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From time to time, you may hear about online lottery offers that are actually scams. Whether it is via a message in your email inbox or on Facebook or other social media, most of the time you are going to be invited to participate in what seems to be a lottery of sorts. And of course, it is totally free to participate. Sounds too good to be true? Your instincts are right - those free lottery offers are scams ! Your chances of actually winning something are zero. You have no means to find out whether anyone won something at all. Often enough, those offers show images and stories of people who, allegedly, won a grand prize just last week. Those are, of course, fake. Nobody ever wins anything by participating in those schemes. So why do people run those lottery scams? Well, mainly it is about getting you to sign up and enter your email address. A valid email address is a precious commodity. In some cases, the lottery is connected to a specific product that they want you to buy later on. Advertising companies have done this type of game for decades. They want to establish contact with their potential customers so that they can promote their products to you. This may not be such a bad thing in general. If you are actually interested in the product that they are selling, you may even welcome the emails they will send you. Before you give away your email address, be sure to think about whether you want to receive promotional emails from that company. More often though, the people behind those offers just want your email address in order to add it to a list of emails that they will then sell to anyone who is willing to pay for it. This is the type of online lottery scam that will invariably result in a bombardment of spammy emails in your email inbox. Once you are on one of those lists, you have no chance of ever getting off it. Do not even try to use the "unsubscribe" function in the email (if there is one). Trying to unsubscribe will only confirm to them that you have read the email. Now that they know the email address is "active" (meaning the inbox is being monitored by you), the email address has an even higher value to them. Another very popular way to scam people into helping a company promote their product are posts about the chance of winning something in social media. For example, someone posts an article about a new car and tells you that each person sharing that post will get into a draw with a chance of winning such a car. What's their angle? More shares, or even just more likes, means that they reach more people with their obvious advertising of the product. If the invite to share is for a website, getting more shares is a way of manipulating Google's search algorithm. The long-term goal is to rank higher for specific search terms on Google, and Facebook shares are one way to achieve that. Let's be clear about it: some companies actually keep their promise and have a draw between all participants. In such a case, it cannot be considered a scam, but a legitimate marketing strategy. As a matter of fact, we do this kind of thing ourselves from time to time. And when we do, we keep our promise and someone will get the prize that we promised. But around 90% of the time, the persons or companies behind such offers are not giving anything away. Is RedFoxLotto a legitimate service or a scam? RedFoxLotto.com is a leg itimate courier service for lottery tickets . If you live in a country from where you cannot participate in lotteries such as Euro Millions , Eurojackpot , Powerball or Mega Millions, you can order those tickets through us. We have agents in various countries, and they get the tickets that you want. You pick the numbers , and our agents will buy them for you. This is, of course, not a free lottery. You have to pay for the tickets, and if you win something, we will assist you with the payout process, which depends on the amount won. So RedFoxLotto.com is not a scam . We hope that this article has been helpful to you. Avoid falling into those traps built on false promises, and good luck to you if you participate in a legitimate prize draw!

The size of the respective jackpot should play an important role when you decide whether to buy a lottery ticket or not. The reason is pretty clear. Assuming that the price for a lottery ticket is the same, a bigger jackpot means a better value for your money. On our site, you can easily check the current jackpot amounts for Powerball , Mega Millions and a number of other lotteries from across the globe. Just take a look at the top area of our site. Here, we list the various jackpots, ordered by size. You can scroll through the list of jackpots very easily. Then you can decide which lottery you want to participate in. Why does the jackpot amount matter? In mathematics, there is a term called expected value. It is defined as the amount you can expect to win back when you look at gamble money. If there is a set probability for the outcome of an event (or a combination of events), then you can calculate the expected value. It is determined by three factors: Factor #1 is the odds - for example, the odds of having all numbers required to win the Mega Millions jackpot on your ticket are 1 in 302,6 million. Factor #2 is the price you have to pay for the ticket. Factor #3 is the amount you can win if you do have all the numbers right. Now let's calculate the expected value for a Mega Millions jackpot with an amount of $100 million. Normally you would have to take all the smaller prizes into account here as well, but then the calculus would become very complicated. So let's just focus on the main prize here. The ticket price is $2, the odds are 1 in 302,6 million, and the jackpot size is $100 million. The expected value or EV would then be 100 million divided by 302,6 million multiplied by $2, which is $0,66 - roughly a third of what you pay for your ticket. If the jackpot were at $200 million, the EV would be double. As you can see, your mathematical EV is higher when the jackpot is larger . Actually, at a certain point, your EV can be positive - namely, in our example when the jackpot is higher than $605 million. Check the jackpot amounts and then pick the lottery with the currently highest jackpot That is the big advantage you have playing worldwide lotteries online via our service. Instead of sticking to your local lottery no matter how high today's jackpot is, you can choose from a larger number of lotteries and jackpots. No more need for you to wait until the current Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot reaches an amount that is worth your while. At the same time, if you live in a country outside the US, your lottery may be offering jackpots that never even go anywhere near the huge Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots. Maybe Euromillions is currently highest, and you want to give this lottery a try. Another interesting strategy to increase your chances would be to use the same numbers for two, three or even more worldwide lotteries . Again, you should pick your lotteries according to the size of their jackpots. Make sure that you always get the best value for the money you spend on lottery tickets. It is the only way to improve your chances of actually winning a big jackpot.