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Article #507Re: $Money$ Making Programs EXPOSED ...
From: Joel Rubin
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 00:00
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I heard there's this big scam that claims to recover money for people who have lost money on other scams. Of course, 99% of all the scams on the 'net are chain letters or other similar pyramid schemes. For a while, there was this phone number pyramid scheme all over Usenet. They told you to call "Canada for $1.50" except that they gave you the country code for the Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean. Recently, I saw an 800# on the 'web for a similar pyramid. In article <john-2302961304160001@bovine.ati.com>, john@bovine.ati.com says... > > >Alternative Solution ... Realize that any Money Making scheme only makes > money for the scheme promoter. People who make money > in innovative ways do so years before any of the > hucksters come out with "Make Money Fast" in that > field. > >Rule of Thumb ... If you hear about it in any public forum, the idea is > already dead or over the hill. > > >Nice touch, though. Scam people out of their money by telling them about >others scamming them out of their money. -- ******* WARNING ******* The following lines violate the indecency provisions of the U.S. Telecommunications Act of 1996: Henry Hyde James Exon Slade Gorton. William Clinton
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,14d2c48576f55fb5 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 101acf,14d2c48576f55fb5 X-Google-Attributes: gid101acf,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,14d2c48576f55fb5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public From: jmrubin@ix.netcom.com (Joel Rubin) Subject: Re: $Money$ Making Programs EXPOSED ... Date: 1996/02/24 Message-ID: <4gng4m$4pv@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 140873695 references: <4g15oo$ksc@bolivia.it.earthlink.net> <john-2302961304160001@bovine.ati.com> organization: Nattering Nabobs of Negativism x-netcom-date: Sat Feb 24 8:59:02 AM PST 1996 newsgroups: general,ca.general,ba.general,triangle.general