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From: warren@ihnss.UUCP (Warren Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Congratulations! you have just won one of the following . . .
Message-ID: <1760@ihnss.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Oct-83 11:33:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihnss.1760
Posted: Fri Oct 21 11:33:37 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Oct-83 02:59:16 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
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We must get an average of 1-2 of these kinds of letters a week. 
They offer us a guarantee that we have won one of the N prizes
listed and all we have to do is visit some sort of resort operation
and hear a sales pitch.  We have never responded to these things
because the resorts are usually out of the way, we have no interest
in buying, and there is an obvious booby prize that we would win
that is of no particular interest.  Recently, however, I have seen a
couple that looked more interesting (the prizes, not the operations
giving them out.)  One promissed one of the following:

1983 Chevette
Home Copier
Color TV
Microwave Oven
$100
VCR

I don't see the booby prize off hand.

What I am interested in is whether people out in netland have any
good experiences with these kinds of operations, or any suggestions
as to what the catch is in the above list.  If the claimed valuable
prize in all of these operations were worth anything, I could
probably make a living from visiting resorts an selling the proceeds!

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	Warren Montgomery
	ihnss!warren
	IH x2494