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All About Lottery Scams
All About Lottery Scams
What You Need To Know About Lottery Scams
With the success of lotteries around the world has come a swarm of lottery scams. Most lottery scams consist of the same basic components. First, they get your name and e-mail address, home address, or phone number. Second, they write you a scam e-mail or letter pretending to be a bank, a lawyer, or a company. After you contact the scammers, they try to get your personal information and then may steal your identity. After they do this, they could use your credit cards, take out loans in your name, commit crimes under your name, and even get jobs using your name. Don’t fall into this trap! Only play official lotteries run by governments and don’t give out your personal information
Some Examples of Lottery Scams
There have been huge lottery scams in the UK, Spain, and almost everywhere. For example, in 2004 a lottery scam was enacted in Tennessee and other US States. This scam affected several US residents and costs residents thousands of dollars. There were lottery scam victims in New Mexico lottery, Tennessee lottery and Mississippi lottery. Basically the scam sent out fake letters to potential victims calling their organization the ‘Universal Lotto Promotions. They told the individuals that they had won $50,000 but they have to pay what they call a clearance fee to get their prize and that the fee would be deducted from the prize. After individuals paid the fee they received a counterfeit check and realized they had been scammed.
How To Identify a Lottery Scam
If you receive a letter saying you’ve won the lottery and you want to know if it’s a scam, here are some things to consider. You know the letter is a scam if you did not buy a lottery ticket, you do not live in the lottery country, you did not register your name or information before you were allowed to buy a ticket on an online lottery web site, or you never heard of the lottery name. There are also statements that can help to identify a letter as a scam such as, ‘All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names from Australia, New Zealand, America…’, ‘Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice…’, ‘This lottery was promoted and sponsored by …Ted Turner, Jesse Jackson, Bill Gates, etc.’
-An important note. No legitimate lottery web site exists without legitimate rules posted which can be verified on official state websites.
Buying Lottery Tickets
Since most states do not allow the sale of online lottery tickets you will have to purchase lotto tickets at the nearest lottery retailer. European lotteries have allowed players to buy lottery tickets online for years and the move has been highly successful. Players in Europe can log in to a lotto website and make an online lottery purchase from the privacy and comfort of their own home. Most lottery experts believe that the sale of online lottery tickets is an idea whose time has come.
Cleveland Has Been Named the Lottery Capital of Ohio
Cleveland Has Been Named the Lottery Capital of Ohio
Known by many as the Rock ‘n’ Roll Capital of the world, Cleveland, Ohio has now been dubbed the Lottery Capital of Ohio by the online lottery information site LuckyLotto. This comes as no surprise to Jeff Geffert of Mentor. “I could see how this could be true,” says Geffert, an avid lottery player. “Cleveland is a dying city with a ton of blue collar people that play the lottery everyday in hopes of striking it rich and improving their plight.”
LuckyLotto, an online lottery website specializing in lottery news and information conducted a study of the lottery in Ohio that yielded some surprising results. LuckyLotto reported that Cleveland, in Northeastern Ohio, has more lottery terminals per capita than any other city in Ohio.
According to the official Ohio lottery website, Cleveland has 492 lottery terminals. That is 5.97 lottery terminals per square mile. And Cleveland residents are keeping these terminals busy. “It seems like we have been selling more tickets lately. Especially when gas goes down a couple cents, people seem to buy more lottery tickets,” says Matt Jones, cashier at the local Cleveland Speedway station.
While it may seem more likely that Columbus, Ohio’s capital, would have more lottery terminals, that is not the case. Columbus has only 2.45 lottery terminals per square mile. In fact, big cities Cincinnati, Dayton and Akron were all outperformed by Cleveland when it came to lottery terminals per capita.
With the current state of the national economy, many may be surprised to hear that the lottery is booming in Cleveland, a city that has long suffered from economic instability. Contrary to popular belief, a decline in the economy does not lead to a decline in lottery play. According to Ashley Martinez, a cashier at the Cleveland BP station, Cleveland ticket sales have been up lately. “I estimate that 1 in 3 customers buy a lottery ticket when they come into the store.”
The truth about the lottery is that someone always wins and people always hope that it will be them. When the economy struggles, people seem to have more hope that they will win the jackpot. As a result, a decline in the economy seems to lead to an increase in lottery play. Cleveland lottery players say they would welcome the sale of online lottery tickets. Players in an unfamiliar neighborhood would not have to wonder where to buy lottery tickets-they could use their cell phone to make an online lottery purchase!
No matter what the reasons for the immense popularity of the lottery in Cleveland, LuckyLotto is pleased to name Cleveland the “Lottery Capital of Ohio.”