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From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Easy money
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.233200.18408@informix.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 23:32:00 GMT
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In article <1991Mar21.194246.7885@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:

>>> Follow these instructions EXACTLY, and in 20 to 60 days you
>>> will have received well over $50,000.00 cash, all yours.
>>
>>Uhh, this sounds horribly like a pyramid mailing scheme, which is
>>strictly illegal... 
>
>It is illegal to send it through the US Mail, but that does not cover
>this, does it?

But if this pyramid e-mail scheme DID work, you would have some
tens of thousands of email messages choking the system for the purpose
NOT of disseminating information, but just to make $ for a few folks...

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