Xref: utzoo comp.cog-eng:538 comp.databases:1024 comp.dcom.lans:1400 comp.dcom.modems:1892
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!husc6!bbn!rochester!ur-tut!syap
From: syap@ur-tut (James Fitzwilliam)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.databases,comp.dcom.lans,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: HELP ME!!AA
Message-ID: <2115@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 88 03:31:18 GMT
References: <5807@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: syap@tut.cc.rochester.edu (James Fitzwilliam)
Organization: Gadgetland USA
Lines: 46

In article <5807@cup.portal.com> JJ@cup.portal.com writes:
*Poor College Student needs Your Help!!   :-(
*
*Hi.  I just finished my junior year in college, and now I'm
*faced with a major problem.  I can't afford to pay for my senior
*year.  I've tried everything.  I can't get any more student loans,

[...]

*If you would like to help a poor boy out, please send $1 (you can
*of course send more if you want!!  :-)

[...address deleted...]

*PS.  Please don't flame me for posting this to so many newsgroups,
*I really am in dire need of help, and if any of you were as desparate

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Were it not for the recent "Send a postcard to the little boy with
cancer" fiasco (I never did figure out whether it was on the level
or not, with so many arguments in both directions) I could almost
believe this -- he sounds serious.  Since I just got out of a $14K/yr
school via luck, financial aid and generous parents I can understand
his position.

However, several thousand people will have to believe him enough to
send money, or he'll still be stuck -- so why should I risk the
possibility of MY money being no help?

Sir Jay-Jay:
If you're serious, give us the name of your college and the phone number
of your Registrar's Office so we can verify you exist, and I might even
consider helping out.  If you're trying to be funny I respectfully
suggest you go soak your head.  [  1/2  (:  ]

					James

PS - Possible topic for discussion in either case -- is there such a
     thing as 'net fraud,' illegal in the same way as mail fraud??

domain: syap@tut.cc.rochester.edu
  path: rochester!ur-tut!syap             "Piano is my forte"  (-:
 GEnie: FITZWILLIAM

========================================================================