A CHARD man is warning people to beware a Spanish lottery scam after a letter dropped through his door asking for his bank details.

Bob McCarty, of The Hollies, received a letter postmarked Malaga, Spain, last Friday, declaring he had won $615,810 on EuroMillones, despite not having bought a ticket.

The letter said the money had been deposited with a security company and that information including bank account details would be needed to claim it.

Mr McCarty said: "I've seen reports of this sort of thing before and I realised straightaway it was a scam.

"I was going to bin it but then I realised it was asking for bank details and so I wanted to warn other people about it."

The scam has been reported as widely as Australia and Malaysia, and surfaced in Chard last November when concerned resident Joan Butler brought it to the News' attention.