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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: ~"Mlmake MONEY fast!!!!
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Date: 9 Feb 90 23:02:00 GMT
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In  <2141@ultb.isc.rit.edu> dtb7684@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.T. Bracke ) writes:
> Follow these instructions EXACTLY, and in 20 to 60 days you 
> will have received well over $50,000.00 cash, all yours. 

	This is an absolutely classic pyramid scheme.  I.e. it's a scam, it
doesn't work, it's probably illegal, and if you help propagate it you are
either dishonest or incredibly naive.  I'm constantly amazed that these
things keep popping up, especially on the net, which is probably inhabited
by people significantly more intelligent than the general public at large.
Or am I being incredibly naive to believe that last sentence?

	From my (exceedingly limited) understanding of the law, using the
US mail to run a ponzi scheme (i.e. telling people to mail you money)
constitutes postal fraud.  I would bring thing to our local (paper mail)
postmaster's attention, but I just can't see bothering to try to explain to
him what usenet is.

	Actually, I think there is a clause in the postal fraud laws which
permits this kind of thing, but only if the proceeds are used to buy
postcards to mail to some kid dying of cancer in England. :-)
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