If you won the New York State lottery or Mega Millions, can you remain anonymous? You think it would be a simple "Yes or No" answer...It's not but here is what we have.
Have you seen the brand new New York State Lottery Powerball commercial? If you did, you may have noticed towards the end the shout out to Utica! If you've ever been downtown at the Triangle Coffee Shop, you will definitely recognize it in this advertisement.
If you scratched off a winning lottery ticket worth $5 million dollars what would you do? See a lawyer? An investment counselor? A tax adviser? Sure, but how long would you wait to cash it in? The New York State Lottery has announced that a Camillus man, Andy Ashkar, scratched off a $5 million dollar winner in 2006 and waited 6 years to cash in. Why the hold up you may ask?
Be on the lookout for another one of those ubiquitous spam e-mails, this one closer to home than some far off corner of Africa or Asia. According to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli
The scam tells consumers they won hundreds of thousands of dollars from a USA Mega lottery drawing in August. A company using the name Alpha Financial Services of Canada in Nova Scotia tells the would-be vict