Trading Standards are warning islanders of a fake People's Postcode Lottery scam circulating in the Western Isles.
The letter states that you hold the winning ticket in an international lottery.
But in order to claim the substantial monetary prize you have to phone a telephone number and pay a processing fee to lottery “agents” based in London.
Trading Standards advise people to bin the letter.
People's Postcode Lottery scam doing the rounds
6 July 2016