There's always a flow of steady "sign up for your free check" teaser pitches running through the marketplace, trying to catch people who need extra income and don't read the fine print -- and usually there's also something real underneath all that hype, so what's the story this time? Jim Pearce at Personal Finance has a recent ad with the headline that you should "check to see if you qualify" because "a little-known loophole allowed a handful of regular Americans to legally collect over $105,868,000 in bonus cash." Sounds lovely, right? I fed those clues to the Thinkolator, just click below to... |