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Farid Farid

INSANE: Mail order firm misled customers about winning prizes - The Real Truth

Consumers paid for products they might not have otherwise, Gina Cass-Gottlieb says the ACCC alleges. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

More than $20,000 in cash, jewellery and iPads are among prizes unwitting customers were duped into thinking they had won from a mail-order firm, the consumer watchdog claims.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is suing Magnamail and its Sydney-based parent company Direct Group in the Federal Court for attention-grabbing promotional materials it alleges were misleading.

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