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Article #27692Re: Does this work?
From: Cossack
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:42
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:42
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And how does this have anything to do with command and conquer??? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Great free multiplayer games here: a href=http://www.gamestotal.com/>Multiplayer Online Games</a> <a href=http://www.gamestotal.com/>Strategy Games</a><br><a href=http://uc.gamestotal.com/>Unification Wars</a> - <a href=http://uc.gamestotal.com/>Massive Multiplayer Online Games</a><br><a href=http://gc.gamestotal.com/>Galactic Conquest</a> - <a href=http://gc.gamestotal.com/>Strategy Games</a><br><a href=http://www.stephenyong.com/runescape.htm>Runescape</a><br><a href=http://www.stephenyong.com/kingsofchaos.htm>Kings of chaos</a><br> Cossack92u515710 Shane Thans wrote: > MAKE MONEY DOING NOTHING! > > Take 5 Minutes of Your Time To Read This, it is well worth it! > > Dear Friends, > Parents of 15-year-old find $71,000 cash hidden in his closet. Does this > headline look familiar? Of course it does. You may have seen this story > featured on a major nightly news program (USA). His mother was cleaning > and putting laundry away when she came across a large brown paper bag that > was suspiciously buried beneath some clothes and a skateboard in the back > of her 15-year-old son's closet. Nothing could have prepared her for the > shock she got when she opened the bag and found it was full of cash. Five > dollar bills, twenties, fifties and hundreds - al neatly rubber-banded in > labeled piles. > > "My first thought was that he had robbed a bank", says the 41-year-old > woman, "There was over $71,000 dollars in that bag-that's more than my > husband earns in a year". The woman immediately called her husband at the > car-dealership where he worked to tell him what she'd discovered. He came > home right away and they drove together to the boy's school and picked him > up. > > Little did they suspect that where the money came from was more shocking > than actually finding it in the closet? As it turns out, the boy had been > sending out via E-mail on the Internet a type of 'chain-letter' to E-mail > addresses that he obtained off of the Internet. Everyday after school for > the past 2 months, he had been doing this right on his computer in his > bedroom. "I just got the E-mail one day and I figured what the heck, I put > my name on it like the instructions said and I started sending it out", > says the clever 15-year-old. > > The E-mail letter listed 3 addresses and contained instructions to send > one $5 dollar bill to the person at the top of the list, then delete that > address and move the other 2 addresses up, and finally to add your name to > the bottom of the list. The letter goes on to state that you would receive > several thousand dollars in five dollar bills within 2 weeks if you sent > out the letter with your name at the bottom of the 3-address list "I get > junk E-mail all the time, and I really didn't think it was going to work", > the boy continues. > > Within the first few days of sending out the E-mail, the Post Office Box > that his parents had gotten him for his video-game magazine subscriptions > began to fill up with not magazines, but envelopes containing $5 dollar > bills. > > "About a week later I rode [my bike] down to the post office and my box > had 1 magazine and about 300 envelopes stuffed in it. There was also a > yellow slip that said I had to go up to the [post office] counter- > I thought I was in trouble or something (laughs)". He goes on, "I went up > to the counter and they had a whole box of more mail for me. I had to ride > back home and empty out my backpack 'cause I couldn't carry it all". > > Over the next few weeks, the boy continued sending out the E-mail. "The > money just kept coming in and I just kept sorting it and stashing it in > the closet, I barely had time for my homework". He had also been riding > his bike to several of the area's banks and exchanging the $5 bills for > twenties, fifties and hundreds. "I didn't want the banks to get suspicious > so I kept riding to different banks with like five thousand at a time in > my > backpack. I would usually tell the lady at the bank counter that my dad > had > sent me in [to exchange the money] and he was outside waiting for me. One > time the lady gave me a really strange look and told me that she wouldn't > be able to do it for me and my dad would have to come in and do it, but I > just rode to the next bank down the street (laughs)." > > Surprisingly, the boy didn't have any reason to be afraid. The reporting > news team examined and investigated the so-called 'chain-letter' the boy > was sending out and found that it wasn't a chain-letter at all. In fact, > it was completely legal according to US Postal and Lottery Laws, Title 18, > Section 1302 and 1341, or Title 18, Section 3005 in the US code, also in > the code of federal regulations, Volume 16, Sections 255 and 436, which > state a product or service must be exchanged for money received. Every > five-dollar bill that he received contained a little note that read, > "Please add me to your mailing list". This simple note made the letter > legal because he was exchanging a service (adding the purchasers name to > his mailing list) for a five-dollar fee. Here is the letter that the > 15-year-old was sending out by E-mail, you can do the exact same thing he > was doing, simply by following the instructions in this letter > > FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION AND BY INVESTING 5 DOLLARS YOU COULD MAKE MAYBE > $70,000 DOLLARS MAYBE LESS OR MORE. > --------------------------------------------- > Here are instructions on how to make at least $10,000 US cash in the next > 2 weeks by only investing 5 dollars out of your pocket: There are 3 > addresses listed below. > > Send the person at the top of the list a $5 bill wrapped in 2 pieces of > paper (to securely hide it), along with a note that says: "Please add me > to your mailing list", with your email address. Then delete that name, > move the other 2 up and put your name at the bottom. > > Now start sending this ENTIRE thing back out to people (anybody) just > send it out to a valid E-mail address or newsgroup. > Just paste this ENTIRE message, with this true story, in a new > e-mail/newsgroup. > > When 20 people receive it, those 20 people will move your name up to the > middle position and they will each send out 20. > > That totals 400 people that will receive this letter with your name in the > middle. Then, those 400 people will move your name up to the top and they > will each send out 20 E-mails or post to 20 or more Newsgroups. That totals > 8,000 people that will receive this E-mail or newsgroup posting with your > name > at the top and they will each send you a $5 bill. 8,000 people each sending > you > a $5 bill, which equals $40,000 cash. > > That's if everyone responds to this E-mail or Newsgroup posting, but not > everyone will, so you can expect more realistically to receive about $10,000 > cash $5 bills in your mailbox. > > This will work for anyone, anywhere in the world in any country, but send > only a US CASH $5 bill. The more E-mails you send out or newsgroups you post > to, > the more cash you will receive. If each person sends out 100 E-mails or > posted > to 100 Newsgroups, there will be 1,000,000 people that receive this letter > when > your name reaches the top. If only 1% of those people respond, you will > still > get $50,000. Here is the list: > > If you wish to post to newsgroups it is quick and easy. Just google and > download postXpert, it is a great program =) > > 1) M. Askins > 13333 Oakridge Ln. > Chelsea, MI 48118 > > 2) J. Hartwell > 21450 Birch St. > Hayward, CA 94541 > > > 3) S. Thans > 495 Granby Rd > South Hadley, MA 01075 > > > THERE'S NOTHING MORE TO DO. When your name reaches the top in a few days, > you will start receiving $5 bills from other people just like yourself, > who are willing to invest a $5 bill and a stamp to receive $10,000 cash. > If you don't try it- you will never know. It Works, Its Legal, Its Easy, > so Why Not? Nothing ventured, nothing gained In the spirit of FUN, let's > play...... > -- > Sincerely, > Shane Thans > Gemini Enterprises > www.geminiwholesale.com
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Cossack" <jeanmarcmetrailler@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.command.and.conquer Subject: Re: Does this work? Date: 14 Nov 2006 18:42:35 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 171 Message-ID: <1163558555.062907.138200@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> References: <sOVQg.12$Dq3.6@trndny06> NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.141.132.23 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1163558561 26300 127.0.0.1 (15 Nov 2006 02:42:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:42:41 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <sOVQg.12$Dq3.6@trndny06> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=72.141.132.23; posting-account=8KzzWw0AAAAHL0QJPmfNzC4c23SPmUnT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit