A SPANISH lottery con which cost a Blackburn man £25,000 topped an Office of Fair Trading chart of Britain's biggest tricks.
Today, trading standards bosses re-issued warnings about the El Gordo lottery con after receiving reports bogus letters were in circulation again.
Con artists trick money out of people in the UK by writing to them to congratulate them on their win on El Gordo, one of Europe's largest lotteries which is based in Spain.
The letter, which has nothing to do with the offical organisers of El Gordo, instructs the recipitants to send off cheques for thousands of pounds to cover the cost of tax and administration fees' so their prize can be released.
In 2004, a Blackburn man lost £25,000.
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