You would have to get a lawyer to claim it for you? I thought some states you did not have to make your name public. I should have such problems.
Even if your name wasn’t published, word would surely leak out as far as the identity of the local newly minted billionaire, or at least billion dollar plus lottery winner. If you want to be left alone, and not have to worry about scammers, robbery or kidnapping, then you do it by the book, your identity is legally protected, hidden behind several legal veils, a blind trust, then a corporation behind that. That’s what I’ve been told. The advice being given out on the local historically black college radio station is sound. Now, as far as how to handle the money once it’s held by the trust is another matter. You have quite the large sum of money by just about anyone’s standards, so I suspect protection and return of principal would be the primary concern, plus avoidance of generating additional tax liabilities. But, a rate of return to keep the trust ahead of inflation would be a good thing. Managed properly you could live quite well and never touch the principal.