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Re: How to make Thousands of $$$=How to get fucked

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From: thomas
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 00:00
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In article <6cu8n0$j93$1@front6.grolier.fr>,
  "Alexandre Lukachuk" <chimaera@club-internet.fr> wrote:
>
> You can make a lot of dollars in a few weeks...
>
> Well here it goes:
> A little while back, I was browsing these newsgroups, just like you are
> doing right now, and came across and article similar to this that said you
> could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial ....

I thought nobody would ever try this kind of swindle again, but
there still exist specimens of sons of a B... trying to make
easy money with naοΏ½ves.

A few remarks to wake those who believe this method can work :

- They say you have to give money to 5 people and then contact
5 other people who will in turn do the same etc... If everybody
goes in, there will be 5*5=25 people at 2nd stage, 5*25=125
people at 3rd stage etc... At 12th stage, there will be 244
million people (nearly the population of the US), and at 14th
stage, more than 6 billion people (population of the world
!!!!). Conclusion : it gets harder and harder to find new
people to enter the chain (the population is not infinite) :
you give money but you will never find anyone to give you
anything since everybody already got the message ! It can only
work for the very first who launched the system (it's a
pyramidal system : the summit wins, and the base gets fucked
!!). Since you can't know whether you are in the first levels
or not, you should not give anything.

- You don't have to give money to anybody : you can just put
your name at the end of the list without paying ! (You don't
have to be honest with swindlers !)

- This kind of stupid game (pyramidal chains) may be legal in
the US, but it is strictly prohibited in many countries (in
Europe, especially in France, from where "Alexandre Lukachuk"
posted his message.

- Except the ones who started the chain, the only other
winners are the postal services who sell many stamps if people
are taken in.

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Subject: Re: How to make Thousands of $$$=How to get fucked
Date: 1998/02/26
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