A friend at work had one of those telephone calls where 'you have definitely 
won one of these major prizes if you ring this premium rate lines.....' etc.
She decided to ring the number and was told that she has won 7000 - has 
anyone else ever heard of any winners before ? I have told her to wait and 
see and not spend the money until it has actually arrives.What does anyone 
else think?
Thanks in advance
Ann

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I hope it's true, but tell her don't spend it until she can hold the cash!

Mike

"Ann Chapman" <ann[REMOVE THIS]@de130eg.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:3dseo5F9qgU1@individual.net...

>A friend at work had one of those telephone calls where 'you have definitely 
> won one of these major prizes if you ring this premium rate lines.....' etc.
> She decided to ring the number and was told that she has won £7000 - has 
> anyone else ever heard of any winners before ? I have told her to wait and 
> see and not spend the money until it has actually arrives.What does anyone 
> else think?
> Thanks in advance
> Ann
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If you haven't entered the competition how can you win it? is what I always say. After all the watchdog type warnings I'd think this is nothing more than another sacm where the £7k turns out to be useless vouchers or the like.

BizzyB


Ann Chapman <ann[REMOVE THIS]@de130eg.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:3dseo5F9qgU1@individual.net...
A friend at work had one of those telephone calls where 'you have definitely 
won one of these major prizes if you ring this premium rate lines.....' etc.
She decided to ring the number and was told that she has won £7000 - has 
anyone else ever heard of any winners before ? I have told her to wait and 
see and not spend the money until it has actually arrives.What does anyone 
else think?
Thanks in advance
Ann

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On Wed, 4 May 2005 18:23:25 +0100, "Ann Chapman" <ann[REMOVE
THIS]@de130eg.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:


>A friend at work had one of those telephone calls where 'you have definitely 
>won one of these major prizes if you ring this premium rate lines.....' etc.
>She decided to ring the number and was told that she has won 7000 - has 
>anyone else ever heard of any winners before ? I have told her to wait and 
>see and not spend the money until it has actually arrives.What does anyone 
>else think?


ICSTIS fined 16 companies a total of 1.3 million  in March for
telling people they had big wins (average 5000) in these promotions -
the prizes came as vouchers that were practically worthless . 500 off
a 25,000 kitchen, 100 off a holiday when two people book a minimum
of 1,500 per head, that sort of thing all adding up to thousands of
pounds worth but only if you spend hundreds of thousands of pounds. 

ICSTIS have never recorded an instance of a single genuine winner from
an unsolicited phone call offering a prize if you ring a premium
number, even though they have asked hundreds of companies to provide
evidence of winners.

Tell her not only not to spend anything, but not even  to crack open a
celebration bottle of wine - she can't afford it now she's paid for
the phone call.

Jane
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Thanks for all the advice - didn't think it would come to anything but hoped 
to be proved wrong
Thanks again
Ann

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>If you haven't entered the competition how can you win it? is what I
>always say. After all the watchdog type warnings I'd think this is
>nothing more than another sacm where the 7k turns out to be useless
>vouchers or the like.


7000 pound off the price of a timeshare, perhaps?
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