With Jackpot Powerball, which ran to $ 1.8 billion, or an estimated $ 826.4 million in cash, sent people to corner shops and petrol stations to buy tickets, previous winners share their hard lessons and advice for those who could be lucky.
Powerball Jackpot is now the second largest in American history and if no one wins on Saturday, the amount can rise higher.
However, Timothy Schultz, who won a lottery of $ 28 million in Iowa in 1999, warned people not to be affected by smooth speakers who simply claim the title. He recommended hiring a financial advisor with a hard -earned experience to support him.
“If I had a dime for anyone who was called a financial advisor and I wanted to help, I would have been a billionaire,” said The New York Times. Schultz now has a podcast “Lottery, Dreams and Fortune”, where he leads interviews with the winners of lottery.
Winners who lost all the money:
In his podcast, he also shared the story of William Post, who won a lottery of $ 16.2 million in Pennsylvania in 1988. From this amount, the posts, cars, cars and plane, and the money was gone during the year.
According to his obituarian in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2006, who quoted, the post of relatives were looking for some of the price of money, while his landlord and sometimes his girlfriends sue. Not only that his own brother tried to kill him.
“Everyone dreams of winning money, but no one realizes the nightmares that are based on wood or problems,” he said in 1993 that Washington Post said.
In the next incident, Bradley Hahn from Missouri won $ 10 million from a lottery of $ 40. From this money for the price he paid his debts. But then he bought Midnight Blue 2015 Corvette Stingray and 2016 Cadillac Srx. But both cars lost thousands of dollars almost immediately.
“I would probably finance them instead,” Hahn said, adding that his friends came to celebrate. “It got to the point where I like it,” Dude, I’m not a bank, “he said in an interview.
Nowadays, Hahn has learned to keep the circle of people around him.
He also remembers a warning, a friend who won $ 3 million and lost everything.
“Stay away from gambling. You’ve already won. Don’t risk it.”
In another case, Urooj Khan of Illinois received a cash price of $ 1 million from a scratch ticket in 2012, but a month later he was annoying with cyanide. Although the police were investigating his death as a murder, but there was never any arrest.
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