With a recent article clearing up confusion about local players buying tickets to overseas lotteries online, there has been a mad scramble for tickets to tonight’s R4 billion draw through these services.

Those confusions are fair enough, as we’re dealing with big numbers here. It is ‘s important to note that there are thousands of these types of online services and only some are legitimately buying tickets on your behalf. Like these guys that we use.

In the May article ‘Online Services Come Clean About Buying Overseas Lottery Tickets,’ the following was established:

From the people who run the most trusted online lotto ticket provider:

“The online lottery system has yet to have sold a jackpot winning ticket, but we process in excess of 2500 winning entries per week. The majority of these are usually fist tier winnings of approximatley $10.00, but a draw seldom goes by in which we don’t process a winning ticket in excess of $1000. The biggest win we have processed to date was in excess of $1.2million when one of our customers correctly selected all 5 main numbers and one of the two “Star” numbers on the EuroMillions draw. This customer chose to remain anonymous, as is the case with 99% of all lottery winners that have won a substantial prize.”

There are three things people usually worry about:

1) Your credit card details may not be safe,

2) The online facilitators (eg. 2oceansvibe Lottos) are not officially represented by the lottery.

3)The SA government will not allow you to claim your winnings.

Here are the answers to those legitimate fears:

1) The website and online payment system has been going successfully for over eight years and uses 128 bit SSL Security. Your credit card details will be safe. And that’s a fact.

2) It is important to note that we are in no way associated with Camelot (for the UK and EuroMillions Lotteries) nor MUSL (the Multi-state lottery provider that manages PowerBall and MegaMillions) or Sisal (SuperEnaLotto). We make this very clear on all of our reminder correspondence and our website. Your ticket price that you pay covers the physical service that we provide. That service is to line up on your behalf and purchase the ticket from a retail outlet, hence a ticket price far higher than the standard ticket price. Moreover, we also claim winnings on the customer’s behalf in the state/country that the ticket is purchased. This is perfectly legal, owing to the fact that the ticket is purchased by our staff members that are legally entitled to do so. In the event of a win, we conclude the claiming process too in order to obtain the winning amounts on your behalf. It is perfectly legal for any foreigner to purchase, own and, in the event of a win, claim any lottery ticket for any of the lotteries for which we offer our services.

3) Our 2oceansvibe Lottos partner has managed to pay out each and every local winner, legally, via the SA Reserve bank. This is not in the least bit dodgy and the process was explained (and legalities confirmed) by Radio 702′s financial guru. You can listen to that clip here.

Remember you can setup a system on their website that automatically buys you tickets when any particular lottery hits a certain minimum jackpot size (that’s what we do). CLICK HERE to learn how to do that.

Or CLICK HERE just to buy tickets to
tonight’s mammoth $400 million (R4 billion) draw!

CLICK HERE to read the article about this lotto in the LA Times.