The Powerball jackpot is up to $930 million ahead of its drawing scheduled on Wednesday night — but if someone hits the winning numbers, they might want to keep their luck under wraps.
Massachusetts isn’t one of the at least nine states that allows lottery winners to remain anonymous, but it can still happen.
Massachusetts allows lottery winners to create a trust. This lets a person represent the winner as a trustee and turn in the winning ticket, receive the check, then deposit it into a bank account set up for the winner.
”One of the most frequent pieces of advice new lottery winners get from others is to try as hard as possible to remain anonymous,” Baker Law Group’s website states.
“If your name and photograph is published, there’s a strong chance you could find yourself quickly harassed with calls and requests for money.”
”The longer you leave the ticket unsigned, the more you risk someone taking it and claiming it for themselves,” the website states. “If you must sign it before the trust is created, sign it small so you can leave space to add trustees and the name of the trust you’ll establish.”
But the winners still don’t remain completely anonymous.
Lottery spokesman Christian Teja previously told The Republican that the secrecy only involves the public. All members of a trust are required to be identified by the lottery for its internal records.
The Powerball drawing will be held at 10:59 p.m. on Wednesday and tickets cost $2 each.
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