuables.
> Conversation with the Family.
Do not speak about this in public. Your friends will ask you about it. Please don’t identify yourself as a relative of a lottery winner in a public place. Any bad people nearby will be looking at your purse, following you out the door, maybe even following you home.
Do not ask me for money. I’ll be giving what I give, nothing more. I’m not buying anyone a new house, car or giving you money to start a business.
Do not ask me about my money. I don’t ask you about yours.
DO NOT DARE promise anyone else a fucking penny of my money. I’ll not only say NO to them in your presence, I’ll likely stop talking to you.
If you get a phone call about me, DO NOT admit that you know me or are related to me. That makes you a target. Don’t be stupid, tell them you don’t know me, then agree to take a message for me. If someone calls you and asks about me, say “I don’t know him” and HANG UP. People who really know me know how to contact me.
After claiming it;
> Well, the money won’t be in your account until the next day. Not like you claim it and they give you a pallet of cash.
> Change all of my financial account and email passwords to something absurdly complex. > When it is in my account, go buy a new vehicle. One with some space to haul stuff to my storage locked, and then to my new home, wherever that is.
> BREATHE
> Disappear off the face of the Earth. As an article I read yesterday said “new lottery winners are the biggest potential marks”. Every con man, swindler, thief, burglar and general shitty human being is going to want a piece of your money.