I got some snail mail the other day which was a little more elaborate than the usual junk mail. It started with the usual I may be a winner but it had a little electronic piece which had a tab you had to pull. When you pulled it a number lit up in the window. You then had a box below which you had to scratch off and guess what, I was a winner! I was not fooled by the winner thing, but I did wonder how much it cost them to make these things and how many people would actually believe this? I get that it is getting harder and harder to get people to bite on this kind of stuff, but every week on the news someone still gets taken by a scammer. This isn’t per say a scam, just a, win a trip kind of thing where they would probably try and sell me a condo or time share somewhere, but I am not going to take the free night in Vegas, and I certainly didn’t win the Prius shown in the picture. I know these places track the rate of contact from each one of these. My question is how many people will call them just because of the twinkling lights? I would like to think we are smarter than that, my guess is, we are not!
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