> Saw BBC breakfast news bringing your cause to light. So glad

> you have done this as the people falling for this need protecting. My

> mother in law is at present "obsessed" with Readers Digest and more

> worringly various small catalogues based overseas selling cheap crap she

> doesn't need with the promise she'll win thousands which she has been

> doing over many years - the house is full of stuff she doesn't need - she

> even orders the same things over and over again all over priced - vitamin

> pills, soap, hand creams, hose adaptors, spray garden nozels, cleaning

> products galore which are all just stuffed in cupboards. Although we now

> know she has been doing this for many years (Biotonics, Healthy Life, Star

> Shopping, to name a few) recently she is obsessed and spends all day just

> going through papers which she won't part with or even throw away

> envelopes, writing letters, apologising for not replying sooner, calling

> these people her friends, getting angry with us for try!

> ing to stop her. She even now says people are coming in the house (she

> spreads papers every where and then forgets and thinks other people have

> done it). For a week she wouldn't go out the house and hardly eats and

> lost lots of weight as she is so pre occupied with this post. I have even

> found photocopies of her passport (god knows what she was going doing that

> for). We have been removing papers and catalogues so at least there isn't

> so much stuff for her to wade through (she probably spends about £30-60 a

> month. Sometimes you think you are getting through to her that it is

> rubbish then the next week another parcel arrives with more envelopes and

> you are back to square one. Hope the publicity you have had helps the

> cause - the poster is a great idea. Wish you lots of support.

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