Do you ever wonder what REALLY happens to the lottery income? Where DOES the money go?
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Any lottery website will tell you exactly the percentage of where the winnings go. For example, the MegaMillions, "approximately" 35% goes to the government, 50% goes back to the players, and 5% goes to the retailers who sell tickets. For more information go to http://www.megamillions.com/ or do a search for any local lottery and you should easily be able to find something.
96359
It seems you now have some money (Perhaps you won the lottery or a relative left you some money) it is very wise to make more money with the money you know have (This is harder than it seems) It all depends on your age, your debts, the amount you have and of course the risks you want to take or the money you want to make. Drop me a line if you need more help.
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Did you buy a lottery ticket?\nIf not this is a scam. I get about five per day.\nJust delete it and ignore it..\n\nwww.fraudaid.com/ScamSpam/Lottery/lottery_scam_names.htm www.scambuster419.co.uk/lottery.htm\nantivirus.about.com/cs/hoaxes/p/lottery.htm\nwww.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/lotterywin.htm
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Lotterys work like this:\n1)10,000 people pay 1 dollar/euro/pound/yen....etc\nThe lottery company now has 10,000\n\n2) the lottery company holds a draw and gives out 7,000 in winnings (and keeps the profit 3,000)\n\nScams work like this:\n-1)nobody pays money (there is no money to win)\n\n0)a scammer sends out 10,000 spam emails to tell people they have won a lottery they havn't entered.(they pretend they work for real lottery websites)\n\n2)The Scammer asks for your Personal details (be prepared! your inbox is going to be full of emails asking for you personally...and dont get me started on what they are gonna do with your Bank details!)\n\n3)The scammer tells you that you have to pay fees before you can accept the "winnings" (and NO,you cant pay out of the winnings! they dont exist!....silly maga)\n\n4)The scammer manages to con 3 people out of 1000 and gives all his profits to a charity for orphaned goats (he dosn't really...he keeps it ;) )\n\n5)Your inbox gets more mails than help@microsoft.com\nEverything from "You have won anotther sooperdooperlottry" to    "CHAN U B A NEXT OF KIN" to "Please join our company,cash our checks,send us the money until your bank realises you are laundering money for us?)\n\nThe moral of the story is...If it sounds too good to be true... It probably is
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I've never heard anyone really winning. In most cases, internet lotteries are fraudulent websites that try to get your personal information and might even ask you for your credit card number or bank account number so that they can give you money! Don't fall for these. How can you win a lottery if you haven't bought a ticket? No company has too much money to give away like this.
902493
I hope I win the lotto, I have always wondered what it would be like to be rich.  Imagine that, if I were to really win.  Too bad that will never happen.
172286
Call the bank it's drawn on and find out if it is a legitimate check and whether funds are available.  If you didn't play the lottery, though, most likely you didn't win, and I'd consider it a scam until you find out for certain whether the check is legitimate and has funds backing it.
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Its a scam...and it is catching a lot of people...\nFor a write up on it go to:\nhttp://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1746&highlight=%22united+lotto%22\n.\n.\n.\n.\nLotterys work like this:\n1)10,000 people pay 1 dollar/euro/pound/yen....etc\nThe lottery company now has 10,000\n\n2) the lottery company holds a draw and gives out 7,000 in winnings (and keeps the profit 3,000)\n\nScams work like this:\n-1)nobody pays money (there is no money to win)\n\n0)a scammer sends out 10,000 spam emails to tell people they have won a lottery they havn't entered.(they pretend they work for real lottery websites)\n\n2)The Scammer asks for your Personal details (be prepared! your inbox is going to be full of emails asking for you personally...and dont get me started on what they are gonna do with your Bank details!)\n\n3)The scammer tells you that you have to pay fees before you can accept the "winnings" (and NO,you cant pay out of the winnings! they dont exist!....silly maga)\n\n4)The scammer manages to con 3 people out of 1000 and gives all his profits to a charity for orphaned goats (he dosn't really...he keeps it ;) )\n\n5)Your inbox gets more mails than help@microsoft.com\nEverything from "You have won anotther sooperdooperlottry" to    "CHAN U B A NEXT OF KIN" to "Please join our company,cash our checks,send us the money until your bank realises you are laundering money for us?)\n\nThe moral of the story is...If it sounds too good to be true... It probably is\n..\n.\n.\n.\nThe checks/money orders will be fake....very good fakes.\nYou can hand them to a 25yr old bank teller and they wont know the difference.\nThe checks go in your account.\nYour bank "HONOURS" the checks\nYou send the money to the scammer in Nigeria\nThe bank sends the check back to the issuing bank (can take up to 6 months)\nThe Issueing bank refuses to "CLEAR" the check.\nYour bank says"Hey...you put in a fake check ....wheres the money?"\nYou say" I sent it to [insert scammers name here] by western union money transfer(untracable) to that lovely man/woman/both in Nigeria"\nThe bank says"??? you robbed your own bank???"\nYou plead Ignorance..."Im innocent" etc\nThey say "But YOU put the check in our bank...." and you do jail time for bank fraud\n\n"419" scammers....dont ya love 'em\nwww.fraudwatchers.org
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Uhm. Open a bank account?? *shrugs*\n\nI'm sorta thinking life wouldn't change.......or maybe I just wouldn't allow life to change. I'd probably donate it to the "Won a kazillion dollars in the lottery and don't know what to do with it" Organization that would make sure it got to the people in need in this world that rightfully deserve it. And then I'd go call the one person I enjoy being around more than any other and ask him if would like to go to a baseball game. yeah.....that's "now what." :)
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More than likely not.  Did you enter into any lottery?  It's a scam, stay away from it.
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Scam..\nDo you really think there is a method to picking winning lottery numbers?\nThink about it.
661587
Probably is. Just like lottery winnings are. They aren't earned income, but they're income.
585836
I have never been rich, but I know it won't make you happy. Lottery winners, once the initial excitement wears off,  are some of the unhappiest people around. Once your basic needs are met, the rest is not going to make your happier.
804697
It's a scam.  Pay no attention to it.\nIf you didn't enter a contest or buy a lottery ticket, how do you expect to win it?
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Dont we all... thats why so many people buy lotto tickets. \nWork hard and keep wishing is all I can tell you. If there is a secret to success I havn't found it yet.
44248
I wish i could help you but when you find out let me know cause this is something that i was just trying to figure out believe it or not. so please forward the answer when you get it!?!?!?! I have money going in there and i dont know what I want to do with it????? I AM SO CONFUSED!
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I would be happy to win the lottery.  The problem with inheriting money is who died?\nI think what you mean with your question is does money buy happiness.  And the answer to that is no, of course not.  But it helps when you don't have to worry about money and you can focus on following your bliss.