# Do companies still send unsolicited credit cards?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-companies-still-send-unsolicited-credit-cards/370049>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 24, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-companies-still-send-unsolicited-credit-cards/370049 "2006-08-24T15:37:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-companies-still-send-unsolicited-credit-cards/370049/41 "2006-08-26T00:03:35Z")

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[QUOTE=MissGypsy]  
Odd that it happened today, but I received two credit cards in the mail, for two different former residents. I opened them before I looked at the names on the envelopes, but sure enough, two pre-approved credit cards for two different people who haven’t lived here for at least two years. I shredded them, but I snickered for a moment about the Caribbean vacation we could have taken on their credit. (Also, I know that our landlord is suing one former tenant for $60,000, so that dude’s credit is about to be screwed beyond belief.)  
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I received an unsolicited credit card from First National yesterday. The fine print let me know that I now had $4000 credit with some catalogue that I had never heard of, and that the card was only good for purchases with that catalogue. But it said that the number was real, had my name on the card, and that all I had to do to activate it was call a phone number.

Weird if you ask me.

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