Powerball & Mega Millions Duke it Out Over $1 Billion Top Spot in Lotto League

JOHANNESBURG, July 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

$508M Mega Millions Hogs the Spotlight on Friday 

This Friday night's $508 million Mega Millions (R7.6 billion) is the result of a record rollover streak lasting four months. It is the seventh biggest jackpot of all-time and the third biggest in Mega Millions history.

Africans have developed quite a taste for American lotteries in recent years, but especially so since in January of the current year, when a handful of foreigners won millions in prizes in the $1.6 billion US Powerball. Since then online sales in particularly South Africa for US lottery tickets through theLotter.com have gone through the roof. theLotter is the messenger service which two of the new millionaires used to buy their Powerball tickets in New Jersey.

With the Mega Millions now offering a huge jackpot of $508 million (or R7.6 billion) for the draw on Friday evening, the question on everyone's lips is whether the second of the two big American lotteries will also break through the magical $1 billion ceiling, as its nemesis, the US Powerball, did back in January! Mega Millions has been feeling the hot breath of the US Powerball draw ever-closer - Powerball is a whopping $257 million at the moment. Admittedly the two jackpots are still quite far apart, but the Mega Millions jackpot increases much slower than the top prize in the Powerball lottery, so the hole could shrink rather quickly. Once the two big jackpots have crossed the $0.5 billion threshold, sales will increase so much that a $1 billion ceiling will be broken in no time!

theLotter.com is the world's premier lottery ticket messenger service - it enables people to order official lottery tickets from around the world and doesn't charge any commission on wins. The service has helped people win R775 million since 2002: late 2015 one of its Iraqi clients won the $6.4 million jackpot in Oregon. In 2016 a pensioner from El Salvador won a huge prize in an American lottery, a man from Quebec, Canada, collected the $1 million second prize he won in the US Powerball and a Moscow chauffeur won nearly €1 million in the Austria Lotto! All big winner stories can be found here.

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