Hi

We keep getting mailshots from a company called Sheffield Prize Register (part of Prize Register UK), telling us we've won this, that and the other.

Naturally there is a premium rate phone number to call (in Ross On Wye) at £1.60 a minute, where we will be allocated a prize number and find out what we've won.

Is anyone else getting these????

that's an old one

bin it :suspect:

Just bin or delete spam.

Done. Thanks.

Perhaps we ought to have a 'scams' thread on here to help vulnerable people??? There seem to be so many going around at the moment.

there's a multitude of them if you 'search' ;)

Does it sound too good to be true?

Therein lies your answer. As I keep telling my young lad when he gets the "winning" scratchcards in the newspaper- if you've bought nowt, you've won nowt!

Well anything that tells you you've won a competition or lottery that you've not entered is very obviously spam. If they say your name has been randomly picked out then think: no one gives prizes away for the sake of it. iYou get either emails, telephone messages or junk mail

I got one the other day, it said that my number had been "randomly" picked by some bloke called Ernie and mentioned a bond I was in as a premium member (how original) and I had won the jackpot.

It was a freephone number so I got to ring them up and call them all a bunch of b*****s and told them to take me off their list and stop pestering me...... Jeez some people.!! :rant:

They even went as far as telling me they were a government agency!!! I ought to report them.