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December 15, 2010

BBC News and Sport Search feeds discontinued – please update your feed reader

Filed under: Lottery Scams — admin @ 1:05 pm

The BBC News and Sport Search feeds have been discontinued, but we now offer feeds containing results from across BBC Online, including BBC iPlayer, blogs, news and sport.

We recommend you update your feed reader to use the feed linked from one of these search results pages: Winning the lottery, Pixie Lott, National Lottery Commission, Heritage Lottery Fund, Postcode lottery, Lotte Lenya, Lottie Dod or RAF Scampton, or use the autosuggest system on the BBC Online search box to find a search results page for the subject you are interested in and subscribe to the feed for that page.

Please note that only search results pages branded 'Search+' have feeds available.

February 8, 2010

Islanders target of lottery scam

Filed under: Lottery Scams — admin @ 1:38 pm
Police in Jersey are advising residents of a lottery scam which asks for "winners" to send bank details.

January 22, 2010

Fraud ‘costs the UK £30bn a year’

Filed under: Lottery Scams — admin @ 10:47 am
Fraud - including scams, online theft, insurance cheats and tax fraud - costs the UK £30bn a year, an official estimate says.

January 18, 2010

OAP loses £24,000 in lotto scam

Filed under: Lottery Scams — admin @ 9:43 am
An elderly woman from the Aberdeen area is cheated out of £24,000 in a Euromillions lottery scam, police have said.

December 26, 2009

Most read stories of the year: 50 to 41

Filed under: Lottery Scams — admin @ 3:17 pm
Look-back at what readers of the BBC Scotland news website have been reading this year.
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