"There is a pleasure in being mad. It is none but the madman's" - Old Klingon Proverb.

1/03/2008

Are SMS contests lotteries ?

I have always wondered about this. Gambling is banned in Tamil Nadu... right.. ? Then how can cell phone companies make money... by making people respond to truly simple questions like "Do we have red on the Indian tricolour?"... and charge 6 Rs per SMS ?

Doesn't that amount to gambling ? even people without money might just charge their cell phone for 10 rs to answer that question in the hope of winning a Motor bike. The sponsor and the cell phone company would recieve a lak of SMSes, which would more than cover the prize money.

Is this gambling ?

1 comments:

hkarthi said...

well i guess the meaning for "gambling" is written different for these companies in their corporate dictionaries :-)