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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

There is something very 'sus' about the constant price rises for entry into draws. Is it possible that all the warm and fuzzy chit-chat about how tightly regulated The Lott is, could be just a thin ve... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

So here we are on August 18th My accidental exclusion is still not resolved I am unable to log in at The Lott They won't call me as it's to hard to dial my number Short fingers I guess I wond... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

What a truly disgusting web site. It’s totally illogical and more frustration in life. Just simply wanted refresh my login details but they make it unbearable. Just going around in loops making me ang... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The website used to be good, especially for checking lottery tickets but for some reason, whenever i try checking my ticket, it says "Pending, please wait while we calculate". When i go to my local ne... See more

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The Lott is the mark of trust that unites Australia's Official Lotteries by Tatts (Tattersall's Sweeps Pty Ltd), Tatts NT (Tatts NT Lotteries Pty Ltd), NSW Lotteries (NSW Lotteries Corporation Pty Ltd), Golden Casket (Golden Casket Lottery Corporation Limited) and SA Lotteries (Tatts Lotteries SA Pty Ltd) under one banner. Every time you play your favorite games through Australia's Official Lotteries, you are helping to play an important role in supporting and inspiring our Australian communities.


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Ive been waiting on their phone line…

Ive been waiting on their phone line (131 868) for 2 hours now and this has been the case for the past week, and the other day the call ended after I had waited an hour on the phone!

My issue is that my account has been waiting for verification for multiple MONTHS so I can't log in at all. Sort your stuff out, people are willing to throw their money down the drain and into your pockets and you cant even have decent customer service.

Dont bother telling me to call your phone nuber because im waiting on the queue right now LOL also to make the call less annoying, consider changing the wait music from some guy telling the same 2 stories over and over with the constant interruption of the automated voice saying "thank you for continuing to hold" every 5 seconds.

29 January 2024
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Reply from The Lott

Hello,
Thankyou for your feedback and sorry to hear this. We are experiencing longer wait times due to the high jackpot tonight. Thankyou for your patience, hope you have a great day.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible customer service

For one of the richest companies in the country they could at least answer the phone occasionally

29 January 2024
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Reply from The Lott

Hello James,

We are experiencing higher wait times due to the high jackpot on Thursday night. Thankyou for your patience. Have a great day.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Scam app.

I wanted to withdraw my money from my online account. They wouldn't give me the $100 I wanted. Said I can only have $25. What right do they have to keep my money. Don't join this scam app.

27 January 2024
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Reply from The Lott

Hello,

Sorry to hear this. You can only withdraw winnings from your online account, this being said if you call our customer care team on 131 868, they will be able to provide you with a refund. Have a great day.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

thelott.com Dodgy thieves

Dodgy as thieves.
I tried to deposit $25 and instead my bank notified me $253 was transfered. This is not what was on my screen when sent, now apparently they have a useless withdraw funds button because they will not allow me to get it back regardless of how long it takes to verify everything. They want me to gamble it all away. This is blatant thievery. Currently getting Fair Trading to look at it. Even dodgy car yards are more subtle. I will not let them win, lets start a class action to get this out in the open. As to calling wait times are hours, not for me, you call me, i am too busy earning a living. Gambling compliance as well as minister and shadow minister for gambling in qld notified. Have a nice day.

21 January 2024
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Reply from The Lott

Hello,

Sorry to hear this. Please call our customer care team on 131 868 and they will be able to refund your money. Have a great day.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It's a scam run by offshore AI …

It's a scam run by offshore AI computers.

The computer works out which numbers have NOT been played by customers and those numbers end up being the winning numbers.

The punters money goes offshore to fund already extremely wealthy corporates,

24 January 2024
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Reply from The Lott

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback. All draws takes place under government regulators who ensure the integrity of all draws. Hope that helps.

Have a great day.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Customer Service

Customer Service - what a joke whenever I call (regardless of time or day) I’m waiting 2 hours for someone to answer my call.
Every couple of weeks I get a message from The Lott saying I’ve got to change my password and they’ve suspended my account as my password has become public.
So I have to call and wait 2 hours every time.
It’s a vicious circle - account suspension - have to change password- have to call customer service.
Ahhh!!!!!!!!!!!what in the hell is going on????

23 January 2024
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Reply from The Lott

Hello,

Thanks so much for your feedback.We are sorry this has happened. We are always trying to better our customer care and ensure our customer safety is our top priority, hence your password needing to be reset. For a suspended account you will need to call our customer care team on 131 868 for privacy and safety reasons.

Have a great day.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Customer support wait times are TOTALLY…

Customer support wait times are TOTALLY UNREASONABLE. Have waited over 2 HOURS each time for a simple phone number change ALL WEEK. Still hasnt been fixed... how hard is it really? I suppose this is the Lott telling me to stop gambling. At this rate I might just oblige.

19 January 2024
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Reply from The Lott

Hello, Sorry to hear this. Due to the increase demand due to high jackpots the wait time is often increased. Hope that helps, have a great day.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Fraudulent

Wow, a scam operating out in the open. You can win prize money but can never withdraw it, only use it to play more tickets. For example, I had a win of $81.00. When I try to withdraw the winnings it says “insufficient funds” even when the balance says $81.50.
There is a note that says “Funds that have been deposited via BPay, Direct Deposit (EFT), PayPal, Visa card or Mastercard cannot be withdrawn to bank accounts.” Okay, so that covers every payment method possible…
Simply have a look at the responses to these reviews below to get a sense of how they operate - they don’t care. Not sure how The Lott has managed to avoid being investigated by the ACCC.

29 December 2023
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Reply from The Lott

Hi Paul, Thanks for reaching out! You can only withdraw money that has been won in prize money. If you have won the money you should have no issues in withdrawing it to your chosen bank account, if you're still having issues you can give our team a call on 131 868 and they can help you.

If you have incorrectly deposited money into your account, you can give our team a call to withdraw it for you on 131 868.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Cannot log into my account anymore thanks to those stupid puzzles

I'm on the autism spectrum and I struggle a lot to process various kinds of information. So I keep trying and trying to solve these stupid puzzles to log into my account and I can't! I guess they don't want me to spend money and buy a ticket then. Who's the genius who decided to make it so difficult and prevent people form being able to access their account?? I could understand one CAPTCHA as a security measure, but having to complete 5-10 puzzles? Ridiculous

8 December 2023
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Reply from The Lott

Hi Emily,

So sorry to hear you've had a negative experience. Thanks so much for your feedback, we will pass this on.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Bunch of crooks company is rigger,

Bunch of crooks company is rigger,
spent $70.00 on a ticket won nothing, on online account if you win and re spend the money you never win on money you have won from them government don't care, there making a profit from them

5 December 2023
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Reply from The Lott

Thankyou for your feedback. We will pass this on.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Was double charged and blamed for your technical incompetence

When I was making a ticket purchase and pressed submit to process the payment, the screen turned to white and froze. However, the purchase went through yet theLott charged me $26.95 twice. It was a technical fault. I noticed the double charge later when going through my bank transactions, and notified the bank, which raised an incident and eventually I had one of the double charges re-imbursed. A few weeks later when I tried to log into theLott, they had blocked my account. I called them up and their tech support was extremely rude and said I owe them $26.95 for the reimbursement or they won't reactivate the account. I told them I already paid them for the one ticket that I purchased, they had no right to double charge me as I didn't purchase 2 tickets, and was double charged, where the transaction was processed on 28/10/23 at 07:58:31 and then less than a second later, again at 07:58:42. He was so nasty and unprofessional about it that I just told your tech support guy - your company has lost a customer and hung up on him. Tech guy - please fix your bugs you slacker. If you don't know how to, get someone else to fix it instead of blaming the customer.

28 October 2023
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Reply from The Lott

Hello, So sorry to hear about your negative experience, this is not what we strive for with our customer service. If you are still having issues with your account please call our customer care team on 131 868 and explain your situation and they will be willing to resolve your experience. Have a great day.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They Play The Sucker

Always those with the least money, desperate in desperate times, get sucked into The Lott's promises of big wins. I am sure their draws are legitimate and monitored fairly as they don't need to cheat on players, it's already done so by the extra balls and greater odds against you. Lotto used to be 6 from 40. Adding five more balls greatly reduced your chances of winning a major prize, you'd have to spend way more to get the coverage in whatever system or wheel you use. And their prices have increased. I remember when a system 9 was $20. And Sat lotto is even more jacked up in cost. You really do need to be lucky. Powerball the same. There is no excuse for jacking up the cost of Saturday Lotto just because the payout is better, which inevitably results in many lower payouts because every man and his dog is playing. I appreciate that funds go to kids hospitals et al, but why not the arts? British Lotteries fund major arts and consequently their culture is richer for it. The Lott are just greedy and much of their scaping from poor losers like us go to their corporate execs and buddies. We are considering moving to New Zealand and there the NZ Lotto is 6 from 40, not 45. And add a Powerball to their Lotto if you wish. Sure the prizes aren't as high as you would get here, but a better chance at winning *something* more often is better than the little chance you have in Australia. Who needs 80 million? Or 20 million? I'd be happy with a 1 mil win to pay off a few bills. This accumulation of odds against you to award a single individual a huge sum of money is just adding to the one percenters. It's far better in our society to spread more smaller wins to more people who need it, instead of filling the coffers of execs and their various sprogging associates who beat their chests when a single individual wins a mega prize that will by all historic research usually go to waste. If you win 'too much', then give to charity.  For every 80m winner, I bet there are 80 people who would put their hands up just for a million. Play The Lott and your chances are slim pickin's; these vampires just want to keep sucking your dollar til you are too old to know what to do with money. My advice? Look for games with less balls. Would be great if we had Fantasy 5, much better odds. But no,The Lott want to jack you off for as much of your hard-earned bux as they can. Btw, stay away from those international lottery vendors, you have no control.

1 November 2023
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Reply from The Lott

Hello,

Thanks so much for your feedback. We are always trying to better our games so appreciate you taking the time.

Have a great day.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Don't play with them, you'll lose everything!!!

It's been almost two weeks since I submitted documents for ID verification. they are currently still unverified.
i'm still receiving sms prompting me to verify my identity as if I had submitted nothing at all, and my account is likely to be suspended in few days

Edit 05/11/23
They suspended my profile even after i gave them my id and proof of adress.
I spent a lot of money in scratchy, and now i've lost every single 2nd chance i had!!!
I'll never spend 1$, you robbed me of everything!!!

30 October 2023
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Reply from The Lott

Hello,

Sorry to hear this. Please call our customer care team on 131 868 and they will be able to assist with your verification and suspended account.

Have a great day.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Constant crashing when simply viewing…

Constant crashing when simply viewing which syndicate ticket wishing to purchase. So damn frustrating app to use despite buying tickets on a weekly basis for years!!!

7 October 2023
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Reply from The Lott

Hello, Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. I've passed on your feedback and we will look into this to ensure efficiency in the future.
Have a great day.

Kindest,
The Lott

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Haven’t personally invested

Haven’t personally invested in it but a lot of people i know does and they win too but mostly it’s division 6 wins. Looking for answers here whether to invest or not

2 October 2023
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Reply from The Lott

Hello Quintana,

Thankyou for your question. Unfortunately we are unable to give guidance in regards to this question and we ask that you conduct your own research.

Have a great day.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I believe set for life is a spam I was…

I believe set for life is a spam I was playing for more than 1 years and I have my system and every time they can change the wining number and the results not coming on the computer and there is no time for the results like tonight 22:45 the results didn’t come yet it’s mean they playing with the number I will stop playing because it’s spam

2 October 2022
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Reply from The Lott

Hello,

Thankyou for your feedback. All draw are conducted under the supervision of government regulators. 

Have a great day!

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Disappointing

Disappointing - can’t even get through on the phone to discuss an issue. Having been advised it was a 30 sec wait, still waiting 15 minutes. Tried again - same story. Was very pleased I could call on a weekend but wondering where the ‘next available consultant’ actually is???

2 September 2023
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Reply from The Lott

Hi Bailey,

Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. I've passed on your disappointment.

Have a great day.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The Lott app is the most inefficient

The Lott app is the most inefficient app i have used.
I set up my login details and logged on. I made a purchase. The next time i attempted to log in i was told my details are incorrect. I checked what I had put in, and it agreed. I tried again, checking my details before hitting the enter key. same result.
I changed my password. OK, it went in.
Next time i tried, again it said my details were wrong.
When i purchased at the local agent, i told the operator of my experience. She said she had the same experience and had eventually given up trying with the app.

25 August 2023
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Reply from The Lott

Hi John, Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. I've passed on your feedback and we will look into this to ensure efficiency in the future.
Kindest,
The Lott

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They will take your money with their…

They will take your money with their app but if you win anything they will refuse to pay you if you don’t provide them with electronic identification.

4 August 2023
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Reply from The Lott


Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear you have had a negative experience. Please follow the link below for further information regarding withdrawing funds.

https://help.thelott.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001831534-Why-can-t-I-withdraw-funds-from-my-account-

Have a great day.

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