Oxfordshire Trading Standards are campaigning to make people in that county aware of scams such as bogus lotteries. Apparently a pensioner in that county lost his thirty thousand pound savings to a scam.
Sadly, a lot of people in this country lose money to the national lottery - founded by John Major - and yet that lottery is entirely legal. The national lottery is not the same as a lottery scam, because with the national lottery you do actually stand a chance of winning some money. Nevertheless most people lose money, and there is no legal cap on how much you can spend on lottery tickets, and so there is also no legal cap on how much you can lose.
The Labour government which followed on from John Major's Conservative government further relaxed the gambling laws, and the present ConDem government has not yet seen fit to protect the people of this country with new legislation.
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