Friday 29 June 2007

UK Lottery, EuroMillions Lottery and now: A World Lottery Draw

A while back I was taking some euromillions playslips to our local newsagent and the daily news headline grabbed my attention: "Camelot proposes first ever World Lotto" or something along those lines.

This is part of their bid to keep the Lottery License and they say they already have interest from 48 states or countries and that it will have jackpots far outstripping those of the EuroMillions.

EuroMillions Lotto, launched 3 years ago and now operating in 9 countries (the biggest lottery game in the world to date), has generated Euro Millions Jackpots to a massive £125 million.

Click here for more on the world lotto.

But to call it a world lotto is a cheek, 48 of 192 countries is not a world lotto.

What we offer: play euro millions lottery online is closer to a world lotto as anyone who can access this site can play!!!

Thursday 28 June 2007

Not Powerball, rather play Euro millions lottery

Do you agree or disagree?

My reasons:

1. Odds

Powerball jackpot odds are 1 in 146,107,962, whilst the euro millions lottery odds are 1 in 76,275,360. That is to say you are almost twice as likely to win the euromillions.

2. Prize structure

Euro millions lotto has 3 more prize levels and the payouts on these are based on percentage of prize fund, whilst Powerball are fixed prizes. Lowest prize for matching the Powerball is $3, whislt in the euro lottery the lowest level prize is on average around £7 that is to say around $14.

3. Euromillions is tax free

and Powerball is not. Take a look at this week's euro millions lottery draw and will see that if on Friday night your numbers come up then you are banking roughly $34,037,309.00. Whilst yesterday's Powerball jackpot of $103 millions was won. However the cash value is a lot less, looking at past winners for near the same amount and the win becomes $46 odd million. But that is not what you are banking, you still have to cough up Federal and State Income tax so you could end up with around half the cash sum in your pocket.

So it's $34 mill if you go with the euro millions lottery but only $23 mill if you play Powerball and your odds are twice as bad playing it!

So why do our customers keep playing Powerball? Looking at our customer purchases yesterday, there were TRIPLE the sales for Powerball compared to Euromillions.

Are we really all that greedy?

Wednesday 27 June 2007

Tuesday 26 June 2007

Why "The euro millions lottery aka euromillions"...

....and not the other way round?

Yes the official name of this pan-European lottery is "Euromillions", however for a long time now Google would always auto correct and ask if you meant your search term to be "euro millions"!!!

And thus this is the name of my blog! Although that said, today I stuck in the search term: 'euromillions lottery', and was hoping to be prompted again for a 3 word search: euro millions lottery. But not anymore, does this mean my blog is out of date? Oh well, I still found it amusing.

So if you can not use the above link to buy euro millions lottery tickets, then click on this link: play euromillions online

Will post the other official sites shortly!

go well
Jason

Monday 25 June 2007

Euro millions lottery scams

Whilst having breakfast this morning, watched a segment on BBC news, which reported on the sudden increase in postal letter scams. In it the guy in question had replied to one and shortly after was receiving up to 30 such letters a day. To see more: Mail scams increase

Almost everyday I am asked by online customers to verifiy that the snailmail/email they received is genuine or not, such as the one below:

FROM: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BIG BIG LOTTO.
7 Knightsbridge
London
SW1X 7XS
United Kingdom.
REF. NUMBER: EM/895/UK/07.
WINNING NOTIFICATION: We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Euro Millions International Lottery Programme held on the 19/01/2007 by the Big Big Lotto International Online Services. As part of the annual promotional programme by the Big Big Lotto International. The weekly competition was drawn along with over Twenty million individual and company email addresses online.
Your EMAIL address attached to ticket number 101777948 drew FIVE LUCKY NUMBERS ( 05-13-27-33-42) and one of the TWO LUCKY STAR NUMBER (02-05). As your EMAIL has matched the FIVE LUCKY NUMBERS and one of the TWO LUCKY STAR NUMBERS you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of €243,352.10 Euros, please check the link below for more information.
http://www.thebigbiglotto.com/online-lottery-euro-millions-lottery-results.php
However, due to mix up of some numbers and names we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some lottery scammers. You are to contact the Claims Officers via the two email addresses below with the information listed below for necessary processing of your claim.
Co-ordinator: Mrs. Ainslie Mason
Assistant Co-ordinators:
Mr Andrew Wallace
DIRECT PHONE: +44 7928516385
FAX: +44 2079 002 312
Email:euromillionsclaimsoffice@walla.com 1. FULL NAMES:
2. ADDRESS/STATE/COUNTRY:
3. SEX:
4. AGE:
5. MARITAL STATUS:
6. OCCUPATION:
7. E-MAIL ADDRESS:
8. FAX AND TELEPHONE NUMBER:
9. MOBILE NUMBER
10.LUCKY MAIN NUMBER:
11.LUCKY STAR NUMBER:
12. REF NUMBER:
13. AMOUNT WON:
14. MODE OF PAYMENT.
A. BANK TRANSFER:
B. COME PERSONALLY TO UK TO RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE:
Please note that winners are also invited to our annual end of year dinner coming up on 24th February, 2007. This will be an all expense paid event and we should be given at least two weeks notice prior to the event should you wish to attend.
CONGRATULATIONS on behalf of the Staffs of THE BIG BIG LOTTO AND EURO MILLIONS INTERNATIONAL.
Message sent from the Desk of;
Mary Rowland (mrs)
Regional Director

So if you receive a euro millions lottery winning notification (or any other lotto) remember 2 things:

1. UNSOLICITED EMAIL IS SPAM - regardless of what the subject maybe. If you receieved a letter/email from somone you do not know/never heard of/did not request then it is spam. You receive an invitation for cheap Viagra and you bin the letter, why not do the same for euro millions lotto scam letters?

2. IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, THEN IT PROBABLY IS - remember that it is the player's responsibilty to check and claim winnings. Think back to the last raffle you saw where a ticket was drawn and no one claimed. Bet you they didn't stop the game to go find the person, it would either be left as unclaimed or put back in for another drawing. So if in doubt,do some research first, for example this is from the T&Cs of the UK national lottery:
5) After a Ticket has been issued the Player will be responsible for the safe custody and condition of that Ticket. Subject to Rule 4(M) and except in the case of Subscriptions, failure to produce a Ticket on claiming a Prize will result in refusal to pay the prize.
(7) The Player is responsible for claiming the full value of the Prize to which he is entitled, subject to the provisions of Rule 4(D) above regarding the payment of Prize winnings in respect of Subscriptions.

You probably saw that our company name, www.thebigbiglotto.com, was also used in the above letter. As email is our main form of communication we offer our customers an "opt-in" clause when signing up, which means we use permission based marketing and thus any email you receive unsolicited, purporting to be from us, is fraudulent. We will only contact you if you ask us to!

So bin it!!! Else you go on the fraudsters sucker list and then you will keep getting these lottery scams etc

Saturday 23 June 2007

Not the Euro Millions Lottery Results I wanted...

...nor the rugger result. Not a great day! SA lost to the All Blacks in the Tri-Nations Rugby and then, get home to see that my numbers didn't even come close to winning the euromillions lotto jackpot.

Maybe next time :)

So to those looking for the latest Euro Millions Lottery Results, look no further. On my right menu is a nice graphic displaying the latest euromillions results. If you wish to see past results or would like the graphic yourself, then click the above link for both.

Friday 22 June 2007

Play Euro Millions Lottery

Whoo hoo,

Weekend is here and have the last of our tickets to take to the shop plus obviously my own.

Normally go for a random number generator when picking my euro millons lottery tickets but for some reason going to try my old numbers: 13, 21, 23, 33 & 47 with Lucky Stars 03 and 09.

Fingers crossed.

Click this link if you want to Play Euro Millons Lottery online although this will only be for next week's draw as cut off has come and gone.

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RSS is used as a standard to describe the syndication of Web content. That is to say, basically sharing content among different websites/blogs etc. When people use RSS the normally mean Rich Site Summary as Really Simple Syndication is usually referred to as RSS 2.0.

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Thursday 21 June 2007

Welcome to the Euro Millions Lottery blog

Hi Euromillions fans,

Welcome to my blog about the euro millions lottery! My name is Jason and I am the UK based lottery ticket agent for the website:

www.theBigBigLotto.com - Play lotto online

Here you can play some of the best known lotteries (Euromillions, UK National Lottery, Powerball etc) from around the world, from the comfort of your own home and with the added knowledge that if you need help, you can always contact me!

So for euro millions lottery results, news and information - hang out at my blog, click a few links, subscribe and check back regularly for all things euromillions related.

Or, why not hop over to our site and buy your euro millions lottery ticket online - got to be in it to win it!!!

Jason.

ps all comments welcome.