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P L E A S E T A K E A M I N U T E T O R E A D T H I S !!!!!!!!!!! I have recently found a way to make a lot of money in a short period of time with the large investment of $6.60. Yes, you read correctly. I thought this was just a scam at first, but I tried it. I am here to tell you people this....IT WORKS!!!!!! If you think this is just another hoax, or you do not wish to participate, then thank you for reading as far as you did. You are the only one who will lose here. If you are still reading, then grab a pen and paper because I am fixing to tell you in two easy steps how to make your money problems dissappear. First thing you need to do is write down the 5 names and addresses listed below. Once you finish this, I will continue to tell you how to make your very own small fortune. Here we go: Dave Joaquim 138 Andover St. Wilmington, MA. 01887-1241 Chad Harwell PO Box 531 Lebanon, TX. 37088 Jeremy Patty 272 Big Sky Dr. St. Charles, MO. 63304 B.J. Smith 4989 South State Rd. 39 Clayton, IN. 46118 J.W. Holmes PO Box 7031 Alexandria, LA. 71306 Now that you have these written down, get 5 pieces of paper and copy this same list to each of those 5 pieces of paper and write at the bottom of each page "Please add me to your mailing list", and add your name and address underneath. Now place a one dollar bill (cash) inside each piece of paper and place them in individual envelopes addressed to the above 5 people. Please put the dollar bill inside the paper so it will not show through the envelope. Mail these 5 envelopes with the paper and dollar bill enclosed in each, to the above 5 people. STEP ONE IS COMPLETE!!!!!!!! STEP TWO: Make a new list of the names above, but this time take the top name off the list, and add your name and address to the bottom. This will make Chad Harwell the first name on your new list, and yours the last. Now, add the instructions (as I am doing here) to the bottom of the page and send it to 200 people, or post it to 200 newsgroups. HINT!!!!!! The more people you send this to, or the more newsgroups you post this to, the more people who will see it. Therefore, the better potential of YOU to see more money. That is it! Two very simple, legal, quick steps to making you money. Please dont try to cheat anybody, because somebody will in turn CHEAT YOU!!! It will happen. This is a great way for us all to help one another out, and it will only cost you a few buck. What have you got to lose? Just give it a try! I have this one question for you all.....Have you ever spent such a small amount of money on the possibility of such a great return? THIS CAN AND WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE IF YOU JUST GIVE IT A CHANCE!!!!!!

P L E A S E T A K E A M I N U T E T O R E A D T H I S!!!!!!!!!! I have recently found a way to make a lot of money in a short period of time with the large investment of $6.60. Yes, you read correctly. I thought this was just a scam at first, but I tried it. I am here to tell you people....THIS WORKS!!!!! If you think this is just another hoax, or you do not wish to participate, then thank you for reading as far as you did. You are the only one who will lose here. If you are still reading, then grab a pen and paper because I am fixing to tell you in two easy steps how to make you money problems dissappear. First thing you need to do is write down the 5 names and addresses listed below. Once you finish this, I will continue to tell you how to make your very own small fortune. Here we go: Dave Joaquim 138 Andover St. Wilmington, MA. 01887-1241 Chad Harwell PO Box 531 Lebanon, TX. 37088 Jeremy Patty 272 Big Sky Dr. St. Charles, MO. 63304 B.J. Smith 4989 South State Rd. 39 Clayton, IN. 46118 J.W. Holmes PO Box 7031 Alexandria, LA. 71306 Now that you have written these down, get 5 pieces of paper and copy this same list to each of the 5 pieces of paper and write at the bottom of each page "Please add me to your mailing list", and include your name and address underneath. Now place a one dollar bill (cash) inside each piece of paper and place them each in individual envelopes addressed to the above 5 people. Please put the dollar bill inside the paper so it will not show through the envelope. We would not want to tempt our postal workers would we? Mail each of these envelopes, with the paper and dollar bill enclosed in each. STEP ONE IS COMPLETE!!!!!!! STEP TWO: Make a new list of the people above, but this time take the top name off the list and add your name and address to the bottom. This will make Chad Harwell the first person on your new list, and yours the last. Now add the instructions (as I am doing here) to the bottom of the page and send this to 200 people, or post it to 200 newsgroups. HINT!!!!! The more people you send this to, or the more newsgroups you post this to, the more people who will see it. Therefore, the better potential YOU have to see more money. That is it!!!! Two very simple, legal, quick steps to making you money. Please dont try to cheat anybody, because somebody in turn will CHEAT YOU!!!!! It will happen. This is just a great way for us all to help one another out. Just give it a try. What have you got to lose? I have this one question for you all.....Have you ever spent such a small amount of money on the possibility of such a great return? THIS CAN AND WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE IF YOU JUST GIVE IT A CHANCE!!!!!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaghhhh!! Just when we thought this scam was dying out, they go and raise it from $5 to $6.60. Are there still people left who fall for this ILLEGAL and idiotic garbage? Please keep this hokum out of newgroups where intelligent people hang out. Maybe you should try posting it to alt.pyramid.idiot.suckers. Maybe someone over there will fall for it. P.S. to everyone else: sorry for the crosspost, but it takes a crosspost to counter a crosspost like this that has no real subject other than "I'm an idiot, and I hope more idiots fall for my idiot scam." ACE wrote: > I have recently found a way to make a lot of money in a short period of > time with the large investment of $6.60. Yes, you read correctly. I > thought this was just a scam at first, but I tried it. I am here to > tell you people....THIS WORKS!!!!! If you think this is just another > hoax, or you do not wish to participate, then thank you for reading as > far as you did. You are the only one who will lose here. If you are Ah, but at least none of us will have to go to jail. > First thing you need to do is write down the 5 names and addresses > listed below. Once you finish this, I will continue to tell you how to > make your very own small fortune. Here we go: Hopefully, there is a lawyer or two on the list, as you will need one. -- Mike Hess --m...@iquest.net-- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. --Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams--

How many of us have seen this WAY TOO MUCH? In article <32ECF5...@rest.net> ACE <a...@rest.net> writes: >P L E A S E T A K E A M I N U T E T O R E A D T H I S >!!!!!!!!!!! > I have recently found a way to make a lot of money in a short period of >time with the large investment of $6.60. Yes, you read correctly. I >thought this was just a scam at first, but I tried it. I am here to [pyramid scam snipped] You can send a letter to the postmaster@scammers-site, but many of us would like to see these jerks stop, or at least go to jail. I talked to the local (USA) legal authorities about this today. - The US Postal Service cannot do anything, since the offer was not sent through the US Mail. If you *do* get an offer through the mail, take it (opened) to your local post office. They will forward it to the Postal Inspector, who can prosecute. - The FBI can prosecute them, if there is a victim. So if you have sent your $5 or $6.60 to one of these scams, you can then turn them over to the FBI (the FBI is listed in the 'phone book, generally). If you did not send $, you can print a copy of the solicitation out and mail it to the FBI. They will put it on file, and wait for a complaint from someone who actually fell for it. What this means, of course, is that you can mail the crooks some $, and then immediately turn them over to the FBI. (I asked the FBI if this would work, and they said yes.) So the next time you see a pyramid scam, you *can* do something (if the scammers are in the US). -- Tom Doehne

In article <5cos7l$h...@reuter.cse.ogi.edu>, doe...@church.cse.ogi.edu says... [ quoted text not captured ] Ahhhhh, then you must be one of the scammers since you *ARE* advocating the mailing of the $$$$. Why would anyone in their right mind send $$ to what they KNOW to be a pyramid scheme? -- Brad Mettee PC HotShots, Inc. Baltimore, MD TAFG, STTNG & TOM - Play Pinball, it's good for your soul! * finger bme...@clark.net for PGP Key *

In article <5cos7l$h...@reuter.cse.ogi.edu>, Thomas Doehne <doe...@church.cse.ogi.edu> wrote: >How many of us have seen this WAY TOO MUCH? > >In article <32ECF5...@rest.net> ACE <a...@rest.net> writes: >>P L E A S E T A K E A M I N U T E T O R E A D T H I S >>!!!!!!!!!!! >[pyramid scam snipped] > >You can send a letter to the postmaster@scammers-site, but many of >us would like to see these jerks stop, or at least go to jail. This one has stopped at least, or so I hope. He could fake his address, but he could not fake these lines: NNTP-Posting-Host: user1-44.timetrend.com Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:37:19 -0800 and this was enough for postm...@timetrend.com to find out who he was. /Bengt -- Bengt Oehman, studying Computer | d9...@efd.lth.se or m8...@abc.se Engineering at Lund Institute of | Technology, Sweden | * Friend of LAPHROAIG *

d9...@efd.lth.se (Bengt Oehman) writes: >This one has stopped at least, or so I hope. He could fake his >address, but he could not fake these lines: >NNTP-Posting-Host: user1-44.timetrend.com >Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:37:19 -0800 >and this was enough for postm...@timetrend.com to find out >who he was. Or, you could take the information about the people in the "mailing list" presented in the body and plug that information into the Yahoo! People Search Yahoo! will return the address and home phone number of the individuals in question (our poster from timetrend was, not surprisingly, the person at the end of the list). This information isn't useful by itself, but it can help if the people who maintain the account of the would-be felon are lazy (which is obviously not the case with TimeTrend - I'm just pointing this information out for general consumption). -- L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.sc.edu) | Refuse Novacaine - http://www.math.sc.edu/cgi-bin/sjohnson/home | Transcend Dental Medication! Graphics Specialist and V:tES Rulemonger. |

In article <5cos7l$h...@reuter.cse.ogi.edu>, doe...@church.cse.ogi.edu (Thomas Doehne) wrote: > You can send a letter to the postmaster@scammers-site, but many of > us would like to see these jerks stop, or at least go to jail. > > I talked to the local (USA) legal authorities about this today. > - The US Postal Service cannot do anything, since the offer > was not sent through the US Mail. If you *do* get an offer > through the mail, take it (opened) to your local post office. > They will forward it to the Postal Inspector, who can prosecute. Let me first commend to your tender mercies the "MMF Hall of Humiliation" website, <http://www.clark.net/pub/rolf/mmf/>, whereon is enshrined a plethora of e-mail and web spam lusers who have tried (universally unsuccessfully) to perpetrate such "Make Money Fast" scams as these. The site's author also recommends a few techniques for making the perps' lives less than comfortable. And for those of you in Los Estados Unidos del Norte America, the United States Postal Service's website contains excellent guidance on identifying and reporting telemarketing fraud and pyramid schemes. (See <http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/fonetact.htm>, <http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/usc18/mailfr.htm>, and <http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/statutes.htm> for some specifics, or use the search engine on their site to find "fraud"; it's VERY complete.) Similar statutes and remedies are available in most countries, so check around to see what YOU can do to stop fraud on the internet. Moreover, if the MMF spammer *is* collecting some funds, don't you think your country's tax collection authorities ought to be told about it? -- Charles Keith-Stanley were...@wizards.com Cyberspace Coordinator lia...@wizards.com Wizards of the Coast, Inc. http://www.wizards.com

> Moreover, if the MMF spammer *is* collecting some funds, don't you think > your country's tax collection authorities ought to be told about it? Heh, that's the only crime our judicial system is serious about anymore. Wasn't Al Capone caught with tax evasion instead of the other crap he pulled? -- -Joel Hardy (de...@inficad.com, not _de...@inficad.com) (formerly de...@fiestanet.com) "...Windows For Repeat Offenders..." -- Dave Barry In Cyberspace

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Thanks for the anti-spam info. Curt Adams (curt...@aol.com)

In article <5cq7o4$m...@clarknet.clark.net>, bme...@pchotshots.comž says... > t. > , What this means, of course, is that you can mail the .crooks some $, and then immediately turn them over to the .FBI. (I asked the FBI if this would work, and they said yes.) . .So the next time you see a pyramid scam, you *can* do something .(if the scammers are in the US). . .Ahhhhh, then you must be one of the scammers since you *ARE* advocating .the mailing of the $$$$. Why would anyone in their right mind send $$ to what .they KNOW to be a pyramid scheme? . .-- .Brad Mettee >PC HotShots, Inc. >Baltimore, MD > >TAFG, STTNG & TOM - Play Pinball, it's good for your soul! >* finger bme...@clark.net for PGP Key * > Well, if it only costs me $5 to get rid of a spammer, it seems like money welll spent. Although, before I did this, I would check with state and national authorities, cause in this state, participation in these schemes is as illegal as organization unless you were lead to believe it was legal. Ian Huntley "I only have a warlordable sig cause of the stupid INN configuration" Check my homepage at http://www.tybee.net/~ihuntley...yes, I know it sucks Ignore everything you see here! Yadda Yadda Yadda

Ian Huntley <ihun...@biztrac.com> wrote in article <5ctah8$i...@news.netusa.net>... > In article <5cq7o4$m...@clarknet.clark.net>, > bme...@pchotshots.comž says... > . > .Ahhhhh, then you must be one of the scammers since you *ARE* advocating > .the mailing of the $$$$. Why would anyone in their right mind send $$ to what > .they KNOW to be a pyramid scheme? > > Well, if it only costs me $5 to get rid of a spammer, it seems like money welll > spent. Although, before I did this, I would check with state and national > authorities, cause in this state, participation in these schemes is as illegal > as organization unless you were lead to believe it was legal. The flaw in your assumption is that your $5 will actually get rid of a spammer, or otherwise further your FBI entrapment scenario. Report it to the FBI, let *them* hand over the $5. Sure, it's still "your tax money at work," but if they do the entrapment it's a helluva lot more likely that they'll do the busting. Cheers, -- Brandon J. Van Every | Free3d: old code never dies! :-) | Starter code for GNU Copyleft projects. DEC Graphics & Multimedia | Windows NT Alpha OpenGL | vane...@blarg.net www.blarg.net/~vanevery

Shouldm't idiot chain letters like this go to alt.crap.spam? GET THIS JUNK OFF THE r.g.t-c.m:tg GROUPS! While I'm at it, the whining about t1, t2, t3.14159, etc. has got to stop! We need a new group: r.g.t-c.m:tg.whining! Walter Freeman (hsvh...@aspire.cs.uah.edu) Huntsville High 2304 Billie Watkins Huntsville, AL 35801 5324870