Maybe they're protecting fraud?

[vakkotaur]

An article arrived in the mail today. It was clearly advertising trying hard to not look like advertising. It wasn't in a normal envelope but in a pull-the-perforated-edge off thing. It was made to look as if it had been stamped "Check enclosed" (no check I've received in the mail has needed such advertisement, nor desired it.) The check was for $10. The program it would have started would have cost $11.99 per month. The program? So-called "Fraud Protection." Don't they see the irony in this?

Comments

[rillaspins.livejournal.com]

I got a "Do not bend-X ray enclosed" large envelope. WTF? Yeah, it got me to open it. It was an advertisement for a auto dealership printed on xray film. Blah

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Dear Auto Dealership,

It is plain by your blowing your advertising budget on a film or something approximating it and then sending it out marked, "Do not bend. X-ray enclosed" that you must be overcharging for your products and are also willing to trick your potential customers. If I ever was a potential customer of yours, that is no longer the case. I do not do business with people who show such a lack of ethics, and your demonstration of overspending does not help your case.

Wishing you a spectacular transmission failure on downtown I-94 at anything-but-rush hour,
Annoyed_Non-customer

[chakawolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got something like that. Mine was a check for $5.00 that, when cashed, signed you up for some program. That's why I have a shredder.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Then there's the envelope I got with the fake credit-card-shaped scuff marks printed on!