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Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes

Publishers clearing house, they started in 19 53, and they were a company that used direct mail to sell magazine subscriptions. Starting in the 19 nineties, some states started suing them on the grounds that one accusation was that they implied you had a better chance of winning by buying more magazines. They also sent out lots of mail with, for example, you won in giant block letters on the front to try to get you to open it. Theres like as cameat wer it walkers through the scam exactly where tit work? An it's and it's something people might kind of remember.

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