Subject: Re: $$$$ $50,000 for the New Year $$$$

From: Mike <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 17:54:18 -0500

FraiT wrote:
> 
> $$$$ $50,000 for the New Year $$$$
> 
> Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life.
> 
> The Internet has grown tremendously. It doubles in size every 4 months. think
> about it. You see those 'Make.Money.Fast' posts more and more.
> That's ... because it WORKS !  So I thought, all those new users might
> make it work. And I decided to try it out, a few months ago. Besides,
> whats $5.00, I spend more than that in the morning on my way to work
> on coffee and cigs for the day. So I sent in my money and posted.Everyone was
> calling it a scam, but there are SO many new users from AOL, N
> 
> Well, two weeks later, I began recieving bucks in the mail!  I
> couldn't believe it! Not just a little, I mean big bucks!  At first only a few
> hundred dollars, then a week later, a couple of thousand, the
> By the end of the fourth week, I had recieved nearly $47,000.00. It came
> from all over the world. And every bit of it perfectly legal and on
> the up and up. I've been able to pay off all my bills and still had
> enough left over for a nice vacation for me and my family.
> 
> Not only does it work for me, it works for other folks as well. Markus
> Valppu says he made $57,883 in four weeks. Dave Manning claims he
> made $53,664 in the same amount of time. Dan Shepstone says it was only
> $17,000 for him. Do I know these folks? No, but when I read how they say they
> did it, it made sense to me. Enough sense that I'm taking a si
> 
> STEP 1.
> 
> Invest your $5 by writing your name and address on five seperate
> pieces of paper along with the words: "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST."
> (In this way, you're not just sending a dollar to someone; you're paying
> for a legitimate service.) Fold a $1 bill inside each paper, and mail them by
> standard U. S. Mail to the following five addresses:
> 
>  1-Faroon Khan
>      12343 77A Avenue
>      Surrey, BC V3W2W9
> 
>  2-Hoffman Eric
>      3150 Riviere-Cachee
>      Boisbriand, PQ
>      Canada
>      J7H 1A3
> 
>  3-Stuart Koch
>      Connolly Hall Box C115
>      501 E. St. Joseph
>      Rapid City, SD 57701-3995
> 
>  4-Karen Lundgren
>      3889 Kencrest Ave.
>      Halifax, NS
>      Canada
>      B3K 3L4
> 
>  5-Koen Hermkens
>    Deweverstraat 22
>    6361 BX ,  Nuth
>    Netherlands  EUROPE
> 
> STEP 2.
> 
>     Now remove the top name from the list, and move the
>     other names up.This way, #5 becomes #4 and so on.
>     Put your name in as the fifth one on the list.
> 
> STEP 3.
> 
>     Post the article to at least 250 newsgroups. There are at
>     least 19000 newsgroups at any given moment in time.
>     Try posting to as many newsgroups as you can. Remember
>     the more groups you post to, the more people will see your
>     article and send you cash!
> 
> STEP 4.
> 
>     You are now in business for yourself, and should start seeing
>     returns within 7 to 14 days! Remember, the Internet is new
>     and huge. There is no way you can lose.
> 
>     Now here is how and why this system works:
> 
>     Out of every block of 250 posts I made, I got back 5 responses.
>     Yes, thats right,only 5. You make $5.00 in cash, not checks or
>     money orders, but real cash with your name at #5.
> 
>     Each additional person who sent you $1.00 now also makes 250
>     additional postings with your name at #4, 1000 postings. On
>     average then, 50 people will send you $1.00 with your name at
>     #4,....$50.00 in your pocket!
> 
>     Now these 50 new people will make 250 postings each with your
>     name at #3 or 10,000 postings. Average return, 500 people= $500.
>     They make 250 postings each with your name at #2= 100,000
>     postings=5000 returns at $1.00 each=$5,000.00 in cash!
> 
>     Finally, 5,000 people make 250 postings each with your name at
>     #1 and you get a return of $60,000 before your name drops off
>     the list.And that's only if everyone down the line makes only 250
>     postings each! Your total income for this one cycle is $55,000.
> 
>     From time to time when you see your name is no longer on the list,
>     you take the latest posting you can find and start all over again.
> 
>                 The end result depends on you. You must follow through
>                 and repost this article everywhere you can think of.
>                 The more  postings you  make, the more cash ends up in
>                 your mailbox. It's too easy and too cheap to pass up!!!
> 
>     So thats it. Pretty simple sounding stuff, huh? But believe me, it
>     works. There are millions of people surfing the net every day, all
>     day, all over the world. And 100,000 new people get on the net
>     every day. You know that, you've seen the stories in the paper.
>     So, my friend, read and follow the simple instructions and play
>     fair. Thats the key, and thats all there is to it. Print this out
>     right now so you can refer back to this article easily. Try to keep
>     an eye on all the postings you made to make sure everyone is
>     playing fairly. You know where your name should be.
> 
>     If you're really not sure or still think this can't be
>     for real, then don't do it. But please print this article and pass
>     it along to someone you know who really needs the bucks, and see
>     what happens.
> 
>     REMEMBER....HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.YOU DON'T
>     NEED TO CHEAT THE BASIC IDEA TO MAKE THE BUCKS!
>     GOOD LUCK TO ALL, AND PLEASE PLAY FAIR AND YOU WILL
>     WIN AND MAKE SOME REAL INSTANT FREE CASH!
> 
> *** By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages
> with your name in the list and not sending the bucks to the people
> already included, you will not get much. I know someone who did this
> and only got about $150 (and that's after two months). Then he sent
> the 5 bills, people added him to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had
> over $10,000!
> 
>                 TRY IT AND YOU'LL BE HAPPY!!!  :o) !!!!!!!!!!
fuck off!

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From: Mike <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 17:58:32 -0500

Very sorry! I meant to post sender only.

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From: James & Angela Penrose <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 05:49:17 -0800

> Very sorry! I meant to post sender only. 
 
Much more useful to post to the sender's postmaster.  Pyramid schemes are 
not only rude and inappropriate to the net, they're also illegal.
 
Angie

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From: [email-masked] (geoff beneze)
Date: 14 Dec 1996 11:33:02 -0700

> not only rude and inappropriate to the net, they're also illegal.

Post to both "Postmaster" and "abuse".
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From: [email-masked] (That Funky Chick)
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 05:30:24 GMT

>not only rude and inappropriate to the net, they're also illegal.

Apologies for cross-posting this, but I thought this might be useful:
There's a web site called "Fight Spam on the Internet" at 
http://www.vix.com/spam/.  It's not mine, I don't know the guy who it
belongs to, but I found a lot of helpful info on there (and in the
news.admin.net-abuse.* newsgroups) on how to deal with spammers, both
in newsgroups and in e-mail.

-Bertha
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