Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: vu0425@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Sanjay Hiranandani) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: McDonalds 900 Scam Message-ID: <12618@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 25 Sep 90 13:41:50 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Sanjay Hiranandani Organization: SUNY-Binghamton Computer Center Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 680, Message 2 of 10 In article <12535@accuvax.nwu.edu> Jeremy Grodberg writes: >You can get a "McMillions on NBC" sweepstakes ticket for free, no >purchase necessary, at any participating McDonalds. Then you watch >for the winning number on NBC during a specified time. Although the >number on my ticket is nine digits, I suspect that there are only a >few numbers actually given out for a given time period. Anyway, they >don't tell you what you have won, and to claim your prize you have to >call a 900 number (75 cents per call) within about 20 hours. There is >no way to claim your prize other than to call this 900 number. There >is another 900 number (also 75 cents per call) which you can call to >find out what the winning number is. What's even scummier is that the ticket said that the numbers would be announced between 8-8:30pm EDT on NBC. However my local TV station that carries NBC didn't showit till 11:30. When I turned on my TV at 8, I didn't see anything about it till 8:15 ... when I saw a commercial that said it would be announced at 11:00 pm. At 11 pm nothing happened except the 11 pm WICZ 40 newscast. between 11 and 11:30 nothing was even mentioned about it during the commercial breaks. At 11:30, they briefly announced the number.