User talk:Soulmanlondon

--Soulmanlondon (discuss • contribs) 01:29, 1 April 2013 (UTC)Have you received any news that you've won??? a "guaranteed" £10,000 prize? Did your great fortune come with a mini-catalogue telling you to spend a minimum of £25 on miracle slimming cures, elixirs and vitamins, and then your prize will be sent to you? If so, chuck it out now. The "prize draws" break just about every advertising and marketing rule in the book. The Office of Fair Trading has taken legal action. The Advertising Standards Authority tells consumers the best place for them is the recycling bin. BBC's Watchdog has exposed one of the companies - Biotonic - and last week, Esther Rantzen's Old Dogs, New Tricks programme was on the trail of another operator. Yet the draws continue to pour through our letterboxes, targeting elderly consumers and earning the operators millions of pounds every month. One Guardian Money reader told us how, on a recent visit to his elderly father's home in west London, he discovered his father had lost hundreds of pounds replying to the draws in the belief he had won. Unopened bottles of pills and elixirs lay around the house.