Lottery scams
There are a lot of swindlers on the web, posing as lotteries. We have selected those, what made a lot of noise last year:
- GROWTH.
- Lottoage.
All-Russian official lottery ROSTLOTO
She does not have an official website. She changes them regularly, to mislead. People are trying to prove: this lottery is not a scam. Everything is official here.
JSC "ROSTLOTO" allegedly issued a license to conduct draws. There is a Moscow address, where is the lottery registered. But also the license, and registration is fake. There is only one legal lottery organizer in Russia - JSC TC "Center" (The "chair").
How does ROSTLOTO breed
Typically, the victim receives a message inviting them to the anniversary draw. You don't need to buy a ticket. It is given for free.
A scammer doesn't just generate winnings. He shows a tape of the rally and pretends, that he goes online. Upon completion, the victim receives a large prize - ₽ 150,000-200,000.
ROSTLOTO offers to choose one of three ways to withdraw your winnings:
- on the map,
- by mail,
- in the office.
SMARTGUIDE comment: if you choose the last option, the fraudster will not demand to pay a commission. But he is supposedly temporarily unavailable. Withdrawal by mail has two drawbacks. First of all, money goes for several weeks. Secondly, have to pay a commission. She reaches 7-8 % of the winnings. It's about RUB 1500-2000.
Most of those, who believed, that the ROSTLOTO draw brought them money, choose transfer to card. It costs less. You have to pay only 2 % on the size of the win. But after that, the dialogue with the lottery representatives ends.. The "winner" is left with nothing.
SMARTGUIDE comment: reviews of real people about ROSTLOTO warn about deception. More and more every day. Therefore, in the near future, the lottery will change its name and continue to breed under a different name..
Lottoage
You don't need to pay anything. Everything, what is needed, - become part of a syndicate. So, who agrees, after a while they say: union, to which he joined, won. The size of the share due to him is several tens of thousands of dollars.
But there is a problem. To collect your winnings, you need to pay a 10% commission. It turns out, the syndicate organizer doesn't trust people. He demands money in advance, after which he promises to list the winnings. As a result, a person is bred for thousands of euros.
SMARTGUIDE comment: in this scheme "Lottoage" - background. The fraudster is not acting on behalf of the lottery, but as a private person, organized by the union. This is a non-standard approach for lottery scams.
What is Lottoage company
She claims, what works with 2006 of the year. But in fact - since 2018. At first there were many positive reviews about her.. However, they all turned out to be ordered. Moreover, most of them were posted in one day..
SMARTGUIDE pays attention: classic lottery scams ask to pay a small commission. The amount rarely exceeds ₽ 2000-3000
The Lottoage scammer acts differently. He pretends to be company, which has access to foreign lotteries. So people think, that he has big wins.
How to increase your chances of winning?
There is no technique, which is guaranteed to lead to winning the lottery, since the draw is always based on chance. However, you can take advice from experienced players to increase your chance of winning.:
- one of the most popular winning strategies is to constantly bet on the same combination;
- the most obvious and effective advice: more tickets - more likely to win a large amount in the lottery, the main thing is not to go beyond your budget;
- choosing numbers is not recommended, going sequentially - the probability of such combinations is extremely low;
- it is better to choose one lottery and participate in it regularly, than trying to win several;
- do not mark only even or only odd numbers on the ticket;
- according to statistics, the sum of the numbers of winning combinations in most cases falls within the range 104-176.
Is it realistic to win the lottery?
Agree, sometimes you really want to win a large amount of money. So big, to last for the rest of your life, so that you can easily leave work and do what you love. We even love to dream, how would we manage the money, whether we have a million dollars or euros. We know, what would we buy first, in the second, where we would move to live and how much we still have left.
Dreaming is not harmful, many will say! But there are lucky ones, others will say. And they will be right! Really, there are such. You've probably heard many stories, how in one day a man got rich thanks to the lottery, and life turned into a fairy tale. Others won too, but they were blown away, and they misused their money and lost everything as a result.
No, if i'm lucky to win a lot of money, I will definitely dispose of them, as it should and most likely I will even help other people. Think so too? Why are some people lucky, others don't? And is it all about luck? This is what I want to reflect on.
Surely each of us played the lottery at least once in our life. And some even won a small amount, but then they bought tickets again with this money and, as a result, lost. It was the same, remember?
Oh, this is excitement! It was worth stopping in time, and we would be in the black. maybe, some of you managed to win an amount several tens of times higher than the ticket price and the money remained with you. But still this is not the money, who want to win, agree. I want to solve my financial issue in one go.
I heard about such cases, when someone bought a ticket, but did not guess the number myself, but asked a stranger to do it. As a result, the ticket won unexpectedly, and the lucky ticket holder received a very valuable prize, cost per car. Not bad, Yes? There are such people, who can guess the cherished numbers on someone else's ticket, but never for his. This is a little offensive.