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If They Only Knew ...

dead cat with credit card offers Our cat, dead for 12 years continues to get credit card offers and military recruitment brochures in the mail. Here's the story.

Shortly after my wife and I got married we got a cat, Lynx. We rescued Lynx from the pound and he was about 7 years old when we got him. Although we've vowed never to have cats again, Lynx was a lot of fun.

Somewhere around 1992 we received our first piece of LynxMail. It was a offer to enroll our "daughter", Lynx, in a beauty contest. We had a really good laugh with it and threw it away. Little did we know that it was just the start of a fifteen year ordeal with LynxMail.

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