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Woman gets 220 lbs. of junk mail

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VERWOOD, England, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- An elderly Englishwoman received 220 pounds of junk mail in six months after responding to a letter from an unscrupulous company.

The Verwood woman received about 25 letters a day, for a total of about 5,000 letters she considered junk mail, The Times of London reported Saturday.

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The newspaper said most of the mail claimed the woman, who is in her 80s, had won foreign lotteries. Other letters sent to her promised a cure for cancer.

The letters have been taken by local authorities.

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