A man pretended to have won £250,000 and the National Lottery’s reply was perfect

Jonny Smith was clearly joking about his win in what looks like a spoof of the woman who claimed her ticket had gone through the wash.

The reply from the National Lottery in full:

“Thank you for your query.

We have investigated this image for you, we can tell that the ‘small fire’ that the scratchcard was involved with, was very selective and clearly didn’t like the barcodes, we suggest that you completely fire proof your home to avoid such instances from happening again.

It may also be handy if you no longer use ink pens and buy pencils from now on to avoid another ink spillage.

Furthermore, looking at the image very closely it has come to our attention that the extra £250,000 on the top right hand corner has been placed carefully, however we recommend that you invest in some proper glue.

To conclude, we won’t be sending you a direct message requesting your details as this won’t be necessary, we would like to thank you for your time to contact us, we wish you every success in the future with our games – and maybe, just maybe one day you will be able to shop at Waitrose.

If you are unhappy with the outcome you can email us on: [email protected] for further investigation.”