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Not only are chain letters illegal in the U.S. (2 year jail term for 
first offence, see below), they CAN NOT WORK.  There would have to be
over 1,000,000,000,000 people participating for them to work.  Here's 
PROOF:

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The chain letters claim that you will make at least $10,000 (often they 
claim $20,000 or $50,000), by people sending you $1 bills.

If the person who originally wrote the chain letter made $10,000 off of
it, then there are at least 10,000 people who have joined so far.  That's 
obvious; if someone made $10,000 from people sending him $1, then 10,000 
people have joined so far.

In order for each of those 10,000 people to make $10,000, there would 
need to be 100,000,000 people joining (10,000 people already in the
program, each causing another 10,000 to join; 10,000 times 10,000 is
100,000,000).  That, too, is quite obvious.

So, if you saw this chain letter and joined it, according to the way the
chain letter claims it works, there would be 100,000,000 other people 
joining.  For all of you to make your $10,000, you would each need to  
cause another 10,000 people to sign up.  How many are we at now?  It's
simple: 100,000,000 people times 10,000 new people each.  That's 
1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) people joining.  That's about 200 times as
many people as there are on this planet.

Now do you understand why chain letters won't work?

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Chain letters are illegal if the chain letter or money is transferred
via U.S. Mail, and can get you a $1,000 fine and a 2 YEAR jail sentence 
for your first offense.  The second offence can get you in jail for  
5 years.  Even if transmitted via the Internet, they violate Title 18 
USC Section 1302, the Postal Lottery Statute.  For verification, you 
can currently go to http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/
chainlet.htm to see that it is illegal, and go to http://www.usps.gov/
websites/depart/inspect/usc18/lottery.htm for the text of the law).

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Feel free to copy this in response to any chain letters you see,
hopefully as enough people see this, the chain letters will stop.
                                    -Scott
RSP

In article <56m65q$vrr@news.pathcom.com>, hoss@pathcom.com 
says...

>If you follow the steps below HONESTLY, there is
>no reason why you shouldn't make close to $50,000 
>in about a month.
>
>Just notice how many times it appears on the web!!
>DOESN'T THAT TELL YOU SOMETHING!!!!

Yes, it tells you that there are a lot of naive people who break the law and 
risk going to jail for 2 years.