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Re: Does this work?

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From: Cossack
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:42
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And how does this have anything to do with command and conquer???

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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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From: "Cossack" <jeanmarcmetrailler@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Does this work?
Date: 14 Nov 2006 18:42:35 -0800
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