This is an excellent article with some very useful links .
I'm going to email it to alot of my friends - esp those I know that find it hard to resist " you have won £xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, just sent £12.95 admin fee to claim. " Its always a small sum that they weigh up losing against the chance of this really being true - despite all the warnings as you can read many many people get suckered in every years.


http://www.fool.co.uk/news/your-money/2 ... txt0010011

it contains a link to phonepayplus, an excellent advisory service with number checking facilities
http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/

and a link to the Office of fair trading.
http://www.oft.gov.uk/oft_at_work/consu ... ves/scams/