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Lottery scammers target North households
Mar 1 2009 by Colin Patterson, Sunday Sun
INTERNATIONAL lottery scammers are continuing to target North households as part of a multi-million pound fraud racket.
The lottery cheats, believed to be operating from Spain, have bombarded people in the region with letters and documents in a bid to obtain their bank details.
Last month the Sunday Sun reported how several readers had received letters claiming they had won a jackpot of £700,000, from El Gordo, the official Spanish lottery.
But the mailshot was actually from a promotions company using the El Gordo trademark.
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