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Re: $$$>>> Parents of 15 year old find $71,000 cash hidden in his closet. <<<$$$

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From: db
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 06:20
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Legal my ass...if you find that kind of money in a teen's closet it's
more likely that he's supplying the school district with nose candy

On 3 Mar 2002 23:12:16 -0800, aim4freedom@yahoo.com (Paul) wrote:

>15 Year old makes over $70,000 in less than 4 months... 
>
>In early 2000, ABC's 20/20 devoted an entire segment to document how a
>15 year old accumulated over $70,000 in less than 4 months. Their
>findings prove conclusively that...
>
>1. This concept is a powerful wealth generating system!
>2. This is 100% legal!
>3. Anyone (even a 15 year old) can do this and make enormous sums of
>money in very little time!
>
>To learn how he did it, and how you can do the sameοΏ½
>
>Please Read Below
>
>    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 sons'
>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 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 had
>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 email, a
>type of "Report" to E-mail addresses that he obtained off 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 5 addresses and contained instructions to
>send one$5 dollar bill to each person on the list, then delete the
>address at the bottom and move the others down and finally to add your
>name to the top 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 top of the
>5-address list.  "I get junk E-mail all the   time, and really did not
>think it was going to 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 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 because I could not 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, barely had time for my homework" He had
>also been riding his bike to several of the banks in his area and
>exchanging the $5 dollar bills twenties, fifties and hundreds.
>       
>    "I didn't want the banks to get suspicious so I kept riding to
>different banks with like 5 thousand in my backpack at a time.  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 would
>not 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 did not 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 was not a
>chain-letter at all. In fact, it was completely legal according to US
>Postal and Lottery Laws, Title18, 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 send me report
>number XYZ". This simple note made the letter legal because he was
>exchanging a service (A Report on how-to) for a five-dollar fee.
>
>    Just send me an email ( aim4freedom@yahoo.com ) with subject "The
>Letter" if you want it, you can do the exact same thing he was doing,
>simply by following the instructions in this letter.
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