[UA] Occult Hoaxes (old thread with multiple titles--you all know what I'm talking about)

[Timothy Ferguson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Royal Minister of Stuff" <yokeltania at yahoo.com>

> In fact, if someone sends you something in the mail
> and you haven't specifically purchased that item, it
> is considered "promotional material" and you can keep
> it.

Not so, this is only for -unsolicited items- in most places (I don't know
where you are and you may have an unusual local law.)

> One that I read about recently is using recorded phone
> agreements to scare old people into thinking they'd
> accidentally signed a contract "verbally."  Sales
> agents will play back bits of a conversation they've
> had with the victim and then say things like "didn't
> you say that ma'am?"  and "this sounds like a promise
> to me."  This is real boiler room stuff, but it's the
> kind of tactic more and more call centers are moving
> toward.

You -can- make contracts verbally, so what's your point?  The signed
contract is just a record of the verbal contract to provide evidence of its
existence, or a substitute when the individuals can't be together.





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