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California Lottery Corporation's California Mega Millions
California Mega Millions Front Page
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Edition Date: Friday, April 30th, 2010
Ball 9 'hits' 6 drawings!
Ball 9 has appeared in 6 drawings over the past 2 years! Quickly see other hot numbers over the past 2 years listed from MOST to LEAST.
Click on these links to view the HOTTEST Lists:
Have you already won?
Enter your favorite numbers and see how they have done over the previous two-year period.
The COLDEST Listings
The coldest lists the selections that have appeared the fewest times
over a period of time. You'll see them listed from LEAST to MOST. Click on these links to view the COLDEST Lists:
The NUMERICAL Listings
When you want to see how many times your favorite selection has hit over the past 6 months, year, or two years. Click on these links to view the NUMERIC ORDERED Lists:
Ball 55 has been absent for 17 drawings!
Find out what other balls have been absent by checking the Longest Missing Listing. Click
to view the Longest Missing.
Most Recent Drawings
Here's the results of the last five drawings. Click to view the last 25 drawings!
LaFleur's Lottery World is an industry
magazine that maintains much information about U.S. lotteries (sales, number of
employees, number of retailers, where the money goes, etc.).
NASPL is the North American Association
of State and Provincial Lotteries. It has a wealth of information about U.S. and
Canadian lotteries including lottery revenues, where the money goes, compulsive
gambling issues, history of the lottery, lottery terms and much more.
Lottery Vendors
AWI (On-line lottery services and
products supplier)
"Congratulations!
You may receive a certified check for up to $400,000 U.S. CASH!
One Lump sum! Tax free! Your odds to WIN are 1-6."
"Hundreds of U.S. citizens win every week using our secret system!
You can win as much as you want!"
Sound great? It's a fraud.
Scam operators — often based in Canada — are using the telephone and direct mail to entice U.S. consumers to buy chances in high-stakes foreign lotteries from as far away as Australia and Europe. These lottery solicitations violate U.S. law, which prohibits the cross-border sale or purchase of lottery tickets by phone or mail.
Still, federal law enforcement authorities are intercepting and destroying millions of foreign lottery mailings sent or delivered by the truckload into the U.S. And consumers, lured by prospects of instant wealth, are responding to the solicitations that do get through-to the tune of $120 million a year, according to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
The Federal Trade Commission says most promotions for foreign lotteries are likely to be phony. Many scam operators don't even buy the promised lottery tickets. Others buy some tickets, but keep the "winnings" for themselves. In addition, lottery hustlers use victims' bank account numbers to make unauthorized withdrawals or their credit card numbers to run up additional charges.
The FTC has these words of caution for consumers who are thinking about responding to a foreign lottery:
If you play a foreign lottery-through the mail or over the telephone-you're violating federal law.
There are no secret systems for winning foreign lotteries. Your chances of winning more than the cost of your tickets are slim to none.
If you purchase one foreign lottery ticket, expect many more bogus offers for lottery or investment "opportunities." Your name will be placed on "sucker lists" that fraudulent telemarketers buy and sell.
Keep your credit card and bank account numbers to yourself. Scam artists often ask for them during an unsolicited sales pitch.
The bottom line, according to the FTC: Ignore all mail and phone solicitations for foreign lottery promotions. If you receive what looks like lottery material from a foreign country, give it to your local postmaster.
To report telemarketing fraud of any kind, contact your state Attorney General.
The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop and avoid them. To file a complaint or to get free information on consumer issues, visit www.ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION FOR THE CONSUMER
1-877-FTC-HELP www.ftc.gov
Produced in cooperation with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service
January 2000