The 5th public welfare lottery computer-based lottery dealer selection is accepting applications, and the lottery will be drawn on May 31.

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[Reporters Huang Liangjie, Yang Jincheng, Cai Shuyuan, Liu Yuqing, Zhou Minhong, Huang Ziyang, Cai Sipei/Comprehensive Report] Regardless of the performance of the past ten years, computer-based lottery dealers for public welfare lottery will be re-selected this year. There are many strange phenomena.

Looking for heads and borrowing cards, there are many strange phenomena

A dealer in Kaohsiung City said that if the disadvantaged group does not win the lottery, the whole family may be in trouble, so they had to mobilize shop assistants and agents to find qualified people to participate in the lottery to increase the winning rate.

There are also existing betting shops that hope to cooperate with the lottery winners by offering preferential store rents or "shop rents for cooperation funds". They are worried that the original low-income social welfare subsidies will be canceled after the lottery business has income. If you fail to win the lottery and have no low-income subsidies, you will lose both ends.

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In addition, there are also brokers and intermediaries who travel through aboriginal tribes or social welfare groups, advocating to qualified persons, seeking "borrowing cards" for alliances, wooing or borrowing heads to operate.

But the industry revealed that many people think that the lottery business is making a lot of money, but it is not the case. Not all dealers can make money. The peak season is during the Chinese New Year when scratch games and computer lotteries are frequently sold and huge prizes are accumulated.

He said that only about 20% of the business performance is good, 20% are even, and 20% are failures, and the remaining 40% barely feed and clothe the whole family.

It is estimated that the winning rate of this round is less than 4%

He Yuqi, vice chairman of the Association for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Indigenous Lottery Dealers of the Republic of China, also said that betting shops are not as lucrative as the outside world imagines. Dealers have to be in the top 30% of the area to make a profit, and the winning rate in metropolitan areas is about Only one-eighth, winning the lottery requires good luck.

Lu Xueyuan, honorary chairman of the Professional Union of Lottery Dealers in Taoyuan City, said that it is estimated that the winning rate of the fifth session is less than 4%.

Penghu County, an outlying island, is only allocated 17 places. Because there are too many monks and too little food, in order to prevent the disadvantage of "borrowing heads", the review process requires people with disabilities to be present in person. , who are usually based in Penghu and actually live on the main island of Taiwan. Now they are troubled by running back and forth to apply for dealership qualifications, and hope to check their identity through video.