Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!iraq!halvers
From: halvers@iraq.steinmetz (Pete Halverson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Please send me $1.00
Keywords: JayJay mail-fraud
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Date: 10 Jun 88 13:03:19 GMT
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In article <321@cullsj.UUCP> jeff@cullsj.UUCP (Jeffrey C. Fried) writes:
>
>   This recent request for money reminds of a news story i read.  It seems
>that someone was sending postcards (a rather large mailing) that read:
>
>            THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SEND ME $1.00!
>
>followed by an address. [for which the sender collected $50k]
>   This event occurred during the 50's when we weren't as sophisticated so it
>probably wouldn't work now, or would it?

Sure would.  It was just this year (?) that a DJ for some commercial radio
station in the Southwest asked listeners to send in a check for ~20-25
dollars:  didn't say why or what for, just gave the address of the station.
They ended up getting about $10,000.  It didn't sound like they were in any
legal trouble afterwards, either.   The money is going to charity.

Amazing.

[this is purely from fuzzy memory, barely reinforced by seeing the story on
two different news shows.  The details may be off, but the gist of the
story (and the magnitude of the dollar amounts) is the same.]

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Pete Halverson                       ARPA: halverson@ge-crd.ARPA
GE Corporate R&D Center	             UUCP: uunet!steinmetz!iraq!halvers
Schenectady, NY				   halvers@iraq.steinmetz.UUCP
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