{"id":10104,"date":"2020-09-17T22:38:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T22:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=10104"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:45:12","slug":"lottoland-scores-legal-win-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/lottoland-scores-legal-win-in-australia","title":{"rendered":"Lottoland scores legal win in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two complaints were presented against the company accusing it of using shady marketing tactics to deceive punters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia.- A court has ruled in favour of online betting company Lottoland against accusations of deceptive marketing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Australian woman had complained to the Northern Territory Racing Commission that the company refused to pay her winnings after she selected the winning numbers in a Powerball draw with a AU$126 million (US$91.91 million) prize in January 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It turns out the woman had placed the bet on another product with a AU$15 (US$10.9) price. She claimed Lottoland had intentionally used the same Powerball style logo to cause confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said the allegations were false and that the bet in question was made after the Pawerball draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court decided Lottoland was not at fault and that the customer should have read the small print to make the correct bet. She was granted the AU$15 (US$10.9) win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Northern Territory Racing Commission (NTRC) received a separate complaint by a man with the same argument. He claimed he had been cheated out of a AU$173.57 million (US$126.9 million) prize. The court decided his complaint also lacked merit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Online gambling <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australians-have-unlicensed-casinos-in-their-pocket\" target=\"_blank\">surged in Australia<\/a><\/em><\/strong> during the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two complaints were presented against the company accusing it of using shady marketing tactics to deceive punters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"An Australian court has ruled in favor of online betting company Lottoland against accusations of deceptive marketing practices. Two separate complaints alleged Lottoland misled punters into betting on a different product than the official Powerball, leading to non-payment of large 'winnings.' The court found Lottoland not at fault, emphasizing the customers' responsibility to read the small print.","focusai_entities":"Lottoland, Northern Territory Racing Commission, NTRC","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.75), product_ux (0.7), marketing_crm (0.9), investor_analyst (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Precedent Impact","query":"What specific regulatory guidance or enforcement actions might the Northern Territory Racing Commission (NTRC) issue following this ruling to enhance consumer protection regarding product differentiation in iGaming?"},{"label":"Operator Marketing Review","query":"How will this court decision influence other iGaming operators' marketing strategies and terms & conditions disclosures, particularly for lottery-style betting products, to mitigate similar legal challenges?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439],"tags":[289,3573],"class_list":["post-10104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","tag-australia","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10113,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10104\/revisions\/10113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}