BAKER: please add to notables. Dig request.
LOTTERIES - ANOTHER MONEY MAKING SCHEME
This is just a theory, albeit an entirely plausible one.
Lotteries are rigged, the poor pay, the rich harvest.
The following is from reddit. I have no way of verifying the story, but the scheme makes perfect sense.
A guy finds some low-key DIY youtube-channel and subscribes. Dude in the videos claims there is a scheme in place where "the powerful" chose the next lottery numbers to win, the numbers are posted on a TOR-website, someone in the know wins (maybe not all the time), but most of the money is pocketed.
Reddit-dude sees videos that correctly predicted winning numbers one day ahead of the draw on two occasions. Tries to check the TOR-site, but it's already down. Posts about this on reddit, gets a take-down note. Then the youtube-guy deletes all his vids and posts one video update that is clearly scripted and read out by him, with one other guy in the room who says "good" at the end of the monologue. While reading, he taps S-O-S with his hands.
Whether you believe this or not is irrelevant. The lottery-scam is a total no-brainer.
I don't know anything about lotteries and where to start, but this needs to be looked into.
reddit link: https://pay.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/b8d6i5/the_story_behind_the_kid_who_showed_the_winning/
archived: https://archive.fo/r9yRA
youtube (last video): https://www.youtube.com/embed/UUXhsB5NJI4?enablejsapi=1