The Secrets Since 2013 at least, promising people special entry into a secret society. Dallas Texas

My elderly landlord received a 10-page letter from a PO Box in Dallas, TX, dated September 26, 2015, beginning with the injunction  "IMPORTANT: Do not show this letter to anyone".

The letter claimed that "they" had been "watching" my landlord for 3 years (although apparently they had not been watching him very closely; they seriously misspelled his name). The letter offered him membership in "the super-secret, ultra-exclusive, and all-powerful Society." It went on to offer him a 1216-page, "gold-embossed secret manuscript" free of charge purporting to contain "Secrets" that "the richest, most powerful people on earth have used...to obtain huge sums of money, everlasting love, fame and incredible happiness since the founding of this great country 238 [sic] years ago." [If the writer is referring to the year 1776, s/he is in error; 1776 was 239 years ago, not 238.]

Page after page is devoted to extolling the virtues of the secret organization, its power, and the power of the secret manuscript to change people's lives; it also reiterates again and again my landlord's superior character and worthiness for indoctrination into the Society. While admitting the offer seems too good to be true, the letter assures my landlord that the offer is legitimate, and that he has nothing to lose by taking the Society up on its offer and returning a form with the self-enclosed envelope addressed to the PO Box in Dallas.

At NO TIME does the letter ask for ANY money whatsoever. The only demand it makes is that my landlord mail or fax the attached form by October 2nd to take the Society up on its offer. The letter is signed "Anonymous." The fax number given is 214-367-3877.

This is by no means the only scam letter my landlord has received. He is obviously on many shared scammer mailing lists. But this scam is unusual in that it asks for no money or personal information. Now of course one cannot know what they will ask for down the line. 

In looking back through Ripoff Report's archives, there is reference to The Secrets scam dating back to 2013.