Nowadays there is a somewhat unusual event that opens a completely different international market, as there are sites on the web such as theLotter.com that allow thousands of users from different countries to buy tickets from North American lotteries which have aroused the interest of The users of these portals due to their accumulated millionaire prizes, such as the one currently in play, the Mega Millions drawing for 323 million dollars, and the Powerball for 261 million, totaling a total of 584 million dollars 34 times the prize Current baloto. (READ HERE: TRANSPARENCY OF BALOTO IN DOUBT)
Now lotteries are looking for international markets, and so do the American
While the conventional way to get a ticket is to ask an acquaintance or relative living in the United States to buy you a ticket, theLotter.com is the website that, with the authorization of the Oregon Lottery official commission, acquires the Real Mega Millions and Powerball tickets on behalf of its worldwide users including Colombia, opening up the possibility that a "non-American" citizen will officially win these huge lotteries.
Now, how does this service do not incur any lack in the laws of countries like Colombia or United States?
The official rules of American lotteries explicitly state that "the lottery winner does not have to be an American citizen or resident to be declared a winner" so theLotter's courier service is completely legal in the United States.
Paper tickets are stored in the State of Oregon, meaning that the ticket never leaves the territory, complying with the law of American lotteries that prohibits the export or import of lottery tickets.
"... the official tickets we buy never leave the State of Oregon, where they are purchased, but are stored in a 100% safe place so that, when there is a winner, we will take him there to claim the ticket and accompany him to Claim the prize ... ", concludes Eduardo Guillén, representative of theLotter.com for the Hispanic market.
So, when a user wins through theLotter, the company runs the expenses for the person to travel to Oregon to receive the ticket and is also assigned a lawyer who accompanies him to the lottery offices to claim the prize. (THIS MIGHT INTEREST YOU: COLJUEGOS MUST TAKE MEASURES IN CASE OF RAFFLES OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN ANTIOQUIA.)
The guarantee that every person who uses the service has a scanned copy of the ticket to which he has access within hours of the transaction.
As for Colombian law, theLotter.com representatives clarify that they do not make their own raffles or pay the prizes out of pocket, so they do not fall into the category of gambling or betting, offering a courier service as the Of FedEx, but exclusive for lottery ticket purchases.
It is in short, a novel product for which there is still no legislation.
