101st Grand Prize Draw
Well, after thirty-three years, Reader's Digest have finally caught up with me.

Today I recieved my first ever fake cheque for £250,000.

Hell knows how they found me - only Inland Revenue and DWP know I live here, so someone's on the make.

But that's besides the point. What I want to know is, is it worth me responding for the chance to win money? Or is it just an excuse to send me even more junk mail?

Run my life for me, Off Topic!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 15:38, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Well I suspect you'll let yourself in for a lot more junk...
But if you've got a spare hour, have a look at this and see if you fancy fighting the banks...

www.goodthink.com/writing/view_stories.cfm?id=11&page_id=2
( Fireflier La la la la, not listening on, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 15:47, Reply)

what a lucky bastard
!

I could so do with a hundred grand
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 16:02, Reply)

Gah
Why don't I be like that and take chances :(
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 16:38, Reply)

Try and cash it anyway

( Malaka omdz, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 16:38, Reply)

I wouldn't bother
otherwise you'll spend the best part of 18 months accepting a free book, sending unwanted books back, returning further 'next stage' prize draw slips, receiving further special offers, forgetting to cancel subscriptions you inadvertantly signed up to, and all for fuck all...

/May have been through it himself after thinking 'why not? How hard can it be?

More trouble than it's bloody worth if you ask me.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 5 Jan 2009, 17:27, Reply)

@fireflier
I've just spent the last 30 minutes going through your links on matched betting. Seems so easy, yet there are warnings all over the forums you link to that it isn't easy.. What do I need to watch out for here? I did A-level Further Maths a few years ago and this matched betting just seems like really simple statistics, easily computable with a simple spreadsheet. The headache is setting up all the internet accounts and managing them, no? But really, £50 a week looks very, very possible for just messing around on the computer..

*waits for someone to tell him how ridiculous such an idea is really*
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 17:28, Reply)

DG
That's what I thought. It's so cunningly packaged that the average mug could easily fall for it.

But I'm an above-average mug... so in the recycling it goes :)

@ bored and horny - gaz fireflier - his numbers speak for themselves.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 17:43, Reply)

try and bank the cheque
it's worth a punt for 250K
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 20:11, Reply)

Hmm
They obviously got wise to that one:

"This 'cheque' is for illustration purposes only and cannot be used for transaction between any bank, building society or any other account."

Made me dig through the recycling to take a look, though :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 20:32, Reply)

piss
if i get this sort of thing, i bundle it all back into the prepaid envelope with 'no thanks' scrawled all over it in marker pen' and post it back to them, making sure i include the bit with my name and address on it, and the envelope it all originally came in.

and i register with the mail preference service
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Mon 5 Jan 2009, 21:25, Reply)