I often see different lotteries held in our city; you only need to buy a ticket, and according to the promises of the organizers, you will win something valuable. But I have never seen people who would win such lotteries by accident; I still tend to think that all lotteries are money thrown to the wind. It is quite possible to win small prizes, but large sums, according to my observations, are won by those who organize such lotteries.
I never trust these offline national lotteries and the reason is that i never seen any person whom i know have won these lotteries. Yes a lot of people will buy these lotteries (because the entry fee is too low) and there will be people who are declared winner of these lotteries but i still do not trust them.
I feel that the result of these lotteries are manipulated too, meaning either the winners declare are their near and dear ones or the result are bogus, and the winners of lotteries are fake and do not exists in real.