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From: vcl@mimas.UUCP (Victor C. Limary)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: BRU advertisement??
Keywords: fraud,mail,bru
Message-ID: <iVHqy1w163w@mimas.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 91 06:14:53 GMT
References: <102467@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Organization: Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque NM
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cgwst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Gray Watson) writes:

> Howdy:
> I got a letter in the mail the other day from an unknown friend Jeff.  The
> note is written on a copied page of the Denver Computer Journal.  The copy
> shows an advertisement for BRU in the middle of an "article" about the backup
> utility.
> 
> The note reads: 'CALL THESE GUYS, THIS IS A GREAT PRODUCT -- JEFF' and at the
> bottom on the page: 'P.S. HAVING A GREAT TIME IN COLORADO. SEE YOU SOON!'.
> 
> Now, I know very few Jeffs and:
> a) they would never send me a letter like this,
> b) I've checked with most of them and none of them have sent me this thing.
> c) their handwriting is a lot worse than this,
> 
> Other interested info:
> a) the Fergus Inn Suites Hotel (P.O. Box 9009, Boulder, Colorado 80301) from
>    which the letter was mailed does not exist according to directory assistan
>    and a guy I talked to in Boulder last night
> b) The Denver Computer Journal does not exist according to directory assistan
>    although I do admit that the Bolder guy thought he may have heard of it
> c) the "article" surrounding the BRU add looks like it was written by a BRU
>    employee (right out of a sales brochure).
> 
> Now, I could be wrong so I am not going to flame BRU til I'm sure.
> Anyone in Boulder know of the Fergis Inn Suites Hotel?
> Anyone in Denver heard of the Denver Computer Journal?  The add comes from Pa
>   19 (no date).
> Anyone else get one of these things?
> 
> I have already asked for mail-fraud paperwork from my local postmaster.  We
> will see what happens.
> 
> gray
> 
> p.s. If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm pissed off!!!

Although I haven't gotten *THIS* mailing, I have gotten something 
similar, but the product is an anti-agin cream.  Upon first glance, I was 
utterly confused as to why I received it.  I was only about 16 years old 
then, and I didn't think that I had any wrinkles.  Then a few days later, 
I talked with my uncle.  He received an exact replica of the mailing, and 
he was only about 22 then.  I don't know what these people are up to, but 
I'd report them to the BBB.

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