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Lottery, sweepstake or prize-draw fraud happens after fraudsters contact you to tell you you’ve won a large sum of money in an international lottery, sweepstake or other prize draw.

You’re told via email or letter that you have won a large amount of money on an overseas or online lottery. Spanish, Canadian and Australian lotteries are among the most common.

So that you can process the payment of your winnings, it asks you to contact someone who claims to be an official at the lottery company. You are warned to keep your good luck a secret and, if you don’t respond quickly, you won’t be able to claim your winnings.

However, either the lottery doesn’t exist or you’ve been contacted by fraudsters misusing the name of a genuine lottery. But you can be sure there is no prize money for you to win. If you respond to the fraudster, you’ll be asked to supply personal information and copies of official documents, such as your passport, as proof of identity. The fraudsters can then use this information to steal your identity.

Once you have provided your personal information, the fraudsters will ask you to pay various fees – for example: taxes, legal fees, banking fees etc. – so that they can release your non-existent winnings.

Morning all

Mel, I was going to say the same as AnnG. If you have entered a competition and your notification of a prize has come from the organisers of that, it should be OK though I can’t think why they would need some sort of text. If this “prize” was out of the blue be very, very careful. It is probably a scam.

Sorry to hear the sciatica is still bad Island and hope the physio helps.

I’m in the middle of cleaning the bathrooms and just stopped for a coffee so I’d better get on. Might bbl

Just going to post and there was a heck of a bang. It was just to my side and frightened the life out of me. A pigeon had flown into the patio doors. It flew away again so seems OK but I have a perfect outline on the glass now.

Mel please tell us more about the prize that you have won. were you expecting to win anything? that is have you entered a competition? Are you sure it is not a scam?

Island. can you tell me more about the stuffed pepper. what did you stuff it with and what temp and how long did you cook it for?

Ah, so sorry about the B sciatica. I to hope the physio is of some help for you it is obviously pulling you down. What pain killers can you take? I notice they have a combined ibfrofen and parasetamol (sp) out now. when T had his very bad back he was advised to take both paracetamol and Ibrofen pills together but he wouldn't but now it seems they were right and there is now a combined pill. :-S

Morning girls,

4 degrees here and I have to get up the postvan again.

I have won a prize and have to text to tele-gram something but don't know how to do it!! Can anyone help?

Morning Ann and all

Ann perhaps your good sleep was down to your easy day - relaxed?

I'm still troubled by sciatica which has really worn me down. I have an appt for physio next week, not holding my breath, I think I need exorcism.

Just wanted to let you air fryers know - I did a stuffed pepper in mine, very nice too.

Good morning all. I slept really well. Woke at 2.15 but didn't get up for the loo as I went back to sleep then didn't wake until 6am very strange as I had a relatively easy day yesterday but good to have a a decent sleep.
3 degrees here and fairly bright out there and, as far as I can see, no frost.

Nothing planned except I need to get hold of the man who serviced my dishwasher as I need him to look at the tumble drier which is making a strange noise. I left a message yesterday but he has not got back to me yet. It took a while before, he works on his own and is not very 'techy'.

6 degrees here now but I don't know what it was erlier as I have been up the caravan doing a bit of sorting of the stuff oh had up there. I brought down my angle poise lamp I lent him and a box with dividers in it I can use for miniatures and a big long spirit level measuring things which can go in the garage. I cleared off a table in there and am going to see if it will go next to mine in the lounge. It may be too big so I would'nt be able to get out the patio door but we will see once I have measured it.

Have all of you got gas of some sort layed on? cos I hav'nt but had a letter from edf saying I am going to get another £200 !!

Evening everyone

A short post today as I don't really have anything to tell you. It has been a cold, very overcast day with rain in the air. At the moment my computer is saying that it is 6 degrees and sunny. What planet is it on? There has been no sun at all today and it is now starting to get dark anyway. It certainly feels colder than 6 degrees.

I've been busy all day but not doing anything interesting. It's been a day of household jobs and ironing. I cooked our main meal at lunchtime and made some bread in the breadmaker. I've been on the computer for the last couple of hours but I haven't got any heating on in the study. My body isn't too bad as I put my fluffy dressing gown on but my hands are like blocks of ice so I'm now off downstairs to try and warm up a bit.

Mel Edwards only ever affects babies and mostly they don't suffer as they don't live, even if not aborted they would only live at most a matter of days. It is the families that suffer of course not knowing 'why?' As there is no answer to that it being a chromosome problem. They would probably suffer if managed to be kept alive which is why the majority are reluctantly aborted. My grandson was about 24/5 weeks when aborted and the parents were able to hold him. I do have a photo of him swaddled in a shawl, a very tiny perfect looking baby. terrible disease and heart breaking.

Pinch and a punch and all that.

Suns just popped out.

Morning Anng and all,

Not as nice here as yesterdays morning was as its all cloudy and pc says mostly cloudy 6 degrees feels more like 3 degrees. I shan't be staying out there for long today.

I had never heard of Edward's decease either. A terrible thing for anyone let alone a child.

After truddeling about after that man doing the pond the other day he came so early I had'nt got my socks on and just shoved my feet into my wellie. I now have a very very sore heal, unless its the socks I put on yesterday??

Good morning all 5 degrees here and still gloomy and damp looking but I am not going out today.

Mel doesn't Dan have to work to a tight schedule like the Tesco delivery people? Or are you last on the list. My driver is always polite and talks while I take the stuff in to my container but never stops long which I am glad about because if they chatted to all my stuff would never be on time.

Well. horses on the lawn, that is different to the usual wild life I suppose. did they leave evidence of where they had been? good for the garden.

Mandy Until we had it in the family I had never heard of Edwards syndrome. It is such a sad disease as, even if it is not aborted the outcome is still the same. Sad that there doesn't seem to have been any break through in the last 20 years.

Went up th epost van first thing and he was'nt there again. I was expecting the shopping so started to come home and had to give way to guess what ? yes the post van so I turned the car around and went back to the village. Then I had to wait while he plugged it in and then a wait for it to log on and then he let me in after putting all the cones out in a very small space as there were two big white vans parked where he usually parks. Anyway sent my parcel off and bought a stamp for the letter to the roofer with his money.

Came home and I had fed all the girls so decided to have a go at some more minitures. Then the shopping turned up with my favorite driver, Young Dan, and we chatted for quite a while and he came up the caravan to see the fishig chair which I said he could have if he wanted it. It has gotten very sun bleached out the front of the caravaan and I'd rather he could put it to some use than it sit there and rot away cos I don't know where else to put it.

Got one very small toby jug painted after wipiog down the shopping and then I was hungry. I had beans on toast with cheese on top and it ws very nice.

turned the pond filter off to my pond so I could feed the fish and checked the big filter to oh's pond. where the man has worked on the pipes inthere and cobbled bit together its leaking a bit on the wooden floor and he had'nt put the box back over the outside pipes that return the water to the pond but kindly Dan did that for me. I told you he was a nice fella.

Put the well pump on to go into my pond as the man had pumpoed some water out of it and the return was making a noise. Checked i had turned off the light in the big filter shed and then came indoors only to glance out of the window and I had 4 horses and a donkey on my front lawns. I knew they were from the big house so tried to ring but did'nt get through properly so came to the pc to make sure I was ringing the right number and looked out the window and took a couple of pics and Ralph and Lisa were coming through the arch with a bucket of food and some halters and rope. Of course they did'nt have enough so I looked for some but by the time I had some they were walking them all out of the garden so I got in the car and followed them incase any decided to go into anyone elses gardens. we got them all back in their enclosure and then Ralph took me to show me where the barn owl lives. Its in the portico the church side of the big house.

So that was my day and now I am hungry again. A nice piece of rump steak enough for two nights and I am going to have tomatoes, sweet corn and a jacket tato with it tonight and new pots tomorrow.

Gosh hav'nt I rattled on!!!!!!! love to all <3

Evening all,

It's been a chilly old day here ,I nipped up town and got a few bits and I could feel light sleet on my face and you could see tiny white specks on my coat, it's been like that off and on for most of the day .
Anng I went with a list but still came home with some bits I didn't know I wanted :-D
There's some lovely baby bits that are reasonably priced they grow so fast I can't see any point in buying expensive things they will only wear for two or three weeks .
It was market day today and I could see they had most salad bits ,I did notice though that they had cut the cucumbers in half and they were 1.50 a half :-0 peppers were also 1.50 so the prices have shot up .

I watch Eastenders Anng ,that's sad you lost your grandson with Edwards syndrome, I think they are handling the story line very well ,I had never heard of it before but its a sad watch .

Lots of football on tonight :-( so it will be something of the planner .

I went in to town and, although it was a bit dull and drizzly it was not too cold because of the shelter from the buildings. I had a good shop around and got the things I wanted on my list. Plus a couple of things i didn't have on the list. I was mainly shopping for baby clothes. Knowing that outfits and expensive clothes will be bought by its grandma I looked for cheaper stuff that will hopefully fit when it is born and will be grown out of fairly quickly plus a soft cuddly rabbit baby socks, muslin squares etc.

My greatest success was, when in m&S I found a till where there were no queues as ot was lunch time so not many people around and the nice assistant downloaded the Sparks App for me. I have had more than one go downloading and each time it needed so much info and kept sending me round in circles. T and I always had a sparks card but since he died I have not managed to get one. She didn't seem to need quite so much info and I know it has worked as I used it on another till and then had an email after I got home.

I don't know why the boards have got even more quiet Vera. I think people have stopped putting up new threads so it has maybe got boring. But I remember when this thread was buzzing and now it too is very quiet. The trouble is once people stop posting they find other things to do so seem to manage without coming on the boards at all. such a pity.

I forgot to say AnnG that it was so sad to hear of the loss of your grandson to Edwards Syndrome. I remember googling it a while ago though I can't remember where I heard of it. I feel for any family affected by it.

Afternoon all

The threads, including this one, seem to be getting quieter and quieter. Perhaps the cold has turned everyone to stone. It's certainly another bitter cold day here again. The weather app is telling me that it is 7 degrees but feels like 3. Well, when I was out this morning it felt more like -3 :-( It's been thick cloud all day as well - not a tiny sight of the yellow stuff.

There's not much happening here today. I had a chiropody appointment this morning and came back with a toe support on my right foot. What with the inserts I have to use and now this toe support I'll be lucky if I can get my shoes on soon.

I washed a load of bedding before I went out and then while I was at the chiropodist OH ran the vacuum through for me so that was a help. Since lunch I've been paying a couple of bills online and doing a bit of paperwork and filing and now I am waiting for Tesco who are due between 3 and 4 pm. There are 3 subs but all perfectly acceptable and nothing missing. I've even got some ordinary salad tomatoes and some baby plum toms. There weren't any a couple of days ago so there must have been a delivery.

Nothing else of interest happening here. I hope you're all having a good day whatever you are doing.

good morning all, overslept this morning until 0840 but I an up and dressed now not sure what I am doing, might go into town it is 5 degrees so not too cold. And so far it is dry but a bit misty.

Morning all,

Bright and sunny after a frost this morning and pc says 4 degrees and cloudy.

Shopping comes today and he is 9 stops away.

Just having a coffee and then I shall start my day.

I had 4 eggs again yesterday,

Anyone watch East Enders. Edwards Syndrome was what we lost our 5th grandson from almost a mirror of East Enders. Knew nothing about it before that. I have to say the programme writers handled it very well.