Most of you are still stuck on the "what is a lottery messenger service?" part so let's cut to the chase. So consider yourself living outside of US but you are a big lottery fan. Most of the lottery services in US are governed by states rather than Federal Laws.
It means that you have to be a citizen of that particular state to win a lottery. Now what does lottery messenger services have to do with all this? Well consider that someone who is an alleged US citizen and he can buy your lottery ticket as the middle person by providing you services? This is generally known as the courier services.
In this type of lottery messenger service, a person physically buys lottery tickets as a purchase for his client and sends back the scanned copy of the ticket to the client. This isn't considered as illegal well at least in a few states according to sources. Some research also reveals that there are legitimates websites which provide lottery messenger services to clients. So this means that US citizen can have a tough time winning the lottery if people living outside of USA are so much interested in winning them.
The only risk and challenge associated with using lottery messenger services are that many people would use the simple techniques of Photoshop to make a fake copy of the ticket. By doing so they might deliver the wrong lottery ticket to their clients producing the risk of fraud. This is both a consumer and producer risk because the producers would have a hard time convincing their clients of their authenticity and eligibility.
While the consumers would have a hard time believing the courier services if even a single mishap is recorded in this business. Well whatever the outcome, in the end luck would decide who takes the jackpot home.
