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Inside Out meets the victims of a mail order scam who believed they were the sole winner of cheques worth thousands of pounds.

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They received letters from Hampshire-based company Emery of Romsey, congratulating them on winning cash prizes.

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The parent company behind the letters is Agence de Marketing Appliqu茅, based in Belgium, but it relies on Emery to process the orders.

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Emery collects the cheques and sends out the products - it also disposes of the desperate letters from confused customers.

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The company is run by father and son Nick and David Gebbett. Inside Out's Jon Cuthill asked David Gebbett for his response to the allegations.

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The National Fraud Intelligence Unit says it is keen to take action against third parties who work with companies that operate to deceive members of the public.

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on the 麻豆约拍 News website.

Joan Watkins lives in a London council flat on a small pension. She can ill afford the cosmetics and other mail order goods she has been buying from a mail order company.

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But when the letters started arriving in the post offering her amazing cash prizes she thought she was only a small purchase away from a fortune.

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"I'm careful really because I've only got my pension and I thought, well it's a name and they've got an address and they are sending the stuff, so how can it be a scam?

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"For years we've been trying to save for a mortgage but we didn't get that far and I thought this would help, the boys could get their new car out of it."

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on the 麻豆约拍 News website.