* Crossposted from: Local Messages (General) on The HUB           LOC
I found the following on a NCOA web site.  My sister had a copy of the 
memo on FAA letterhead (she works at the San Antonio Airport).
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INSURANCE HOAX - 1996
Announcements are again appearing, as they do every year between November 
and February, declaring that recent legislation by Congress has made 
available a dividend payment to everyone who served in the military and were 
covered by SGLI (Servicemen's Group Life Insurance). The announcement advises 
all veterans to write to SGLI at a PO Box in Philadelphia providing a copy 
of their DD Form 214 and requesting "the dividend payment". The information 
appears literally as faxed announcements, articles published by well 
intentioned organizations for the benefit of their veteran members, community 
bulletin announcements and shared between friends and organizations. This 
hoax takes on a life of its own each year and creates an avalanche of mail 
heaped upon the Department of Veterans Affairs Insurance Center. Any 
announcement advising of a dividend on SGLI should automatically be suspect 
as SGLI is a "group" term life insurance policy only payable upon death of an 
insured member of the group. Like all questionable advertising: "If it sounds 
to good to be true, it probably is..."
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