Lottery & gambling are two sides of same coin i.e. bet to have an uncertain chance of benefit on paying no matter either win or loss. With new emerging technologies methods of sins and crimes are also emerging.
Now a days many sources like television, radio etc. ask to answer a question through SMS and there is no limit for a unique viewer/listener to send SMS, even encourage to send more and more SMS to have greater chances to win via lucky draw. The SMS is neither free nor on regular rates (i.e. if you are a subscriber of a SMS package/bundle, will not work for that competition) rather on higher price like 4 bucks or even more.
SMS sender looses money immediately each time sends SMS whereas there is no guarantee of become the winner. This trend is more popular in women and teenagers who do not understand the conspiracy.
In short this is gambling either categorize in lottery or other kind of bet.
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