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Article #6351Re: MAKE MONEY AT HOME!
From: Robert Bonomi
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 17:01
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 17:01
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In article <347as1$17u@news1.digex.net>, Paul Robinson <tdarcos@access1.digex.net> wrote: >Jay Vassos-Libove (libove@mindspring.com) wrote: >: It is a pyramid scheme, it is illegal, and it is spamming the net. >: Go away dan@boot.com > >No, he's got you this time. As long as people are mailing back recipes, >it is *not* a pyramid scheme and is not illegal. Spamming yes, illegal no. DO NOT COUNT ON THIS. The question of "Intent" *does* enter into determination of legality. if the primary intent of the program/process/whatever is to get more people in, i.e., at the next level of the pyramid, it *IS* considered a fraud, and therefore illegal. It might take a specific ruling on this case, but I wouldn't want to bet that it would be found legal. And, if *not*, persons who participated _before_ the ruling was made are STILL liable. It is *not* worth the risk. >Otherwise people who put ads in papers offering their recipes would be in >trouble, and Amway would have been indicted years ago. >
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