Cash Alert

Cash Alert LLC (CAL) claims time is running out for you to be a potential winner of $1,100,000.

If you do not respond and send your $30 now you will be placed on the noncompliant recipients list, according to Cash Alert.

Cash Alert maintains its letter is not junk mail or a form letter.

So how does it explain the fact that seventeen other companies are plugging the same scam, use the same terms and conditions, and have similar mailing addresses in Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada?

The Fort Langley Mob are:

This is a form letter which has gone out to countless other Western Australians.

And the only thing you will get for your $30 delivery fee is junk in the form of a list of competitions to enter. They call it a monetary compendium.

All the letters state the same thing, that the company carefully examines, acquires and makes available full entry directives for known cash and prizes equalling or exceeding stated amounts.

You’ll probably find you are ineligible to enter some competitions. Some prize giveaways are run by legitimate retailers wanting to promote their business. Other competitions are conducted by direct marketing companies to get your personal information for mailing lists. Always ask yourself whether the prize is worth you being on yet another mailing list!

A WA consumer, who sent off their money to Carter Hammond and Pierce, received a cheap photocopied booklet listing web-based sweepstake and prize giveaways. The consumer was ineligible to enter the sweepstake offering $1 million but could be in the running to win a bottle of intestinal cleanser! Second prize was $5 off a bottle of intestinal cleanser!

The companies have no direct connection with National sponsors (who run the competitions) and only provide information. The National sponsors may alter promotional offers without the company’s knowledge.

From time to time, they (Cash Alert) will send you additional offers.

Cash Alert claims: “You’ll be treated like the first class important client you are to us”. Sure!

WA ScamNet has seen plenty of mass mailouts by con artists operating different scams, but these eighteen take the cake. Don’t they think people will notice that all the letters are all the same and destined for adjacent PO Boxes!

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Page last updated on: Monday, 26 June 2006

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