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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: another sweepstakes
Message-ID: <558@pucc-h>
Date: Fri, 24-Feb-84 15:03:50 EST
Article-I.D.: pucc-h.558
Posted: Fri Feb 24 15:03:50 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 07:56:08 EST
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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I received a postcard from the "Prize Headquarters" of a firm I know I've
heard of in some connection--Carter & Van Peel.  Text follows:

Congratulations....

You have won a prize in the Carter & Van Peel $25,000.00 publicity
sweepstakes.  Return this card at once to claim your prize.  There is no
entry fee.  Nothing to buy.  The prize you have won is already yours.

Please enclose $1 to cover the cost of processing your name and mailing your
award notification to you.  This $1 is voluntary.  You do not have to send it,
but we would appreciate it.

Your official award notification will arrive within the next few days to tell
you what your prize is and how to collect it.  Mail this card with your name
and address and $1 to .

You must claim your prize before March 9, 1984.  Unclaimed prizes will not
be awarded.  Return this card promptly.

--- End of text

I always distrust such things.  If it's a publicity sweepstakes, will there
not be pressure from them to buy some product of theirs?  How in the world did
they get my name for their mailing list?  Why should I pay $1 for a cut in
only $25000, i.e. for what is likely to be quite a small prize?

Anyone else had any experience with this bunch?
-- 
-- Jeff Sargent
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