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- From: thait@col.hp.com (Thai Tran)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.vietnamese
- Subject: Re: 10 million dollar richer
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:52:44 GMT
- Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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- <PDLBH@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- > some friends of mine received a big envelope from
- > the Publisher's Clearing House, declaring that they had
- > won 10 million dollars. According to your experiences,
- > is this a hoax or not? Did anyone actually win this
- > sweeptake?
- > Le Duc
-
- I got one too about six months ago stating that I won 10 million
- dollars. After reading some of the materials in the envelope for about
- 30 seconds, I tossed everything in the trash...
-
- Maybe your friend got a different kind of envelope, but on mine, the fine
- lines at the bottom stated that I was one of the eight or ten finalists
- chosen for the "Grand Prize" drawing and the number they assigned to me was
- something like "XYZW891001AB". I figured that the odds that the computer -
- or what ever they were using to generate the winning number - to come up
- with this same set of characters and numbers I had was one in several
- trillions...
-
- I don't mine P.C.H. sending me all this stuff once in awhile, because
- occasionally, I subscribe to some of their magazines; I find that they
- have some of the best subscription rates around. When I feel like
- winning a million dollars, I go out and buy myself a lotto ticket... 8-)
-
- Thai
-