Just when I’d finally got
myself geared up for a week off, what should arrive in the mail but a lovely
glossy brochure from Cherry Tourism advertising holidays in Asia. Not just
advertising though, but included with the brochure were two scratch and win
tickets for a holiday promotion detailed inside, and lo and behold, what had I
won? 2nd prize of $160,000!
Now, did I get excited? Of
course not. Smelt a rat straight away, even though it was a well disguised rat.
The breakdown of the promotion stated there were two 2nd prizes to
that value, and guess who got the other one? My daughter in law Melanie!! Now
what are the odds of that happening? About a zillion to one I reckon, probably
the same number of other recipients in however many countries who’ve just
received the same piece of mail from somewhere in
I didn’t even bother to check
out how they intended to squeeze the dollars out of me, but Glen thought he’d
see what their devious little plan was, and apparently you had to send $7000
for them to release the funds, but in their favour they were prepared to be oh
so generous and cover half of that so all you had to send was $3500 to receive
your wonderful prize. Isn’t that nice of them.
Makes me wonder what makes
these people tick, but then I guess I’ve never really understood the criminal
mind that has such complete disregard for the honesty and vulnerability of
others. If they’ve gone to such trouble to devise such a plan, supposedly covering
their tracks sufficiently that they won’t get caught, then surely someone somewhere
in their ranks of shady characters should have some actual skills to set up a legitimate
business that makes money legally instead of preying on the unsuspecting ones
who get sucked in by such schemes. I guess in my naivety that’s asking too much.
With the endless emails from
Nigeria over the years fooling people out of their well earned savings, at
least it was interesting to actually receive something in the mail which I can
now pass on to the ACCC who can add them to their list of scam schemes to
investigate.
$160,000 would’ve been
rather nice though, could’ve had a doozy of a holiday with that.
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