MidoLotto: Play the Lottery 17+

First lottery ticket purchase ever - this is fun!

I purchased my first EVER lottery ticket with the Mido Lotto app - and I already won $2 last night - my third time playing! I never even thought about playing the lottery before, but this app makes it a no-brainer. Someone is gonna win at some point - why not me?). And it's cheap thrill -- who doesn't need that during these times! I pre-loaded my wallet with $25 for "entertainment" so I can easily buy tickets when it's convenient for me (insomnia shopping!) So now buying a ticket only takes about 5 seconds from start to finish - just pick game, choose numbers and bam! After that, it's kind of like Christmas morning opening the app to see if I won! (The whole process is done in the app including payment on prizes under $600 - so you are prompted to check your ticket which is digital so you can't lose it!). I also just set up a group so I can invite friends and increase our odds of winning. Thanks ML for giving me something to look forward to while I'm stuck at home! If you have zoom fatigue this might be a new way to be social and do something different with friends/family and fingers crossed maybe hit it big! :-) Need something to dream about these days!

Attention CA Lotto Players

Great app! Use to but my tickets on here all the time. Beats going out and waiting in a line. Well deserved 5 stars. But today I received an email from the official CA Lottery that read:
“The California Lottery warns players not to buy your tickets online or through a digital app. App-based and online lottery ticket resellers and courier delivery services are not affiliated with the California Lottery and are illegal in California. If you buy a winning ticket online or in a third-party app the Lottery will not pay any prize and must deny all prize claims associated with such tickets. The California Lottery is legally prohibited from knowingly paying prizes on tickets acquired through an online courier service. Players who choose to engage with these services do so at their own risk”.
So I guess I’ll have to but my tickets now in person.

Developer Response ,

Hi there! I want to start off by saying thank you for being a Mido Lotto customer and so happy to hear you've enjoyed our app. I can understand your concern surrounding the message you received from the CA Lottery and hope I can help clarify.

We have been proudly operating as a lottery courier in California since 2016, in the open, with full knowledge of the California State Lottery. There has been no additional legislation since then restricting our users from utilizing our services or claiming any winnings or prohibiting us from legally operating our business as a lottery courier.

We have paid out millions of dollars worth of prizes to our users in the past 7 years and have never had a single prize claim denied or rejected by any state Lottery, including California.

Here's a link to our official response for more context: https://www.midolotto.com/press/california-lottery-statement.pdf

We appreciate all of your support and hope this clarified any hesitations you may have had. If you have any further questions, please feel free to reach out to our Customer Success team at cs@midolotto.com.

Clearly Risky APP - safe until you win big

It’s from your TOS ( Terms of service ) Conditions and Restrictions. We may, at any time and in our sole discretion, refuse the order of a Ticket via the Services, impose limits on the amount of Tickets that may be ordered via the Services, or impose any other conditions or restrictions upon your use of the Services, without prior notice. So you clearly mentioned you have all the rights to refuse any order / ticket at any point of time!! Which mean you even can refuse the order and cancel ticket once after they won Big and you guys can claim that jackpot is not it ?? Also you can impose any new conditions any time wow There is no proof of security with you guys !!

Update : regards to the replay from dev about recent biggest jackpot win that they paid in April .. what you say about this ??
The ticket was purchased in Colleyville at Hooked on MT, a lottery courier service. Lottery courier services are third-party companies that purchase tickets on behalf of Texas Lottery players and deliver them digitally to players via third-party apps.
A bill introduced in April sought to ban the use of smartphones and apps to order lottery tickets. The bill was passed through the Texas Senate but didn't reach the House floor during the regular legislative session.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for taking the time to read through our Terms of Service. That clause exists so that we're able to cancel an order in the event of an emergency. For example, if a statewide power outage happens near the cutoff time, we need to be able to cancel any unfulfilled orders (and provide refunds accordingly). You can rest assured that we have paid out millions of dollars worth of prizes to our customers, including several prizes over $100,000. The largest jackpot-winning ticket fulfilled through one of our own Lottery retailers was for $95M in April. This prize was claimed by the winner and paid out in accordance with Lottery regulations in July.