BOSTON -- You probably don't know anyone who would pass up a winning lottery ticket, but there are many lotteries that people should stay away from which are nothing more than scams.

NewsCenter 5's Susan Wornick said that you can tell they're scams because they all want you to pay a fee upfront to get your alleged winnings. There's a new generation of lottery scams online.

One comes from the Santa Lucia Security Company in Madrid, Spain. They don't ask you to pay anything to get your winnings, instead they are eager to deposit the money -- supposedly thousands -- right into your bank account. All you have to do is give them all your banking information, like your account number.

Once these people have all that information, what do you think they're going to do with it? They're not going to make you rich. This is not how legitimate lotteries operate, Wornick said.

The Federal Trade Commission has been warning us about lotteries for years. Those circulated nationally via e-mail and fax machines are illegal. There's no international lottery and no Canadian Lottery offering big bucks to people elsewhere.

So, when you get these things, throw them out or hit delete, and for don't ever give a stranger your personal banking information.