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On Tue, 20 Aug 1996 20:47:01 -0700, david_brewer <@hp.com> wrote:
>More Money wrote:
>> 
>> 1�
>> 
>> With 5 dollars and a few stamps you could be making money! Sounds
>> phoney right? Wrong! This is a proven system that earns you cash
>> fast! How does $20,000 dollars sound! It's a surely within you grasp. If
>> you follow these simple directions you will be the recipient of tons
>> of cash!!! The basic idea is simple: You send one dollar to each
>> person on the list. Then take the name of the person who is in the
>> first slot and take it off the list and move everybody up one slot.
>> This will leave the fifth slot empty. You write your name, address,
>> zipcode, and country... Yes country! Then you take that list and
>> post it along with the following official directions to all the
>> newsgroups you can. Within two weeks money will start to
>> trickle into your mail box but by the fourth week little one dollar
>> bills will flood into your mailbox. True!  After using this system
>> once I had made $22,316 dollars, impressive huh? Hardly, I know
>> people who have made well over $40,000!!!

balance of illegal chainletter snipped.

Either this guy is dumber than a hammer or a genius. As you can see
from the headers this is posted using Hewlett-Packard facilities and
presumably on company time. The question is "can he possibly be dumb
enough to do this illegal posting on dozens of newsgroups representing
Hewlett-Packard or is he smart enough to forge the postings? Of course
there is always the possibility (remote) that Hewlett-Packard is
promoting this scheme because business is slow. At any rate it is
unusual to see Hewlett-Packard's name plastered in the headers of an
illegal chainletter.

Note the headers copied below.

cronkite.polaristel.net!news3.mr.net!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hpuerci.atl.hp.com!news
From: david_brewer <@hp.com>
Newsgroups:
bc.bcnet,van.general,biz.general,biz.misc,can.jobs,can.general,ab.jobs,alt.aapg.general,alt.anonymous,alt.anonymous.messages,alt.astrology,alt.autos.macho-trucks,alt.bbs,alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.doors,alt.bbs.internet,alt.beer,alt.beer.like-molson-eh,alt.binaries.games,alt.binaries.games.discussion,alt.books.stephen-king,alt.building.jobs,alt.business,alt.business.career-opportunities.executives,alt.business.home.pc,alt.business.misc,alt.child-support,alt.childcare,alt.comp.shareware,alt.comp.shareware.programmer,alt.cyberspace,alt.drugs,alt.fax,alt.feminism,alt.food.chocolate,alt.food.fast-food,alt.forsale,alt.gambling,alt.games
Subject: Re: READ THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!!!! - money.wri [1/1]
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 20:47:01 -0700
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
Lines: 156
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <321A86B5.7ACA@hp.com>
References: <4vdf4u$ctg@atlas.uniserve.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dpbrewer3107.atl.hp.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I)
To: More Money <harry@uniserve.com>
Xref: cronkite.polaristel.net bc.bcnet:1524 van.general:19801
biz.general:105290 can.jobs:56455 can.general:110380 ab.jobs:21108
alt.aapg.general:5442 alt.anonymous:11231 alt.anonymous.messages:10453
alt.astrology:97352 alt.autos.macho-trucks:7544 alt.bbs:67777
alt.bbs.ads:45521 alt.bbs.doors:15402 alt.bbs.internet:52977
alt.beer:98480 alt.beer.like-molson-eh:1898 alt.binaries.games:290164
alt.binaries.games.discussion:2000 alt.books.stephen-king:47875
alt.building.jobs:1426 alt.business:130545
alt.business.career-opportunities.executives:8683
alt.business.home.pc:52781 alt.business.misc:199486
alt.child-support:60277 alt.childcare:326 alt.comp.shareware:18747
alt.comp.shareware.programmer:2965 alt.cyberspace:33188
alt.drugs:186179 alt.fax:5372 alt.feminism:199860
alt.food.chocolate:6142 alt.food.fast-food:1779 alt.forsale:42857
alt.gambling:7617 alt.games:34394

Surely someone in all of these newsgroups which his message is spammed
to will know to whom this illegal activity should be reported to.