desert_rose...
This is just an online verison of a similar scam which
has been perpetrated via snail-mail for years. It is
really *not* a drawing, as they boldly state:
"THIS IS NOT A PRIZE DRAW".
Instead, they simply assign you a prize.
Here's how they work, why they're legal and why you
should avoid them like the plague:
Notice the sentence which reads "You have been assigned
a parcel...or a check...or other merchandise item...see
...below".
In order to be legal, they must indeed assign every item
on the list to some recipient, however they are free to
assign as many as they like to the cheapest item on the
list, which is usually a piece of junk jewelry made to
sound expensive. In this case, it is the "ruby and opal
24K gold necklace". If you check you number against
their list, here:
https://www.icmtcorp.com/weborder/findoffer.htm
you will likely discover this to be the case.
What you won't realize until you receive it is that gold,
ruby and opal can be used to define color as well as
gemstones of value. What you would receive is a necklace
which is colored like 24K gold (or, if they're exceptionally
honest, a necklace that is actually 24K gold-plated, but
so thin as to be almost invisible), with stones that are
ruby and opal in color, but made of glass, or perhaps
actual chips of poor quality ruby and opal which are
essentially worthless.
After a sufficient number of people have paid them $39.95
for a $2 necklace, they can afford to comply with the law
and assign some people to win the high-dollar items, and
might even do so, but you would expect to see unsolicited
testimonials of such a wonderful occurrence on the web.
Instead, what you find are people reporting icmtcorp as
the scam it is, on various forums:
See the post here by lucidmind, in response to funnybone's
post above it, about IMAC:
http://www.lottalottos.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=538&whichpage=2
See desertrat's post on this page of the same forum
(he was a mailman for 19 years and saw these constantly):
http://www.lottalottos.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=538&whichpage=4
And I speak as well from experience, since I, as a young
man (lo, those many years ago) bought into a similar
scam by regular mail, and ended up with a cheap jade chip.
Also, I would not click on the link to remove yourself from
their mailing list, as typically these companies *may*, in
fact, take you off their list, but will then sell your
address to as many other scam artists as possible, which
results in even more offers of a similar type, as well as
different types of offers.
I have an elderly friend whose personal sense of integrity
prevents him from seeing that if he responds to such
offers in regular mail, saying "I don't want anything to
do with your scam", based on the warnings I gave him,
they will simply take the response as proof that a person
lives at that address, and sell his contact information
to other scammers. As a result he is now overwhelmed with
an incredible number of such offers on a daily basis.
It works the same with email.
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