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Article #86154Scam alert!
From: TheCentralScrutinizer.111
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:00
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Seen in r.h.f. On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:30:01 PST, Cole Tuininga <egon@tradeservices.com> wrote: > WARNING! PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY! THIS IS SERIOUS! > >If you get an envelope from a company called the Internal Revenue >Service," DO NOT OPEN IT! This group operates a scam around this time >every year. Their letter claims that you owe them money, which they >will take and use to pay for the operation of essential functions of the >United States government. This is untrue! The money the IRS collects is >used to fund various other corporations which depend on subsidies to >stay in business. > >This organization has ties to another shady outfit called the Social >Security Administration, who claim to take money from your regular >paychecks and save it for your retirement. In truth, the SSA uses the >money to pay for the same misguided corporate welfare the IRS helps >mastermind. > >These scam artists have bilked honest, hard working Americans out of >billions of dollars. Don't be among them! > > >FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW! > >-- >Selected by Jim Griffith. MAIL your joke to funny@netfunny.com. >Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. > >Web users, you can read a random joke from the archives just by bookmarking > http://www.netfunny.com/cgi-bin/randomurl/rhf/jokes/masterlist > >This joke's link: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/99/Jan/alert.html --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,9b74216181c01e67,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,public X-Google-Thread: 1026d8,9b74216181c01e67,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1026d8,public From: TheCentralScrutinizer.111@pobox.com () Subject: Scam alert! Date: 1999/01/20 Message-ID: <slrn7aaknk.evt.TheCentralScrutinizer.111@edison.chisp.net> X-Deja-AN: 434687861 References: <Sd73.5cf7@netfunny.com> Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Reply-To: TheCentralScrutinizer.111@pobox.com Newsgroups: co.general,co.politics