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WELL DONE! - YOU'RE A
WINNER! JUST READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW TO SEE WHAT YOU'VE WON |
We've
all seen it. Unsolicited mail dropping through the letter box,
dozens of e-mails clogging up the in-box and even telephone calls in
the
middle of Coronation Street informing us that today is your turn to be
a
guaranteed winner. Brilliant - a shiny new car, an exotic holiday
or even up to £100,000 in cash, maybe more. We'd love to win all of this great stuff, but how do you claim it and how many people have actually recieved these unsolicited prizes? Simply claim your guaranteed prize by following the instructions. (But remember 'up to' £100,000 could actually mean just one penny since one penny is (quite correctly) UP TO £100,000). Just ring the telephone number provided - easy, except that it's a premium rate line and calls cost £1.50 a minute and will take seven minutes to complete. Or to take delivery of your expensive new car, TV, DVD, holiday or what have you, just send a cheque, right now, for just 10, 20 or maybe 50 quid to cover delivery or insurance costs etc. Sounds reasonable - NOT! Even worse, to get your guaranteed £100,000 you just need to send a cheque for (let's say) £50 to cover banking and transfer charges (or some such nonsense) and you'll be sent the £100,00 fund; Tell you what mate, why don't you just deduct the fifty quid from the prize and send me the balance. Yeah, right, it'll never happen because it doesn't exist. So if you're not the winner, who is? All this unsolicited junk mail is sent out by scam merchants to make some easy money, they're hoping that it will be your money that will be easy to rake in, or to get some valuable details, such as bank account or credit card numbers so that they can swindle you further - maybe even Identity Theft is a consideration these days. Millions of people fall for these scams every year, and it's only due to ignorance, stupidity and mostly the greed of the people who respond and enter these 'competitions' by phoning the £1.50 per minute 0906 numbers, by sending cheques or handing over bank details that these crooks earn a rich living at (potentially) your expence. "Oh but it's only £1.50 per minute and look what I could win, it must be worth a go." Trust me there is NO guaranteed prize, No money and No car, so why waste money lining someone elses pockets even if it is 'only' £1.50 being stolen from your pocket? What you'll get, at most, is a dodgy carriage clock or a worthless voucher for a mountaineering holiday in Norfolk. So what have you won here? Well you have won AT LEAST £1.50, because I won't ask you to ring my premium rate line. You could also have won up to £100, since I am not about to ask you to send me a cheque for £100 to claim your (non existent) prize. More importantly you have won some free time. The free time that you have won will not, thankfully, be in the form of a holiday (a voucher for a skiing break in Iraq, for example) but will be in the form of real time gained from the hours saved each year by NOT sifting though and reading all this junk that falls though the letter box and is e-mailed to the In-Tray. To claim your prize of FREE time just BIN this junk and DELETE these useless (and potentially damaging and virus ridden) E-mails and simply hang up on fools that ring you (during Coronation Street) advising you of the good news - what ever it is. Did you ask them to call you? No. Then slam the phone down! I know that you already posess the best prize of all, but if you have misplaced it, or for some reason have forgotten to use it recently, the best prize of all is the wisdom of remembering the phrase "JUST DON'T DO IT" before you are tempted to even look at one of these pointless scams. THEREFORE: YOU ARE
A WINNER!
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For more consumer advice and help tune to ED DOOLAN on BBC WM across The Midlands weekdays 10am to 1am live on the internet and on 95.6 FM - also via DAB digital radio and Telewest cable. Click HERE to find out more! Many other BBC local radio stations also carry consumer advice programmes. This page was inspired by the endless amounts of junk that drops through the door and by the sensible advice consistently offered by Ed Doolan to just ignore it. |