I recently received an official-looking envelope in the mail that said "Final Notification" on the outside. It was a bit foreboding, but I didn't receive a first notice, so I didn't get too worried. When I opened it, there was an official-looking ticket, a voucher for $1,600 and a confirmation number. Woohoo! I won!
It said: "Your responsible Financial history has earned you this $1,600.00 travel voucher." I may never know why "Financial" was capitalized. I suppose they thought it was important. That aside, I had just checked my credit report and found it to be squeaky clean, so receiving this gave me a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Ahh, good credit has its rewards. There wasn't any fine print about what I was expected to pay, but I decided to be cautious anyway.
I googled "Ramada Plaza Resorts." The first thing that the search found was Consumer Affairs--not a good sign. Google also found ripoffreport.com and a few other websites that warned me away from my prize. Read and check everything before you jump for something "free." Consumer Affairs (consumeraffairs.com) and the Better Business Bureau (bbb.org) are both good places to check up on companies before you use their services.
--Jennie
They capitalized "Financial" because they obviously think people can be easily fooled and swayed by an inappropriately placed capital letter. Great post, very funny...I think you should do a series on examples of ridiculous spam. Actually, I just heard on Slate's daily podcast that there was a large study done with people from various countries who were asked to reply to every piece of spam they got (not request services) just reply. The amount of spam they got went through the roof--email and paper mail equally increased. Yikes! Just say no to spam! Too bad we aren't Germans--they get about half the amount of spam we do! Anyhoo, nice post JB :)
Hi Sarah--Spam is definitely an issue, if for no other reason than it soaks up so much of a person's time to take care of it, as you well know. ;-) Replying to spam certainly puts a target on your back, but sometimes you can get lambasted without replying. I was getting so many junk blog comments from one post on my personal blog that I finally just deleted the post!
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