Money for Nothing: What Happens to Lottery Winners Who Get the Lottery Results They Want

Have you ever wondered what you'd do if you were a lottery winner or thought to yourself "If I won the lottery, I'd...." ? What if your ticket finally hit those magic five - or six - numbers that resulted in a huge payout?

Recently, I was able to interview Edward Ugel, author of Money for Nothing and I'll get that interview up here as quickly as possible. Ugel was someone who worked for "The Firm" a company that knew exactly what to do with lottery winners and how to make money from them. Read this book and you may never look at those lottery tickets the same way again!

Even if you do decide to keep buying lottery tickets, you'll find yourself wiser about what could happen - if and when - you become an actual lottery winner. Not surprisingly, the money you get may not be paid out the way you assume. Read this book and wise up, at the very least. It could be one of the smartest things you do, other than steering clear of the lottery completely.

So who is Edward Ugel and how did his life connect so strongly to lottery winners?

For starters, he is a man who worked for "The Firm", a company who gave cash payments to lottery winners who (not surprisingly) needed those payments all too often - even after winning the lottery.

Lottery winners are often so focused on the goal (winning, of course) that they don't understand what happens if they do win. This made it easy for people like Edward Ugel - and others - to profit from their ignorance. Before you rush to judgment, I suggest you read the book first because Mr Ugel is just as hard on himself as any reader could ever be.

That was what made the book so fascinating to me as well as the way Ugel interspersed his own life story with characterizations of actual lottery winners. It didn't take long to discover that Edward Ugel wasn't so different from those he fleeced. Lottery winners gambled and so did Edward - and not just when it came to figuring out how much to pay those unfortunate souls who needed money, getting in financial trouble or wanting cash payouts even after hitting the jackpot.