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Lottery winners flee to Spain as the begging letters pour in | Mail Online

It seems the lucky couple have had to flee to spain because the beginning letters are flooding in, well what did they expect, when you enter a lottery there's a chance you could win that's why I always tick the no publicity box, even on the pools, sure it would make life just a tad easier, what do you do?

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I only do the lottery jaysay and like you I don't want publicity.

Stick it in the big crate under the bed mate if you win, tell not a soul, apart from me, I won't blab.

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In this day and age you can tick all the no publcity boxes you want, to keep something like that secret would be virtually impossible. I'd be going further than Spain :D

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Me too....and all the letters that are just addressed to 'The Weirs'........I would ask the post office to shred them.

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what about the stalkers largs will be full of them lol largs is a nice place which looks onto cumbrae in fact when i went last week i met somebody from accy lol

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I wouldnt want the publicity but like Dave says it would be hard to keep it quiet.

I would try my best though to do it.

If I won that amount i would give some to charity but not people with thier begging bowls.

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i think you can buy your own island for around 50 million in the tropics and still have plenty left over to get by .:D

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Probably get a Greek one for a bit less.:D

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hell you could probably buy greece for a fiver if your prepared to wait a few weeks :D:D

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Still got most of my Marbles.......Shut up Jay.:p:D

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Me thinks nobody would want to find you if you went to Burnley Dave:D:D:D:D

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:D:D:D:D:D you know me too well Beni:D

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I've been thinking what I'd about the begging letters if I won so much dosh, and after lots of consideration I decided I'd keep sending them:rolleyes::D:D

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If I'd won £161million, I'd employ someone to go through the begging letters, sorting them into 'scroungers' and 'possible genuine cases that need help'. Then I'd hire someone to quietly investigate those cases to see if they really are genuine.

With that sort of money, I really wouldn't mind sharing some of it with genuine worthy causes and I wouldn't mind spending a tiny fraction of it sorting out the worthy causes from the scroungers. It'd be like being on 'The Secret Millionare' on telly.

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Be prepared to take out a big bank loan;)

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With £161million in my account, I think a more likely scenario would be me lending the banks money. ;)

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don't lend any Greek Banks owt.:eek::D

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No chance mate. It'd be sound investments financing worthy causes for me. :)

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It would be cheaper to respond to those begging letters, by replying to them, & enclosing a card directing them to the nearest benifits office, then post it off without a stamp.
Retlaw.

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25 years ago when I lived in Hassy a guy a few doors down won £800,000 on Littlewoods, it was all over the LET at the time, he had to employ a bouncer to stand outside his front door and after a few days the postman stopped doorstep deliveries, they used to bring his mail in a van, that was for about 2 weeks until it tailed of, £161 million, ya you'd still need a bank loan:rolleyes:

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So would you guys keep it all to yourself and not help out any worthy causes at all?

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i would certainly aid worthy causes, but begging letters sure wouldn't be on my list.

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The way I see it, a person sends a begging letter for one of two reasons, they are either shameless scroungers or they have genuinely run out of options and had to swallow their pride.

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agree but a high percentage are the first option.

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Oh I agree completely, but with £161million, I could easily afford to employ someone to sort out the genuine cases from the scroungers.

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How would you know, take a look at just how convincing some of these scroungers are and Saints and Scroungers running on BBC1 at 11-45am each day, sure would open your eyes

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I'm with you on this one cashy, there are plenty of genuine good causes, Asthma UK, NOS, Cancer UK, The Christie, Age Concern (or what its called now, seeing I've just joined the club officially:D) and a local charity too, Stanley:D