Telephone line use enablement of lottery participation

A method of increasing or maintaining usage of a selected telephone company's lines, which includes the steps:

• a) establishing a fund, and an associated fund telephone number,
• b) providing a protocol by which a telephone user becomes eligible to obtain funds in said fund, wherein the following steps are provided:
• i) the user uses the telephone company's line or line segment, or connections to make a call to said associated fund telephone number,
• ii) the user's identifier is provided and communicated to the telephone company or to the fund, and
• c) selecting at least one user identifier from a group of such communicated identifiers, which validates user access to the fund,
• d) monitoring incoming calls to said associated fund telephone number to determine whether or not they are incoming on said selected telephone company's line or line segment or connections,
• e) and effectively blocking usage for access to the fund of calls incoming on lines other than said telephone company's line or line segment or connections, thereby excluding access to the fund of said calls on said other lines.