How we are deceived in Russian lotteries

What is a lottery - everyone knows, especially people with the Soviet past. Then everyone could try their luck in the state lottery and become richer for a few rubles, hundreds, or even thousands. However, even today everyone has such a chance. Although in the modern lottery it is too ghostly. Today the chance to break the jackpot is equal to the chance to find a million under your feet on the way from home to work. But none of the players think about it, because gaming marketing experts do their job well. So how are we deceived in Russian lotteries?

Without loch and life is bad

What is it in these lotteries that people who are educated, financially literate, and those who have lost experience in the Guinness Book of World Records can believe in the opportunity to get rich on them? Psychologists are in solidarity with mathematicians, and have many explanations for cognitive deviations as a result of misunderstanding of chance and probability. A typical misconception of the player is that the newly dropped numbers in the near future will not fall out, and that his perseverance will eventually be rewarded.

Economists call the lottery a tax on stupidity. As a rule, it hits the pockets of representatives of the lowest strata of the population. Scientific research proves that less educated and poor people buy lotteries more often than others and spend an unreasonably large share of their incomes on them. It's unlikely that they know the fact that the probability of getting a really big win is so small that the player is much more likely to be killed by a lightning strike eaten by a shark or a selling car on the way to a lottery kiosk. But this statistics of probabilities in figures:

• Becoming an Oscar winner is 1:12 000
• To perish in a plane crash - 1: 350 000
• Dying from falling in a slippery bathroom - 1: 800,000
• Become an astronaut - 1:13 500 000
• Break the jackpot in the lottery - 1:14 000 000

Non-governmental state lottery

Scientists argue that the craving for excitement in human psychology is based on the genetic level. Primitive hunters would not have been able to feed their families and survive if they had not been chasing after mammoths with excitement. Today no one hunts mammoths, but people in Russia still need that primitive excitement to survive in the midst of a series of economic crises that are much worse than mammoths in our realities. A state that promotes and in every way stimulates faith in lottery millionaires, can hardly boast a high level of both the economy and respect for its people. Once, during the reign of tsarist Russia, Empress Catherine the Great on the Germans' proposal to found a national lottery, responded with a categorical refusal, arguing that Russia was not so poor as to humiliate their deceived people. She would have seen now, to what extent the lottery deception of the great Russian people had reached!

Today, Russia is still not poor, but, apparently, not all of its "filed" know about it. Just like they do not know that the state likes to replenish its treasury not only at the expense of taxes, but also thanks to the naivety of the poor people who play in the lottery. Trust in the state, which does not "deceive the most honest rules", still lies in the deep Soviet unconscious. Therefore, gaming advertising, which proclaims the code phrase "state lottery", very effectively uses this psychological hook. For example, the well-known lottery "Stoloto", which calls itself state, is in fact the property of businessman Armen Sargsyan, a monopolist in the field of lottery business. And it was allowed to be called state, thanks to 5% of the total revenue that goes to finance sports and charity. 43% takes the owner, and the remaining money forms the prize fund of the lottery. Therefore, a loud prefix, just a prefix, a manipulation that makes people think that everything in the lottery is honest and transparent. So, as they say - "think for yourself, decide for yourself," or not to play.

Lottery scam in Russian

Excitement in lotteries, casinos, poker clubs, sports betting is not bad, but only on the condition that everything happens without deception. And if earlier the lotteries were honest, everything was played out live, today an ideal machine for pumping money out of the population lined up with a clear control of the amount that people really win. What are the three most common tricks that will point out that the lottery is scam "in Russian":

1. Winners are not judged. The main baits in the lottery are the lucky ones who managed to break the jackpot. They are written about in newspapers and shoot reports in studios, urging the whole country to follow their example. But this is just an effective marketing move. Unveiling it will help the elementary question: which normal person will shine on the whole "Ivanovo" with a few million winnings? Often this role is performed by front-line actors or just ordinary people who are paid for and forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement for lottery secrets.

2. "Curve" broadcast. Live esters of the draws have long superseded their recordings. With wonders of erection, any modern schoolboy knows. But for some lotteries, even video records are not needed. Computer program RNG (random number generator) issues a winning combination, determining the winner in absentia. But RNG is absolutely not a guarantee of fairness of the lottery. This program is created by a person, and it can always be something to twist, change, reprogram for the benefit of the organizers.
3. Lottery "counterfeiters." About what decency of the organizers of the lotteries can be discussed, if they even sell lottery tickets with signs of clandestine printing: cheap paper, "floated" fonts, paint that sticks to the hands. But most importantly, they rarely have elementary watermarks, in which, in the case of a prize, it would be possible to prove the authenticity of a lottery ticket. A logical question arises: was it done specifically so that at any time it was possible for any participant of lotteries to say that his ticket was a fake?