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Article #632509Re: BE RICH IN NOTIME $$$$!!!!
From: Clifford A. Schaffer
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 00:00
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Mera Kulor <mera....@rikare.se> wrote in article
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> --
>
> 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 decided to try it out, a few months ago. Besides,
> what's $5.00? I spend more than that in the morning on my way to work on
> coffee and some breakfast.
that's a good reason to send it off to someone you never heard of.
Send me five bucks, OK?
So I sent in my money and posted. Everyone was
> calling it a scam, but there are SO many new users from AOL, Netcom, etc.
> they will join in and make it work for you.
Oh, right. Want to give us the facts on how long such a pyramid scheme
can run before it runs out of new people?
Well, two weeks later, I began
> receiving bucks in the mail! I couldn't believe it! Not just a some, I
mean
> big bucks! At first only a few hundred dollars, then a week later, a
couple
> of thousand, then BOOM. By the end of the fourth week, I had received
> nearly $47,000.00. It came from all over the world.
So a large collection of idiots sent you some money. Glad I wasn't one
of them.
>And every bit of it
> perfectly legal.
Absolutely wrong. Pyramid schemes are illegal everywhere that I know
of.
I've been able to payoff all my bills and still had enough
> left over for a nice vacation for my family and I.
>
>
> 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 similar chance
with
> $5 of my own money. Not a big chance, I admit--but one with incredible
> potential, because $5 is all anyone ever invests in this system. Period.
>
>
> That's all Markus, Dave, or Dan invested, yet their $5 netted them tens
of
> thousands of dollars each, in a safe, legal, completely legitimate way.
> Here's how it works in 3 easy steps:
>
Chain letters and pyramid schemes are not legal, and the vast majority
of the people in them clearly get ripped off. But you can send me any
amount of money you want, in the hopes that someone else will send you
some.
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From: "Clifford A. Schaffer" <scha...@smartlink.net> Subject: Re: BE RICH IN NOTIME $$$$!!!! Date: 1997/01/27 Message-ID: <01bc0c29$82d7bb60$0f3576cc@cliffcompaq> X-Deja-AN: 212491498 references: <32EC4FF9.7AF0@rikare.se> organization: Schaffer Systems, Inc. newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.ghost-stories,alt.folklore.herbs,alt.folklore.urban,alt.fractal-design.painter,alt.games,alt.games.doom,alt.games.lynx,alt.games.tiddlywinks,alt.games.vga-planets,alt.games.video,alt.games.video.classic,alt.games.xpilot MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit