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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Easy money
Message-ID: <15553@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 22 Mar 91 22:06:06 GMT
References: <246.27e77efe@mwk.uucp> <1991Mar21.164850.15625@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Mar21.164850.15625@m.cs.uiuc.edu> bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
-In article <246.27e77efe@mwk.uucp> tway@mwk.uucp (Bill Tway) writes:
->Follow these instructions EXACTLY, and in 20 to 60 days you
->will have received well over $50,000.00 cash, all yours.
-  Uh huh.  Folks, you're making a mailing list for the guy at the TOP OF THE
-PYRAMID, he's making bucks and you're getting rooked.
-  These scame have been flowing over the net with concerning regularity
-lately- I wish there was a way to accurately track down and terminate
-everyone who posts these scams.

Indeed, that is a classic example of a "pyramid" scheme, and it is HIGHLY
ILLEGAL, at least when it uses the US mails.  I suspect that the same is
true in spades for such use of the DoD Internet facilities.  Participants
in such schemes risk being the object of criminal prosecution.