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From: wasser@viking.DEC (John A. Wasser)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Junk offers...
Message-ID: <615@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 10:04:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 10:04:01 1985
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> About once per month I get a friendly letter from my mortgage company
> encouraging me to buy mortgage insurance.  Since it looked like junk
> mail, I tended to throw them away.  However, upon recent examination,
> the idea looks like it has some merit.

	I also get such letters (from several companies, not just my
	mortgage holder).  You can be fairly sure that most unsolicited
	insurance offers (or other financial offers) are designed to
	separate a fool from his money.  I throw these offers away as
	they arrive.

		-John A. Wasser

REMEMBER: PLACE YOUR VOTE AGAINST JUNK MAIL!  THROW IT AWAY EARLY AND OFTEN!

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