How can the National Lottery get away with this blatant scam?

Question by ¢σяя вℓιмєу: How can the National Lottery get away with this blatant scam?
When you buy a physical national lottery scratchcard, you can find out exactly how many jackpots are still to be won and Camelot often promote big ‘physical’ scratchcard winners. To sell these to the public, there has to be a specific amount of prizes randomly distributed to the retailers.

However, on the national lottery website they have an online version of these scratchcards that they make look identical to the physical ones but they call them ‘Instant Wins’ and even though they are branded and designed to look the same as the physical scratchcards, Camelot discreetly say they are totally different games.
So I contacted Camelot to find out some basic info about these ‘Instant Wins’ and they won’t declare how many jackpots are available, they won’t disclose how many people have ever won a jackpot online before. Obviously, these online instant win scratchcards are controlled by an algorithm to make sure they will ALWAYS earn a large percentage of players money. But how can they legally ADVERTISE a specific jackpot when I doubt anyone has ever won one. There is no other reason for them to keep jackpot stats secret. CLEARLY, this is a scam because at least with the physical scratchcards you still have a small chance of winning big but this isn’t the case with their ‘instant wins’
Also, how are they legally allowed to advertise a jackpot prize with no proof that it actually exists for the playing public.

Best answer:

Answer by Perry
There is really no reason to lie. The lottery is a money maker either way. It is legal but not always as upfront As we would like.