Nearly Fell For A Scam Today.

[Caran]

Had a sealed envelope in my magazine today. Opened it and it was from
Yourlottoservice. Offering me 10 free lottery numbers for a number of weeks.
Almost did it but thought I'll just google it to be on the safe side.
The t & c explained you have to join "their syndicate" and pay a substantial monthly sum then you get these extra free numbers.
Thank goodness for good old google!

[tonyav]

Thats one I haven't heard of, Caran. Yep thank goodness for good old google.

[Mamyalynne]

Well done , the old 'too good to be true' adage stands you in good stead.

[marval]

I haven't heard of that one Caran, good thing you checked it out first.

[sherrardk]

They phoned me today, v convincing.

[Caran]

Sher did they mention the paying part of it?

[sherrardk]

I didn’t get to that part, I let them do a bit of spiel and then said the line was bad and hung up - something about 10 free lines, joining a syndicate of 150 people and v specific about a start date that they kept repeating.

[Buenchico]

If you get your lottery tickets via their syndicate then
(a) you've no way of knowing how many other people are in the syndicate and
(b) Camelot aren't obliged to pay out at all, even if all your numbers come up:
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/experts/article-5798303/Lotto-offer-clear-bet-loser-TONY-HETHERINGTON-investigates.html