My friend is getting all excited because his wife's father contacted them saying he hit the Powerball jackpot yesterday. I've told him repeatedly not to get too excited because the news outlets and the Powerball officials and website have reported that there were no winners of the jackpot in yesterday's drawing. He said he already had turned in his ticket and has all of his paperwork and has spoken to the media and all that. He said that his father-in-law will get the money in 20 days, etc. Is there a chance that there could be some mistake and that his father-in-law actually has the winning ticket? I hate to have him get his hopes all up and then a big let down happens. I mean, I'm just not believing it.
If you win the jackpot and you're smart, you'll take some time to arrange things before you announce it. Maybe he won an earlier game.
Isn't there an anonymity option in Texas? Ur friends dad should have opened a blind trust. You never want your name out there with that kind of money.
Tell him to write you guys into the will as the only caretakers of the money and then host a family dinner. We meet up, talk business, and you end up rich.
Wouldn't it be more simple if he included it in his original post? I hate to make things complicated, but damn.
powerball officials know immediately if someone has a winning ticket, they just don't know who has it. if they announced that nobody won then there's no winning ticket. simple as that.
There was NO Powerball jackpot winner on Wednesday 02/27: http://www.startribune.com/nation/16069407.html
That's what I told him but he does not believe me. He says that the father in law already has turned over the ticket, already has his certification papers, already has had some news conferences, already taken pictures with the big poster check, etc. He has said he will receive his money in 20 days. Like I said, I don't believe it and I am trying to convince him because he is already talking about quitting his job and buying some really expensive stuff. I just don't want him to do anything too drastic like that and be stuck between a rock and a hard place. I mean if it is somehow true, then good for him because he has been through a lot throughout his life and probably deserves a break but I just don't see it happening. The only thing I can really think of is his father in law claimed a winning ticket from a previous lottery and not this past Wednesday but I've done some research and I haven't found anything about an unclaimed $150 million dollar prize.
There were some $200,000 winners - was he one of those? As the article I linked to mentions, NOBODY won the big prize Wednesday. Forward that to your friend.
Thing is I told him the Powerball website and all the news outlets are showing no winners for the jackpot this past Wednesday. He has already stated that the father-in-law is supposed to be getting $70 million after taxes not a couple hundred thousand. He thinks the news outlets and Powerball website have not been updated and are wrong. I even looked at all Kansas City news outlets and I have not seen evidence of a winner, interview, or anything of that instance. Like I said, maybe there was an unclaimed $150 million prize out there in Powerball or some other type of lottery but my research has turned up nothing. I just feel bad for him if it happens to be untrue because he is making all these grand plans already.
Unfortunately, your friend's father-in-law is wrong in thinking he won the big jackpot. They are selling tickets for Saturday's Powerball drawing and folks buying those tickets are doing so KNOWING that nobody won on Wednesday, which increases the Saturday jackpot. If someone truly won and tickets are being sold based on nobody winning - well that's just a massive class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
Exactly! The only other thing I can think of is winning another lottery or finally revealing a past Powerball winning ticket but as I have stated, my research has turned up nothing on any prize being unclaimed that is at $150 million or any other prize worth that much.
A friend of mine once played a joke on someone where I think they bought a ticket using the numbers of the previous winning ticket. They slipped that ticket into the guy's wallet (he had not checked his ticket yet) and he totally bought into it and thought he had won (he did not notice the date was 1 day later).
