> Jessica's storey is very similar to my mother in law who is 86

> years old. She receives between 20 and 30 letters a day. We live a long

> distance from her and she has no other children so it is difficult to

> check on her mail. Since we have been telling her not to send money she

> hides these letters in case we see them. It is alright for the Trading

> Standards Officer to tell people to intercept mail but due to the fact

> that we live a long way away we cannot do it and she has no neighbours who

> she is friendly with who could do it. She was in hospital recently and we

> took a whole bag full home. She is convinced that she is going to win

> these large amounts of money and we seem to be unable to stop her. We have

> registered her with the postal preference service but this does not stop

> the ones from abroad. I deplor the fact that we cannot stop these and

> would hope that the Government could find some way of stopping these and

> ideally prosecute them.

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