The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office will launch its first-ever online or electronic lottery in November as it downplayed fears that
PCSO general manager Melquiades Robles said: “We have a new product, probably in November. It would be more easy and convenient .”“That’s why we came up with the idea of an alternative lottery.What is amusing is, before we could do it, there was already an operation of two illegal sites. We cannot divulge them because we plan to file cases,” he said.He also dismissed concerns that the operation of the traditional lotto outlets would die with the electronic transactions.
“There will be more for the stalls. The e-lotto caters to a different group, people who do not want to go out of the rain or sun as well as those who could not park ,” he said.He urged overseas Filipino workers to place their bets once the lotto mobile-app has been put in place.