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From: SJD
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 00:00
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From - Mon May 19 08:55:51 1997 From: "Rick Slaven" Subject: $500,000 in
90 days
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NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-phx-60.futureone.com Date: 11 May 97 03:09:05 GMT
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The following is a copy of the original letter I found when I got
started:
----------------------------------------------------------- Dear Friend,
I am a retired Attorney,
and about two years ago a man came to me with a letter. The letter he
brought to me is basically the
letter in your hands. He asked me to verify the fact that this letter
was legal. I told him that I would
review it and get back to him. When I first read the letter my new
client brought me I thought it was
some off-the-wall idea to get cash. However, a week and-a-half later we
met in my office to discuss
the issue. I told hi the letter he originally brought to me was not
entirely legal. I then suggested a few
changes which would make the letter 100% legal. I was curious so my
client suggested that I give
the letter a try. I thought it was a long shot and would be a waste of
time, so I decided against
participating. However, before my client left, I asked him to keep me
apprised of the results. About
two months later he called me to tell me he had received over
$800,000.00 in cash!! I didn't believe
him, so he again suggested that I try it to find out for myself. I
thought about it for a couple of days
and decided that I didn't really have anything to lose, so I asked my
client for a copy of the letter. I
followed the instructions exactly, sent out 200 copies, and sure enough,
the money started arriving!
It came slowly at first, but after 3 weeks, I was getting more mail than
I could open in a day! The
money stopped coming after about three (3) months. I kept a precise
record of my earnings, and
they totaled $968,498.00!! I was earning a good living as a lawyer, but
as anyone in the legal
profession, or anyone who owns their own business will tell you, there
is a lot of stress that comes
with the job. I told myself that if things worked out, I would retire
from my job and travel. I decided
to try the letter again, but this time I sent out 500 letters. Well,
three months later, my earnings
totaled $2,344,178.00!!! I just could not believe it. I met with my
former client (and now my friend)
for lunch to find out why it worked so well. he told me there are quite
a few similar letters going
around. What made THIS ONE DIFFERENT WAS THE FACT THAT 6 ADDRESSES
APPEAR ON THE LIST, AND NOT 5 LIKE MOST OF THE OTHERS. This fact alone
results
in your name being on far more returns. Of course I was thankful that he
had shown this plan to me,
but he was just as thankful that I had suggested the changes to ensure
that this plan was legal since
most people don't want to risk doing something illegal. I'll bet that by
now you are curious to know
the little change I suggested in my friend's original letter. Well, to
be legal you must actually sell a
product or service if you expect to receive a dollar. I told my friend
that anyone sending a dollar
back to him must receive something in return. You have received this
letter due to the participation
of each of the 6 persons given below. This letter and the plan given
within this letter are a "product"
that you have received. Thus, you will be sending $1.00 USD to each of
the 6 persons given below
in exchange for receiving this letter and for asking them to provide the
"service" of adding you on
their mailing list of business opportunities. THIS IS A SERVICE AND IS A
100% LEGAL
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY WHICH IS COVERED IN TITLE 18, SECTION 1302 AND
1342 OF THE POSTAL AND LOTTERY LAWS. NOW, PLEASE FOLLOW THESE TRIED
AND TRUE STEPS TO OBTAIN THE AMOUNT YOU DESIRE: Immediately send a $1 US
dollar bill to each of the 6 people on the list below. Wrap this dollar
in a note with the words:
"Please put me on your mailing list." (Remember, in this way, you're not
just sending a dollar to
someone; you're paying for a legitimate service. This is the key to the
program! Remember to
include both your mailing address and your e-mail address. Make sure
that you retain EVERY name
and/or address sent to you, either on computer or hard copy, but do not
discard the names and
notes that people send to you. This is PROOF that you are truly
providing a service, and should the
IRS or some other government agency question you, you can provide them
with this proof!
Therefore, you will start a list of all the people who send you a dollar
requesting to be added on a
mailing list. Actually, you will want to safeguard this list because it
can generate even better
responses and much more money later! Remove the #1 name on the list,
move the rest of the names
up one position. Thus, #6 becomes #5, #4 becomes #3, etc., then place
your name in the #6 spot.
DO NOT EDIT THIS LETTER ANYMORE BEYOND THIS POINT. If you are mailing
this
letter, you may edit the reference to the Internet. Post this letter in
at least 250 newsgroups, I do 30
groups per post. You can simply copy the contents of this letter and
post it to the newsgroups of
your choice. (If you re not sure how, see my directions at the bottom.)
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Please pay attention to the newsgroups in which you post. If there is an
abundance of similar letters,
you may want to seek another newsgroup. Thus, pay respect to the harmony
of the newsgroup and
use common sense. There are plenty of newsgroups on the Internet. (I
think there are close to
25,000 of them.) ALSO, PLEASE POST IN APPROPRIATE GROUPS AND SPREAD YOUR
POSTINGS OVER MANY DIFFERENT LOCAL & INTERNATIONAL AREAS (SPREAD
THE WORD)! Keep a copy of this letter; you can use it more than once.
Also remember to keep
EACH AND EVERY NAME AND ADDRESS SENT TO YOU. Then, send out more copies
in
about 6 months. It will work again, only much better! Here are the
addresses that you must send a
dollar to with your slip of paper requesting placement on their mailing
list, as instructed above: 1. M. Slater Hatton Hill Windlesham
Surrey, GU20 6AB England 2. G. Haugen PO Box 1541 Comox, BC, V9N 8A2
Canada 3. F.P.
Tine 1 Pine Glen Drive Sicklerville, NJ 08081-1319 USA 4. Robert Greene
Rt 3389 PO Box 582
Meally, KY 41234 USA 5. R. Slaven 5201 E. Blanche Dr. Scottsdale,
Arizona 85254 USA 6. S.J.Dacanay 1984 Colony St.#1 Mountain View
California 94043 USA
*********************************************************** DIRECTIONS
How
to Re-Post ***********************************************************
OK. This
is how I did it (Windows95/PC). Do not re-type this email (as this post
previously instructed). First,
open up an empty Notepad file. (Notepad is best to use because MSWord
and other high end word
processors employ more sophistication than the Internet newsgroups can
utilize. (In Windows it
should be under the Accessories menu.) Then, put your cursor at the
beginning of this document,
hold the left mouse button down, drag it to the bottom and release. Now
hold the Control key down
and press 'C' (CTRL-C). This will copy the highlighted text to the
clipboard. Now get back to your
notepad file (in Windows95 it's down in your taskbar), put the cursor at
the top of the notepad file,
then hold the control key down and press 'V' (CTRL-V). This will copy
the contents of the
clipboard into your notepad file. Now you can edit the file. Don't
forget to remove name #1, put
your name in at #6 and re-number accordingly. Save this file (as a .txt
file.) If you want to break up
your sessions of posting you'll always have this file to go back to. FOR
NETSCAPE USERS: 1)
Click on any newsgroup. From a newsgroup, click on the 'TO NEWS' BUTTON,
which should be
in the top left corner of the newsgroups page. This will bring up a
message box. 2) Fill in the
Subject. (Something to catch attention). 3) Highlight the entire
contents of your .txt file, do a
CTRL-C TO copy the document into the clipboard, get back to the e-mail
you are posting to the
newsgroup and press CTRL-V to copy your file into the body of the
e-mail. 4) Hit the 'SEND'
button in the upper left corner. You're done with your first one! 5) Go
to another newsgroup, press
'TO NEWS' button, type in the Subject line, press CTRL-V, press 'SEND'.
That's two! Repeat as
needed... INTERNET EXPLORER USERS: (Directions are pretty much the same,
except for the
names of the buttons.) 1) Go to newsgroups and press 'POST AN ARTICLE'.
2) Fill in the
Subject. 3) Same as #3 above. 4) Hit the 'POST' button.
*********************************************************** END OF
DIRECTIONS ***********************************************************
Now, mail your 6 envelopes and wait for the postman to multiply your (6)
$1.32 investments about
10,000 times.    IT REALLY WORKS!!!
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From: SJD <susanjane@unforgettable.com>
Subject: something to catch your attention
Date: 1997/05/27
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