My 90 year old mother received offers to participate in solving puzzles. They were very easy. The company kept sending more and more making them sound as if they were different contests and different twists to each "offer." Bonus this and bonus that for a fee, of course. And if you got something wrong then you could, for a fee, enter into some practices or some such thing. The language in any of the offers and in the conditions that had to be met would have stumped an MIT graduate student. The company sold her name and she got many other offers, many of them from subsidiaries of Cash America which is the parent compagny, I think. There were days in which my mother got as many as 60 pieces of mail. She spent in excess of $8,000 on these "games." There was no clear end date for the game. And all kinds of other obfuscations. I don't need to go into the gory details.
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