With the advent of the dot com bubble and the internet revolution, online purchases today, have become a fad. An increasing number of people who are opening PayPal accounts have seen a tremendous increase in the filling up of their sign-up forms.

International wire-transfers have also undergone an enormous traffic reversal and tax amendments are now being made each day to make certain proper international bank deposits.

Take by way of example, HubPages. Amazon pays only by cheques to Non-U. S associates. Because of this a lot of people were refraining from signing-up on the revenue sharing site. To eliminate this, HubPages started the HubPage Earning program where the author could get the Amazon revenue straight into his or her PayPal via HubPages.

All these trends indicate how the Cloud Pocket phenomenon is blooming at the moment.

With the increase in online transactions, the internet lottery sites have also made their mark. These sites put up giveaways on their link homepage and people bid a really low price for the article to go into the contest. Usually it is way below the actual cost of the object. For example you need to pay around $5 for a PS3. Get the real difference? Yeah. So if you happen to win the lottery in which case you could get a PS3 just for $5. If you don't then you just lose a meager $5.

I know it's a gamble although the odds of you winning the lottery are usually there. And how exactly does the site take advantage of this? Well, they harvest all of the $5s that the contestants paid to sign-up for winning. Let's say the price of a PS3 is $250. If 50 people sign-up for the lottery, the site owner or sponsor has already garnered his cost price and starts running an equivalent revenue. Simply, in the event the site has a high mark-up index on search engines and does its advertising campaigns well, a great deal more than 50 people will be going to sign-up for the sweepstakes. So the sponsor crosses his equivalent point and also the amount of people that sign-up after the first 50 multiplied by $50 is his profit.

People like taking risks in today's world. Some feel that lotteries have an alternative essence of their own much like adventure sports. Scientific studies have also risen to suffice because of this. Analysts within the health care field state that entering a lottery, making a bet or taking a risk causes the adrenal glands to release a whole lot of adrenal within the body. This adrenal makes the metabolic activities faster and thus increases the motor senses of the body because of secondary release of serotonin. Serotonin induces a feeling of excitement and well-being, the same as your can of beer or Red-Bull.

People today are entering such lotteries and trying out their luck just for the fun of it. It is becoming more and more popular and nobody can escape the self-indulgence of such a profitable offer. Lottery, I must say may become a really interesting case study for the psychologists.