You Have Won!
In the ’90s my friend got all of these letters saying he was a part of a contest, and he just had to keep mailing letters in to enter the “drawing.”
The wording they put in the later letters was something like “you’ve made it to the final round” and “congratulations, we are now prepared to write you a check for $10,000!”
All he had to do was call a 1-900 number that charged $2 a minute. It took him about 10 minutes to navigate the automated menus once they told him he was a winner and it ended with “And you have won… (drum roll)… ONE DOLLAR!”
Story credit: Reddit / dougiebgood