jusmellow t1_jawut05 wrote
This is interesting. I didn't even know that was legal. I am now considering opening a business buys lottery tickets for non-citizens/non-residents. I never would have thought of that as a business idea, because I assumed only people in the State can buy the State lottery (citizens of said state)
Edit: just wanted to add -
Like it sounds scammy to me. If I bought someone else's lottery ticket for them and it was a winner winner chicken dinner worth 6.7 million.... well, not me, but someone weaker than me might ya know....not tell him it won and keep it
Justforthenuews t1_jawy6j1 wrote
You can go to other states to buy their lotto, it’s not illegal in any way. If you set this up as a business, you probably wouldn’t have that much clientele after a few time of you just saying “no wins, better luck next time!” as a matter of course.
BlurLove t1_jaxl7qk wrote
Interstate commerce will differ from international commerce. The first has significantly lower barriers (freedom to do business between states, and travel between them). The second is tightly regulated.
Justforthenuews t1_jay2n7y wrote
Doesn’t affect lotteries from what I can tell, weirdly. I just googled a half dozen I know off the top of my head and they all said that as long as the ticket is purchased in the state (some required it to be claimed locally too). There doesn’t seem to be any other hard factors, including nationality, country of residence, or anything else that would seem relevant that I could find in a cursory search.
BlurLove t1_jaylen7 wrote
Take a look here. The issue isn’t buying the lotto ticket. The issue is sending the winnings overseas.
edit: more detail
Foreign asset control at the federal level is the regulation. You don’t have a fundamental right to send things or money out of the country. Only as allowed by law.
SteelyDan1968 t1_jb1847e wrote
You can buy a Powerball/Mega Millions in other states. But, you can't cash them out in the state where you are at. If I bought a PB/MM in Texas and drove home to Chicago, and I found out that I won, I would have to go back to Texas to get my winnings. The systems are different.
puddinfellah t1_jay2oq2 wrote
Well, if that were true the lottery themselves wouldn’t have any customers lol
Justforthenuews t1_jay3lt3 wrote
Lotteries give you a hard copy of your numbers and publicly draw the winning numbers. This person’s hypothetical business model implies they don’t actually give the numbers at all to the end client so they can lie to winners and pocket any winnings.
ArOnodrim t1_jawybqm wrote
As a business strategy, just build in a transfer of only half the winnings because the money is only part of the job.
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xvier t1_jaya6b0 wrote
Not exactly. With Jackpocket, you can only purchase tickets for the state you are located in. And Jackpocket is only available in certain states - they have physically locations for each state they operate in, buying tickets per order.
jusmellow t1_jaxcfzr wrote
So only one company can do it? That's like saying Target already sells clothes so why bother opening a clothing store.
AwesomePerson70 t1_jaxnnw7 wrote
I think they mean the opposite of that. There’s a company legally doing it already which means there’s legal ways for someone new to do it
SeiCalros t1_jaxu91c wrote
they are saying first that its legal - and also that there are already people doing
PuckSR t1_jay27g2 wrote
Pretty simple to keep honest. You assign me to buy a lottery ticket with numbers 1,2,3,4. I buy the ticket. You check the winning numbers.
This is why it works for lottery tickets but not other forms of gambling. The results are published
BlurLove t1_jaxl09i wrote
There is almost certainly federal law regulating this kind of situation. You can’t just send an amount that large overseas without declaration. It may be entirely unlawful to do so if the recipient, or their location, is subject to foreign asset control status.
Also, somebody likely owes some taxes, and it doesn’t matter whether he/she is stateside. Tax jurisdiction attached to the money the moment it was won.
laineDdednaHdeR t1_jax0aot wrote
>Like it sounds scammy to me.
Because you literally just described a scam. I'm not judging you, but stating a fact. And this is why we wonder how those in power get corrupted.
Xannin t1_jazddqp wrote
What makes it a scam?
laineDdednaHdeR t1_jazdr33 wrote
Someone pays you to buy them a lottery ticket. That lottery ticket wins millions. And instead giving that person the winnings, you just run away with it and leave them high and dry.
How is that not a scam?
Xannin t1_jazgujc wrote
I thought you were just referring to the transaction prior. I think they were talking about that part being scammy.
laineDdednaHdeR t1_jb0m7nu wrote
Then he should learn to break up his paragraphs better.
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