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Parents of 15 year old find $71,000 cash hidden in his closet

Its Legal, Its Easy, so Why Not? (We
>never tried this before...we figure what the heck...It's only $5 and a few
>minutes to change and send this out...)

When you send the money, as indicated in the following text, you are
paying for a service.<p>

             (copied from the text below)
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.<p>

> 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 person at the top of the list, then delete that
>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 person at the top of the list a US$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 US$5 bill.
>8,000 people each sending you a US$5 bill = US$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 US$10,000 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.
>However if you are sending to someone in your own country you may send the
>equivalent of US $5  in your local currency e.g. someone from New Zealand
>may send a New Zealand member NZ$10 cash. Otherwise keep to the US$5 cash.
>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 US$50,000 cash.
>Here is the list:
>Make a copy BEFORE moving names.
>--------------------------------------------------
> 1. Derrick J. Thom - Email Address: kebir@net-bizz.com
>     77East, 1400North PMB 153
>     Logan, UT 84341
>    USA
>
> 2. merickc chong chun hou - Email Address: merickc@tm.net.my
>     B6-1 KG Brunei ,
>     Off Jln Pudu ,
>     55100 K.L ,Malaysia.

    3. Larry Allen
       16 Lovilla Blvd.
       North York, Ontario
       Canada   M9M 1C5

>--------------------------------------------------
>THERE'S NOTHING MORE TO DO. When your name reaches the top in a few days,
>you will start receiving US$5 bills from other people just like yourself,
>who are willing to invest a US $5 bill to receive US$10,000 cash. At the
>same time you will also  build up an excellent mailing list for other
>businesses you  run.
>Many names will have a postal address only. Some will have a postal address
>AND e-gold account number. You may send the US$5 to either,  whichever is
>more convenient for you. If you send US$5 by e-gold write in the MEMO
>SECTION:
> "Please add me to your mailing list: (followed by your  e-mail address)".
>
> If you don't try it - you will never, never know.
>