There is plenty in the news about recent lottery scams which has conned and cost hundreds of thousands of British people an estimated £260 million in all.

Apparently the problem is getting worse with the average victim being £1,900 out of pocket and hardly any of them bothering to report it to the authorities.

The general rule of thumb is that if it seems to good to be true then it probably is, don’t fall for any emails, telephone calls or letters telling you you have won a prize and never send money upfront. If you havent bought a ticket then it is most likely to be a scam so beware!

Each year 140,000 people get conned into believing they have won so don’t be one of them, play the lottery of course and have some fun doing it and if you want to play online then play somewhere reputable like The Lotter where you can play lotteries from all around the world and be safe in the knowledge that it is not a scam.

The weekend is almost upon us again and a busy time for the lotteries around the world so we thought we would mention a few that are going to be drawn over the weekend so that you can decide which to play.

The Italian SuperEnalotto has to be first up, it is drawn on Saturday and this week the jackpot stands at €95,000,000 which incidently is the biggest in the world at the moment.

EuroMillions which is due to be drawn this evening and stands at €15,000,000

The two big ones from the USA Mega Millions which is drawn Friday evening and stands at US$47,000,000 and Powerball which is drawn Saturday and stands at US$25,000,000.

A couple more for Saturday include the Irish Lotto with a jackpot of €2,500,000 and the Brazilian Mega Sena standing at R$ 12,000,000.

If none of these take your fancy then there are plenty more, have a browse around the lotter and see if you can make you weekend a lucky one!

It’s creeping up, the Spanish El Gordo is drawn on the 22nd December and you still have time to get your hands on a ticket.

This lottery pays out US$4 BILLION to over 1,202,490 cash prize winners around the world and it dosent get any better than that, or does it? well…. how about 70% of Ticket Revenue Paid Out as Prize Winnings,
All Prizes Paid Out in a Lump Sum,Free of Government Taxes, and you can Play El Gordo from Anywhere in the World!

You can even if you prefer play in a group which means more chances of winning of course, the El Gordo is the biggest lottery in the world so if you are planning on treating youself this Christmas this could turn out to be a bigger present than you bargained for!

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Did you know that the National Lottery website have a list of unclaimed lottery wins that add to up hundreds of thousands of pounds and the clock is ticking on all of them!

The biggest is a £286,508.5 EuroMillions ticket that was bought for the 24th July draw and was purchased in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets area. The prize is for matching 5 numbers and 1 lucky star, the numbers were 14,15,25,35,47 and the lucky stars 5 and 9.  If this money is not claimed by 20th January 2010 then the fund will go to the good causes the lottery supports.

The most recent one is for £95,180 for the Lotto and was bought in the Dunfermline and West Fife area for the draw on the 11th November, the numbers were 4,6,12,31,38,48 and the bonus ball 29.

There are plenty more on the website so if you have a ticket that you have not checked yet dig it out and get yourself along to the National Lottery website, your clock could be ticking and you dont even know it!

You have just a few hours left to be in with a chance of winning the biggest lottery jackpot in the world right now! The Italian SuperEnalotto is going to be drawn this evening and it is offering a staggering €92,300.000 to any lucky person who manages to pick all the drawn numbers.

The play matrix is 6/90 which is a difficult ask but it has been done many times before and will be done again but when and to whom has yet to be decided.

Prizes go down 5 levels with a 1 in 327 chance of winning a prize at the last level which wont be life changing amounts of money but may give you enough to try again on the next draw which is Thursday.

It is going to cost you just US$11.25  for 5 tickets and with 5 chances of winning that juicy jackpot we feel it has got to be worth a go!

Think back to Wednesday the 3rd June this year, did you buy a lottery ticket in the Torfaen area ? because if you did and you haven’t yet checked your ticket you had better get your skates on and do it today!

The unclaimed ticket is worth a whooping £190,000 and has to be claimed by 17:30 on Monday the 30th November, if it isn’t the money will all go to good causes just like an unclaimed £2 milllion ticket did which was bought in the same area in 2003.

Time is running out fast and lottery officials are urging anyone who thinks they may have an unchecked ticket to dig it out and check it as soon as possible, it’s a masive sum and could change someones life. The largest amount ever unclaimed is £9,476,995 in 2005.

The winning numbers were 4, 6, 22, 31, 33, 35 and the bonus ball was 3, if you think you have the missing ticket ring the lottery line on National Lottery Line on 0845 910 0000 without delay!

One winner scooped the lot on New Zealands Powerball on the 21st November and are cashing in a cheque for a huge NZ$6 million.

You can be a New Zealand millionaire no matter where you live when you play through the Lotter, all you have to do is join and pick which lottery you would like to play from a total of 53 world lotteries.

The New Zealand Powerball lottery is one of our favourites, it uses a 6/40 + 1/10 play matrix and to win the jackpot you have to match all numbers drawn, massive odds for acheiving that of course but the good thing about the New Zealand Powerball Lottery is that it pays out down a massive twelve levels with the odds on winning at the last level being around 1 in 363.

Just the one chance each week to play on Saturdays with next Saturdays jackpot standing at NZ$ 4,000,000, it is nice and cheap to play with five tickets costing just US$8.60 and you can even play in your own currency.

Someone has to win so give it a go!

It’s Friday and for all  lottery fans everywhere that can only mean one thing, it’s EuroMillions day!

This week we are playing for €15,000,000, dont forget you can live anywhere in the world to get in on the action and just incase you havent played EuroMillions before all you have to do is pick 5 numbers from 50 and 2 from 9, match them all and you are a EuroMillions millionaire!

There are 12 pay out levels should you not be lucky enough to win the jackpot so dont despair you can even win just for matching 1 number and 2 lucky stars and the odds of doing that come in at a great 1 in 102.

For all you overseas players it dosent cost the earth to play, it will cost you just US$37.25  to play 5 tickets and you can purchase them in your own currency! Plus if you are new to the Lotter you will recieve a welcome bonus of buy a ticket get one free!

What are you waiting for? Click on the banner and have a go!

UK players click here to play EuroMillions

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The UK National Lottery celebrated it’s 15th birthday this week and in that 15 years it has made 2,300 people milionaires, given away £35.4 billion in prize money and contributed £23 billion to good causes. The average value of a big win is £2,090,802.37.

Lots of the lucky big winners have got together this week to celebrate the anniversary of the lottery and have been speaking about  how their new financial status has changed their lives including some of the first things they bought and what they did when they found out they had won.

Most new lotto millionaires quit their job with only 1 in 6 carrying on working full time, moving home to a bigger place is another at the top of the list and the typical new millionaire also buys a total of 5 cars.

Travel is another popular past time with one lucky winner visiting 95 countries since their win while another went and bought a football club, most lottery winners agree that the money has given then time and freedom to do the things they want to do.

There are on average 4 million winners of the National Lottery every week and some of them have to be the big winners so go on buy a ticket and dream about what you would do if you won the jackpot!

Did you know that the lotter has a total of 53 world lotteries to play, all the usual well known lotteries such as USA Powerball, USA Mega Millions, Italian SuperEnalotto and the Brazilain Mega Sena to some lesser known ones that have got to be worth a look and include Israel’s New Lotto, Hong Kong’s Mark Six and France’s Loto to name just a few.

If you add up the all the jackpots available at the Lotter at this moment in time they add up to an amazing US$425,824,787, the biggest being the Italian SuperEnalotto which has been rolling over and stands at €90,000,000!

Since the Lotter began it has transfered a total of US$14,319,788.00 to 267,692 lucky lottery winners who searched the world at the lotter and took their chance, the latest big winner who played at the lotter was Toma K a New York resident who choose MegaMillions and walked away with one quarter of a million dollars!

Remember you do not have to be resident of the country who’s lottery you wish to play at the lotter, it is simple easy and safe and most importantly you get to keep all your winnings!