TRADING Standards bosses are warning people not to fall for letters promising Euro lottery prizes.
Complaints have been made over mail that invites recipients to hand over their bank details after suggesting they have won massive amounts of cash.
But West Yorkshire Trading Standards said if you receive such a letter it should be put in the bin.
A spokesman said: "Lotteries work by generating a prize fund through the sale of tickets. Any mailing that declares you are a randomly chosen winner of a lottery draw you did not enter is bogus.
"Legitimate prize draws do not require winners to pay fees to obtain their winnings or to mail bank account details or identification documents."
Beverley Millard, of Stansfield Grange, Sowerby Bridge, received one of the letters claiming she had won £500,000 in a computer ballot drawn from 3,000,000 people worldwide.
The letter included a form for her to fax her bank account details to an address in London.
She said: "I'm so concerned because it's so very convincing. I think that if something is too good to be true, it is.
"The fact they have printed photographs and names at the bottom of the letter is a new twist. I have never seen that before.
"Hopefully we can prevent other elderly people form buying into it."
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