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From: Amitabh Shah <shah@cs.cornell.edu>
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Subject: Sleazy Credit Card Ad
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Date: 14 Mar 90 02:21:49 GMT
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In the continuing saga of late night sleazy ads, here's one I saw
recently.  This was from a bank called American National something. It
showed a guy complaining about how other banks would not give him a
credit card because he had a lack of credit history. Then this bank
gave him one ("All you have to do is to open an account with them.",
yeah!) without any hassle.

At the end was a 900 number to call the bank for a credit application,
only 10$ per call.


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