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>To:
>Subject: Hey, how are you doing?
>Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 01:19:43 -0800
>
>Parents of 15-year-old find $71,000 cash hidden in his closet.
>
>Does this headline look familiar? Of course it does.
>
>You most likely have just seen this story recently featured on a major
nightly
>news program (USA).
>
>His mother was cleaning and putting laundry away when she came across a
large
>brown paper bag that was suspiciously buried beneath some clothes and a
skateboard
>in the back of her 15-year-old son's closet. Nothing could have prepared
her
>for the shock she got when she opened the bag and found it was full of
cash.
>Five-dollar bills, twenties, fifties and hundreds - all neatly
rubber-banded
>in labeled piles.
>
>"My first thought was that he had robbed a bank", says the 41-year-old
woman,
>"There was over $71,000 dollars in that bag - that's more than my husband
earns
>in a year".
>
>The woman immediately called her husband at the car-dealership where he
worked
>to tell him what she'd discovered. He came home right away and they drove
together
>to the boy's school and picked him up. Little did they suspect that where
the
>money came from was more shocking than actually finding it in the closet.
>
>As it turns out, the boy had been sending out via E-mail on the Internet a
type
>of 'chain-letter' to e-mail addresses that he obtained off of the Internet.
Everyday
>after school for the past 2 months, he had been doing this right on his
computer
>in his bedroom.
>
>"I just got the e-mail one day and I figured what the heck, I put my name
on
>it like the instructions said and I started sending it out", says the
clever
>15-year-old.
>
>The e-mail letter listed 3 addresses and contained instructions to send one
$5
>dollar bill to the persons of the list, then delete the top address and
move
>the other 2 addresses up, and finally to add your name to the bottom of the
list.
>The letter goes on to state that you would receive several thousand dollars
in
>five dollar bills within 2 weeks if you sent out the letter with your name
at
>the bottom of the 3-address list "I get junk E-mail all the time, and I
really
>didn't think it was gonna work", the boy continues.
>
>Within the first few days of sending out the E-mail, the Post Office Box
that
>his parents had gotten him for his video-game magazine subscriptions began
to
>fill up with not magazines, but envelopes containing $5 dollar bills.
>
>"About a week later I rode [my bike] down to the post office and my box had
1
>magazine and about 300 envelopes stuffed in it. There was also a yellow
slip
>that said I had to go up to the [post office] counter- I thought I was in
trouble
>or something (laughs)". He goes on, "I went up to the counter and they had
a
>whole box of more mail for me. I had to ride back home and empty out my
backpack
>'cause I couldn't carry it all".
>
>Over the next few weeks, the boy continued sending out the E-mail. "The
money
>just kept coming in and I just kept sorting it and stashing it in the
closet,
>I barely had time for my homework". He had also been riding his bike to
several
>of the area's banks and exchanging the $5 bills for twenties, fifties and
hundreds.
>"I didn't want the banks to get suspicious so I kept riding to different
banks
>with like five thousand at a time in my backpack. I would usually tell the
lady
>at the bank counter that my dad had sent me in [to exchange the money] and
he
>was outside waiting for me. One time the lady gave me a really strange look
and
>told me that she wouldn't be able to do it for me and my dad would have to
come
>in and do it, but I just rode to the next bank down the street (laughs).
>
>" Surprisingly, the boy didn't have any reason to be afraid. The reporting
news
>team examined and investigated the so-called 'chain-letter' the boy was
sending
>out and found that it wasn't a chain-letter at all. In fact, it was
completely
>legal according to US Postal and Lottery Laws, Title 18, Section 1302 and
1341,
>or Title 18, Section 3005 in the US code, also in the code of federal
regulations,
>Volume 16, Sections 255 and 436, which state a product or service must be
exchanged
>for money received.
>
>Every five-dollar bill that he received contained a little note that read,
"Please
>add me to your mailing list". This simple note made the letter legal
because
>he was exchanging a service (adding the purchaser's name to his mailing
list)
>for a five-dollar fee.
>
>Here is the letter that the 15-year-old was sending out by e-mail, you can
do
>the exact same thing he was doing, simply by following the instructions in
this
>letter.
>
>Here are instructions on how to make $10,000 US cash in the next 2 weeks:
>
>There are 3 addresses listed below.
>
>Send the all three people on the list a $5 bill wrapped in 2 pieces of
paper
>(to securely hide it), along with a note that says: "Please add me to your
mailing
>list".
>
>Then delete that name, move the other 2 up and put your name at the bottom.
>
>Now start sending this ENTIRE e-mail back out to people.
>
>When 20 people receive it, those 20 people will move your name up to the
middle
>position and they will each send out 20. That totals 400 people that will
receive
>this letter with your name in the middle.
>
>Then, those 400 people will move your name up to the top and they will each
send
>out 20 e-mails. That totals 8,000 people that will receive this E-mail with
your
>name at the top and they will each send you a $5 bill.
>
>8,000 people each sending you a $5 bill = $40,000 cash. That's if everyone
responds
>to this e-mail, but not everyone will, so you can expect more realistically
to
>receive about $10,000 in cash ($5 bills) in your mailbox.
>
>This will work for anyone, anywhere in the world in any country, but send
only
>a US CASH $5 bill.
>
>
>The more e-mails you send out, the more cash you will receive. If each
person
>sends out 100 e-mails, there will be 1,000,000 people that receive this
letter
>when your name reaches the top. If only 1% of those people respond, you
will
>still get $50,000 cash.
>
>Here is the list:
>
>
>
>1. N. Michael
>P.O. Box 1373
>Glendora, CA 91741
>
>2. J. Ramirez
>1430 S. Grand Avenue, #302
>Glendora, CA 91740

3. R. Hope
24 Misti Ln.
Vilonia, Arkansas  72173
>
>THERE'S NOTHING MORE TO DO. When your name reaches the top in a few days,
you
>will start receiving $5 bills from other people just like yourself, who are
willing
>to invest a $5 bill to receive $10,000 cash.
>
>If you don't try it - you will never know!!!!!!!!