Is het legaal om de loterij via internet te spelen??
De staatsloterijen en MUSL (de organisatie die Powerball runt) are all very firm in their assertion that playing the lottery in any manner over the Internet is illegal. We are not lawyers and can’t provide legal advice, but we are not so sure about their position. Their absolute certainty that it is illegal may have more to do with not wanting to lose control of the player interaction, en minder te maken hebben met een stevige juridische basis.
Wanneer we de legaliteit beoordelen, we look at what has actually happened in court cases. There have been people in the past who purchased a lottery ticket from an Internet Web site, won vervolgens de jackpot, and the lottery attempted to block them from receiving the jackpot. In each case, the winners took the lottery to court and won. They received their jackpot as if they walked into a store and purchased a ticket.
You must keep in mind that any type of Internet-based lottery service is not risk-free. From a legal standpoint, de diensten werken in mazen in de huidige wet, en het Amerikaanse Congres heeft stappen ondernomen om die mazen in de wet te verkleinen, particularly in trying to prevent banks and credit cards from allowing Internet payments for lottery services. But there is a much bigger threat when you use an Internet lottery service: opgelicht worden.
Door niet in een winkel te kopen, misschien doet u iets ergers dan uw geld weggooien: you may be helping to keep a scam operation running. Stay away from anything referring to a “syndicaat”. We are not aware of any site using that terminology that is not a scam. Also beware of sites that state “Verzekerd door ___” at the bottom. It is like saying “We kopen niet echt loten, maar vertrouw ons, je wordt betaald als je wint.” Have you ever heard of an insurance company paying out a $200 million Powerball jackpot? We haven’t.
We do allow some advertising on USA Mega for lottery services. We recommend that USA residents stay away from such services, and make your purchases in a store. The ads are directed at non-USA residents, die mogelijk niet de online loterijbeperkingen hebben die in de VS gelden.
