The trading standards team at Pembrokeshire County Council are warning residents about another spate of hoax letters regarding the Spanish Lottery.

The letters state that the recipient has won a prize in either the Spanish Sweepstake Lottery or the Loteria Primitiva.

This is the second time this year that trading standards have issued a warning over the letters this year - after several more county residents received letters from Madrid and bearing Euro stamps.

The letters ask the recipient to send their bank details and other personal information to an address in Spain. Some of the letters also state that the lottery organisers will take a 'commission'. Nigel Watts, trading standards manager with Pembrokeshire County Council, said: "If you receive an unexpected prize draw or lottery win and it seems too good to be true, then it probably is. The best advice is to treat it as other junk mail and consign it to the bin."