Lottery scam warning by Office of Fair Trading
December 1, 2009
The Office of Fair Trading has announced it estimates that £260 million every year is being lost by those who fall for lottery scams. These scams are usually initiated when an e-mail, letter or phone call is received by the potential victim announcing that they have won a cash prize in a lottery game.
Spokesman for Camelot, Paul Jay warns that winners of the Lottery are never informed that they have done so by e-mail, letter or over the telephone. He goes on to say that members of the public must realize that if they have not entered a lottery draw then there is absolutely know way they will have won any money on the lottery. He warns those who do play the lottery to be extremely cautious about any notifications that they have won a prize.
Those who have bought a ticket and suspect they have won a prize should probably make checking the lottery numbers a priority.
Senior director of the Office of Fair Trading’s consumer markets group, Heather Clayton warns that as with everything that announces something that is far too good to be true the announcement of an un-expected lottery win should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Kevin Brennan, Consumer minister for the government said that they were in the process of setting up a scam-busting team that will concentrate on combating internet scams throughout the U.K. in order to provide more protection to consumers who are the target of such fraudulent activity.
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