Subject: Re: Make money!

From: "Adrian Gleeson" <[email-masked]>
Date: 26 Nov 1996 10:40:05 GMT

lars westin <[email-masked]> wrote in article
<[email-masked]>...
> THIS IS THE FAIREST MOST HONEST WAY I KNOW TO SHARE THE WEALTH!
> 
> Hello!!
> 
> Would you like to make thousands of dollars, quickly, legally, with NO
> CATCH?  Then keep reading......please take five minutes to read this
> article- it will change your life, just like it did mine.  It's true!
> you can make up to or over $50,000 dollars in 4-6 weeks, maybe sooner! I
> SWEAR I'M NOT LYING TO YOU, AND THIS IS NOT A SCAM!  If you're
> interested, keep reading; if you're not, I apologize for wasting your
> time.
>      Here we go,  A little while back, I was browsing through these
> newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an article similar to
> this that said you could make thousands of dollars in weeks, with only
> an initial investment of $5! So, I thought, "Yeah, right, must be a
> scam".
> but I was curious, like most of us, so I kept reading.  Anyway, it said
> that you send $1 to each of the 5 names and addresses stated in the
> article.  You then place your own name and address in the article  at
> the bottom of the list at #5, and post the article in at least 200
> newsgroups (there are thousands).  No catch, that was it!
>      So after thinking it over, talking to a few people first, I tried
> 
>>BIG SNIP

Flame ON:

These chain letters (or E-mail in this case) really piss me off, I cannot
believe that the senders think that people are so moronic that they would
just send their money out the door to a perfect stranger.  I guess some sad
individuals might think they can get something for nothing, send a few
dollars and get thousands back!  There's no such thing as a free lunch. 
These things ARE scams, some sucker parts with their cash and gets nothing
back.

Please ignore this pile of crap, don't send any money, just ignore it. 
It's bad enough that he spammed 200 newsgroups.

FLAME OFF

Hmm I feel better now, nothing like venting a bit of spleen!

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From: [email-masked] (Fons Adriaensen)
Date: 26 Nov 1996 16:22:25 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> Alan \"Uncle Al\" Schwartz <[email-masked]> writes:

> 
> This message has been sent to [email-masked] and 
> [email-masked] as well as the sender.  Everybody who reads this 
> should in turn send it to those three addresses.  Let us send in 
> THOUSANDS of complaints.  lars westin <[email-masked]> is a spamming 
> bastard.
> 
I informed his postmaster earlier today and received
an answer one hour later.
The problem (newbie) has been dealt with.
No need to attack phosworks.se any more.

-- 
Fons Adriaensen
ALCATEL TELECOM

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From: Alan \"Uncle Al\" Schwartz <[email-masked]>
Date: 26 Nov 1996 15:47:32 GMT

>interested, keep reading; if you're not, I apologize for wasting your

 [100 line snip]

   1) Spamming is unacceptable.  The spam list for this posting is 
sci.anthropology.paleo,sci.anthropology,sci.archaeology.mesoamerican,sci.
astro.amateur,sci.bio.ecology,sci.bio.botany,sci.bio.entomology.lepidopte
ra,sci.bio.entomology.misc,sci.chem,sci.bio.paleontology,sci.bio.misc,sci
classics,sci.chem.analytical,sci.chem.electrochem,sci.crypt,sci.econ

   2) Ponzi pyramid schemes for "creating" wealth are mathematically 
impossible.

   3) Ponzi schemes in the United States, where this was posted, are 
Federal felonies.

GET THIS SPAMMING BASTARD, lars westin <[email-masked]> OFF THE NET!

-- 
Alan "Uncle Al" Schwartz
[email-masked] ("zero" before @)
http://www.ultra.net.au/~wisby/uncleal.htm
 (Toxic URL! Unsafe for children, Democrats, and most mammals)
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"  The Net!

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From: "John K. Taber" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:09:53 -0600

> > THIS IS THE FAIREST MOST HONEST WAY I KNOW TO SHARE THE WEALTH!

[snip]
> just send their money out the door to a perfect stranger. 

It's the senders, in this case purporting to be Lars Westin in Sweden, who
are the morons, not the people. 

Lars Westin, or whoever he is, is a moron who believes people will send
him money. 

Let's hope Sweden, if that's where he is, puts him in prison where he can
suffer the company of other morons.

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