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From: Ted Burton <>
Subject: Re: Looking for fun? Easy money? -- NOT!!!!
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 08:36:03 -0700
In-Reply-To: <32ad4ca1.89577906@news.concentric.net>


At 18:53 -07001, Mercenary wrote thus [I likely cut a lot out]:
>THIS IS THE FAIREST MOST HONEST WAY I KNOW TO SHARE THE WEALTH!
>
> 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

This is the classic dhain letter SCAM. The population of the world would
be sucked up in a suprisingly few generations of 5 times 5 times 5 times 5
times 5 repeats of this message. The first guy makes a bundle. The fifth
sucks eggs.

In many places posting that message is a crime.

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