Monday, December 10, 2007

Seriously, drop the Andy Hagler will win my money bs...

Last April of 2007 it didn't work to tell me that Andy Hagler would win my money from Publishers Clearing House and here we go again, another email telling me:
Dear Lisa Ward:

Right now, Andy Hagler is hoping you don't read this letter.

Why? Because Andy Hagler has already been selected the alternate recipient of prize money that could rightfully be won by you, Lisa Ward in a matter of days.

You see Lisa Ward, there is a real chance the prize entry opportunity you're reading about right now could be selected as the winner of $25,OOO.OO in a very short time (Giveaway #1116).

Last time we discovered how many other people got the same exact email about Andy Hagler, and what I now want to know is, is Andy getting paid to be used like this as a scare tactic?

:-)

11 comments:

Jolly Roger said...

I've been trying to figure out where America's prosperity went, and now I know. That damned Andy has all the money.

Unknown said...

Exactly! I think we need to have a talk with this Andy Hagler...

:-)

kateb said...

That is so funny. I skipped right to the "Dear Lisa Ward" line. Got to the bottom of the letter and thought 'gee, that sounds like Publisher Clearing House'.

When I first sent in the entry (15 years ago maybe) via US mail - I became the proud recipient of roughly 25 pieces of junk mail every day. They sold my information - my first experience with spam. Albeit US mail spam.

The next time was online. If you answer one of their emails or jump from the email to their website this authorizes them to distribute your information.

When I was so stupid as to reply to an EMAIL (somehow thinking this was safer than licking a stamp) from them about 5 years ago I was deluged with spam and worse. Not all of their 'affiliates' are actually nice people.

And I'm obviously not too bright sometimes.

Anonymous said...

Hi,
I just received the email from PCH with Andy Hagler name used too. I found your blog by doing a search of the name.

Unknown said...

It's amazing how many of us will most likely get the same notice about good ol Andy...

:-)

Anonymous said...

I just recieved the Andy Hagler letter also. With all these Andy letters, can anyone do something about this to PCH? Sounds a little illegal somehow.

Anonymous said...

I get heaps of correspondence of this nature - I feel shunned that Andy hasn't dropped me a line

:-(

Robin said...

Have you gotten the "If you don't enter we'll have to stop sending you invitations" letter, yet?

Anonymous said...

They love me , THEY LOVE ME - I'm back in the loop. You don't supppose PCh cruise blogs like this to monitor their "reach"?

Especially pleasing to read Dear Pasty Muncher....

Munch on!

Anonymous said...

They told me to claim or Andy will win. Did they tell you he was from Texas too? Looks like he just won all our money again!!

Anonymous said...

I don't go by Andy anymore but this is me and I haven't seen a plugged nickle. Who is this Andy Hagler and why is he getting all of my money