Listen Up: No One Gets Rich Quick Through Mail
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › August 06, 2004
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Americans love bargains. Better than bargains, they love something for nothing, but of course there's no such thing.
Yet all too frequently, people leave their common sense in cold storage and wind up losing money. A current example of this is the willingness of some to sit down and write a check when they get announcements by e-mail that the ex-daughter-in-law of the former Nigerian oil minister's late sister's nephew will send them a gazillion dollars if only they first send her $10,000.See the full content of this document
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Listen Up: No One Gets Rich Quick Through Mail
Conning the public is big business. In fact, Americans lose about $40 billion a year to bunco men doing business through the mail and over the phone, says Tony Esposito, a Postal Service spokesman. The Postal Service probably will investigate close to 100,000 c...
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