I remember entering a few car raffles in shopping centres years ago. Each time it was stated the winners would be advertised in a particular newspaper on a particular date.

In every case on that date there was a notice saying the draw was postponed to a later date.

On checking the new date, a further postponment date was listed. this was repeated about three times until simply nothing was printed in the newspaper..

so now i treat all car raffles as scams.