Recently, there was a sensational lottery winning incident in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. According to **, a lottery player hit 2A huge jackpot of 200 million yuan. Amazingly, since the single-bet prize did not meet the tax standard of 10,000 yuan, this lucky winner can return all the bonus income of more than 200 million yuan to himself without paying any personal income tax. However, this news has sparked doubts and questions among netizens, who have wondered if the lottery shop is tricking them into buying lottery tickets. Issues such as identity authenticity, winning probability, and sales strategy became the focus of their questioning.
First of all, what aroused the suspicion of netizens was the courage and scheming of the lottery winner. He only spent 100,000 yuan on a lottery ticket and only picked 1 number to bet on. Such a move does require a great deal of courage and boldness. Because once it fails, all investments will be burned, which obviously goes against the rational thinking of ordinary people. No one would take such a risk unless he had inside information. It is reported that the probability of winning the lottery in such a time is much lower than the probability of Mars hitting the Earth. This raises more doubts about the veracity of the winning story.
However, there is some room for explanation for this misgiving. It is possible that the lucky winner did not invest alone, but formed a betting group with other players. They built a betting group on the network, found the potential winning probability of this number through the calculation and analysis of professionals, and then jointly funded the bet. If you win the jackpot, it will be distributed according to a certain percentage. In other words, the person who spent 100,000 yuan on the lottery ticket is a member of the representative lottery player group. Such a mechanism is not uncommon in the lottery world, so the veracity of the winning story cannot be completely ruled out at this point.
Secondly, what caused netizens to think deeply was that no one had come to receive the award yet. This raises concerns about the possibility of practitioners making up fake winning stories in order to attract more lottery players to buy tickets and thus boost sales. Until now, no one has come forward to claim the prize. If no one comes to claim the prize by the deadline, it will be considered forfeited. In this way, people's speculation about whether the lottery winning news is made up is even more important. Only by waiting for the results to be revealed can we truly understand the truth of the matter.
However, we can't generalize and think that the lottery industry, in the case of poor development, needs practitioners to make up stories to stimulate the desire to buy. In fact, according to the data, lottery sales are still performing well in 2023. From January to October this year, sales reached 475.9 billion yuan, an increase of 164.9 billion yuan over the same period last year. This suggests that the lottery industry doesn't need to make up similar botched stories to entice people to buy lottery tickets, as such practices are likely to damage the reputation of the institution. Therefore, this point can also be used as one of the proofs to support the authenticity of the winning story.
The third point that raised questions from netizens was that the winner bought the lottery ticket twice at different lottery stores. According to **, he first spent 100 yuan in a store to buy 50 lottery tickets, and then went to another store nearby to spend 9$850,000 to buy 49,250 bets of the same number. Ordinary lottery players generally only buy their tickets at one lottery shop and do not choose this more troublesome method. This detail confuses people. However, it has also been pointed out that this phenomenon is not surprising. In the lottery industry, there will be some competition between some lottery shops. Some lottery players will choose to buy the same numbers at different lottery shops, so that they can get more benefits and rewards with the same probability of winning. Therefore, this point is not the basis for conclusive winning stories.
The veracity of lottery winning stories, while highly debated, does not have much of an impact on lottery players. Lottery ticket buyers at this stage have become more and more mature and will not be easily stimulated by certain winning stories and bet blindly. After all, even if someone else wins the jackpot, it doesn't have much to do with you. Everyone will make a reasonable decision on whether to buy lottery tickets and how much to buy according to their actual situation and willingness to buy. Therefore, even if such news reports come out, it is unlikely to have a huge impact on the lottery players' buying behavior. You can use this matter as an after-dinner conversation, and you don't have to worry too much about whether it is true or not.
In short, the above lottery winning stories are still the focus of controversy. There are many doubts and speculations among bettors, but only time will tell. For the lottery industry, such a winning story may have some negative impact for it temporarily, but I believe that through multiple investigations and verifications, the truth will eventually surface. At the same time, as lottery players, we should also treat the lottery rationally, choose whether to participate according to their interests and abilities, and avoid blindly following the trend and indulging in it. After all, everyone should be responsible for their own finances and life, and the lottery is just a form of entertainment and should not become the dominant part of our lives.