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Warning against lottery style scam
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 posted 11:41 AM EDT
DERBYSHIRE County Council's trading standard officers are warning against a lottery style scam that is currently in circulation.
Letters claiming to be from La Primitiva Lottery International Promotions Programmes tell people they have won huge amounts
in a Spanish lottery then ask for bank details and other personal information.
Cabinet member for community safety, Councillor Clive Moesby said: “If anyone receives this type of letter the best advice
is to simply throw it away.
“Scammers are very resourceful and manipulative and unfortunately our trading standards team hear from quite a few Derbyshire
residents who have fallen victim to e-mail, telephone or postal scams which can sound too good to miss. Ask yourself, does
this sound too good to be true? If the answer is yes then it probably is."
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