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From: eli@smectos.gang.umass.edu (Eli Brandt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: fast cash
Summary: immoral, deceptive, and not exactly related to Pascal
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Date: 21 Sep 90 20:01:58 GMT
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In article <27127@usc.edu> lfreeman@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Leny Freeman) writes:
>
> 
>Fellow Debtor:                              November 13, 1989
> 
>    The following document is going to sound EXACTLY like a
>mail order con.  The fact is that none of us want to get ripped

No, an e-mail order con.

>by some jerk with nothing else to do but dream these things up.
>BUT - if you will take the 5 minutes it took me to read this,
>you will see that it really can work - it's all based on the
>multiplication factor.  Take this week off from Lotto America
>and put it here.  Your HONESTY and $5.00 WILL get you those
>computer upgrades you've been wanting for Christmas.......
> 
>                        BIZMAN DAVE THE MODEM SLAVE
>                        Takoma Park, MD 20912
>                        Can be reached on the best BBS:
>                        DC Follies BBS (202) 232-3379
>                        (Not the Dave mentioned below...)
> 

Honesty?  Honesty?  If you're using a computer, you probably have the basic 
mental hardware to realize that this is yet another pyramid scheme and that
the *vast* majority of the people who try this will simply get ripped off.
Yet you post this anyway.  This is a con scheme, pure and simple, and I for one
am rather offended that you have wasted bandwidth, other peoples' money, and
about ten gigabytes of disk space to try to make money.  On a Pascal group for
some reason.  If you want to rip people off, at least have the decency to pay for
the stamps youself.

[description of pyramid scheme deleted]

> 
>                             Good Luck,
> 
>                             Charles Kust
>                             St Agathe Que.
> 

Not likely, as you probably know.

/eli/