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From: cambler@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fubar's Carbonated Hormones)
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Subject: Re: 900 Number Sweepstakes, Space Flight is Prize!
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Date: 19 Dec 90 03:19:55 GMT
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Whoooa, Pat, it's a SCAM. Moscow reported this afternoon that they
don't know who these people are, but there is NO PLAN to send anyone
to Mir, through a sweepstakes or otherwise. Please check this out
further if you can.


Christopher(); --- cambler@polyslo.calpoly.edu --- chris@erotica.fubarsys.com


[Moderator's Note: Consider it done.  About 4 AM Tuesday morning I put
in a phone call to Moscow and spoke with a public relations person in
the responsible agency. He said exactly what you said, and was pleased
that the 'American media' (who me? !) was calling to find out '.. the
truth about that rumor some Americans have started ...' The phone call
cost me about twenty dollars, but I'd rather spend it on that call
than give $2.99 to those greedy con-artists in Texas who are
perpetrating this scam. The Moscow person said he believed it had been
or was being brought to the attention of the (United States) Federal
Bureau of Investigation by his superiors.  That's all those vultures
need: a visit from the Federal Bureau of Inquisition!  :)    PAT]