In article , Reuters News Wire A lottery company had to call the police to convince an elderly German
woman that she had hit the jackpot, police said Tuesday.
Most of the lottery mail is obviously a scam because they claim you won a lottery that you never actually entered. If this woman won something, she must have really purchased a lottery ticket, in which case it's reasonable to assume that the jackpot is real.
Also, the scams ask the "winner" to pay some fee to secure their winnings. A real lottery would not, so there's nothing to worry about in those mails.
Barry Margolin, snipped-for-privacy@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA
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