Today I received a check for just under $5,000 from an insurance company that said it represented Samsung in a National Sweepstakes, random lottery. I never sign up for anything like that and am always suspicious of these gimicks, but as Samsung is a real and large company, and the check was real, and because of the desparate financial times we all are in, it made me a bit wishful and vulnerable.
This check was drawn on an account with the St Jude Insurance, Inc. I looked them up on line, and they looked to be a real company. Then I Google searched for Samsung lotto sweepstakes, and Bingo, though the names came up differently then St. Jude Insurance, Inc each time, and the dates were different, and the check amounts were off only by less then $10.00 each time, the rest of the story was always identical; Samsung had a National Sweepstake lottery and a computer randomly choose 10 winners to split 1.5 million dollars U.S. Congradulations, you won $150,000, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I don't fully quite know what their gain is from this. But I hope they are caught and imprisioned. They really didn't cause me any harm, but I am sure they have caused harm to someone out there, and I just don't like liars. I don't care that someone thinks they're going to make a monkey out of me. Besides the old adage "if it seems too good to be true, then it probably is", and the fact that I haven't bought any Samsung nor have I entered any sweepstakes, ontop of the fact that my husband pointed out that the grammer in the letter, itself, left a lot to be desired for a legal document.
Unfortunately, we are in a very greedy world. So many don't care about anyone but themself. Becareful. Question things around you. Even those who would want to be your next president and act like they are the answer to everything. Follow no man blindly. The also may be trying to sell you some type of counterfit.
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