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From: jeff@cullsj.UUCP (Jeffrey C. Fried)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.os.vms,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.d
Subject: Please send me $1.00
Keywords: JayJay mail-fraud
Message-ID: <321@cullsj.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 88 19:52:45 GMT
Organization: Cullinet Software, San Jose, CA
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   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.  The post office approached the person doing it and
said that while they could not prosecute for fraud, they would certainly make
and effort at it if this continued.  The person sending the postcards stopped,
however, the person had already made $50,000.00 by that time.
   This event occurred during the 50's when we weren't as sophisticated so it
probably wouldn't work now, or would it?

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