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Article #240Another chain letter idiot
From: H. C. Benson
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <32CE9888.3181@earthlink.net>, bbre@earthlink.net says... >(snipped garbage) 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). H.C. Benson
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112f74,1b25c5558285b723 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f74,public X-Google-Thread: 109b81,1b25c5558285b723 X-Google-Attributes: gid109b81,public X-Google-Thread: 102956,1b25c5558285b723 X-Google-Attributes: gid102956,public From: cbenson@CSWNET.COM (H. C. Benson) Subject: Another chain letter idiot Date: 1997/01/04 Message-ID: <5amiqd$2hr@data.csw.net> X-Deja-AN: 207871392 references: <32CE9888.3181@earthlink.net> organization: EUREKA! Idea Development mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: eureka_ideas@hotmail.com newsgroups: ab.general,ab.gov.agriculture.barley,ab.jobs