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If you are the first person to write a bot to automatically submit entries, you could submit most/all of the allowed 10 million entries.

OK, maybe your IP would get banned, but what if you have access to a botnet and, therefore, lots of IP addresses?

OK, maybe they have a captcha, but what if you trick your botnet victims into filling in the captchas during their normal web browsing sessions, by pretending to be a google bot-detection page?

OK, so you win, but the address is a random address that isn't yours. How much would you have to give the person whose address it really is, to pretend you live there? Half? Still not bad.



1 entry per household.


See the last paragraph. I am assuming you could use random, real addresses, and split the winnings 50/50 with the real resident.




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