CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Have you recently received a text message claiming to be from a lottery winner offering to share their jackpot fortune with you?

If you have, chances are it’s a scam, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

Experts recommend you do not respond. Consumer Investigator Caroline Hicks set out to find out why.

An example of one text scam currently going around claims to be from an actual jackpot winner that says: “I’m donating $1 million cash and a brand new car to 20 random individuals, if you got this text your number was selected randomly after an automated machine spin ball.”

We tried calling the number, and got an automated message saying it could not be completed as dialed.

Next, we followed the instructions to send a text to “the managing director” with “

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