Oh yes
I have just received a letter from "St. James's place wealth management plc" inviting me to one of three free seminars/lunches held in a couple of VERY nice hotels as a way of telling me about ways to "shield my heirs against inheritance tax" and "secure my savings against inflation and taxation".*

I am 21 and a nearly penniless student. I really, really want to show up to the seminar, sleep through the talk and stuff myself at the meal. "Yeshh *munch munch* it's a *chomp* very interesting series of *drink drink drink* propositions. Maybe in fifty years". The only catch is that the talks are being held when I'm 400 miles away. Anyone in the Suffolk area want to go?



*My first thought was "pyramid scheme" and my dad's was "timeshare". As soon as my mum heard who had been writing to me, she couldn't stop laughing.
( MatJ LOOK, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 21:50, 10 replies)

Heh!
Pretty sure my dad got a couple of free holidays from this sort of thing. Never bought anything, mind.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 22:30, closed)

Whoop! Whoop!
Scam alert!
( evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 22:31, closed)

Where are they then?
I can sleep through a seminar.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 28 Feb 2012, 22:38, closed)

Le Talbooth, Dedham, and The Swan, Lavenham.

( MatJ LOOK, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 0:51, closed)

Sounds like a good gig, your lot do like to chelp on about your taxes being used for other people's benefit.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 23:32, closed)

Huh?
I'm a student. I don't pay (income) tax.
( MatJ LOOK, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 0:54, closed)

Oh but you will.
Oh. But you will...
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Wed 29 Feb 2012, 9:48, closed)

I always wonder where people dig up
the mailing lists for these things.

I regularly get a letter from Jack Barclay, the Rolls Royce dealers, informing me of new models and inviting me to special presentations at their dealerships.

I drive a Vauxhall. The nearest I've ever got to a Roller is when I swapped a drive round Regents park in one for a go on my motorbike with a mate who was a chauffeur.
(username failed moderation, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 8:59, closed)

Not sure that its necessarily idiotic that a company that obtained your name, wouldnt also have your age.
(Joopiter, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 9:19, closed)

st james place is a real company, it's not scam
they are very good, they're a really highly rated firm of financial advisers. I think Lloyds are the majority shareholders but they are FTSE 250 listed.

Of course, bollocks knows why they are contacting you. Unless you're named on some portfolio your parents have?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 11:34, closed)