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- From: stig@Lise.Unit.NO (Stig Hemmer)
- Subject: Re: Make Money Fast!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.071617.21982@ugle.unit.no>
- Followup-To: misc.misc
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Anarchy
- References: <1234554321@rhoades.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 07:16:17 GMT
- Approved: Wayne and Garth ... NOT!
- Lines: 55
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- In article <1234554321@rhoades.uucp>, Dave Rhoades writes:
- > MAKE MONEY FAST !!!!
- > =====================
- [A load of crap deleted]
-
- I am sending this follow-up to all the groups where the original
- article appared. Further follow-ups are directed to misc.misc, which
- is the least irrelevant of these groups.
-
- I just wanted to point out to everybody that actually going through
- with this is a bad idea. For several reasons.
-
- 1. You are not likely even to get your $10 back.
-
- Money does not appear out of thin air. Like a lottery a few people
- earns a lot of bucks and a lot of people lose a few bucks. Unlike a
- lottery it is pretty easy to guess who wins and who loses. The
- person(s) starting the chain wins, as does the first few levels after
- that. The rest loses. This is assuming, of course, that everybody stays
- honest.
-
- You see, if the first person is to earn $35000 this means 3500 other
- people has to pay $10. For those 3500 people to get $35000 each
- another ten million people has to join. For the next level every
- single human being on Earth has to join... seven times.
-
- By the time this message reaches USENET I would guess you are pretty
- late in the chain.
-
- 2. The name 'Dave Rhoades' does not appear on the list!
-
- This means that 'Dave' has broken his own rules... In fact, my guess
- is that 'Dave Rhoades' doesn't exist or at least hasn't written this
- article. (Did I mention that the article is a rather obvious forgery?)
- My guess is also that the real author is number five on the list, i.e.
- the person who is likely to earn the most from this caper.
-
- 3. This is commersial use of the USENET, which isn't quite legal.
-
- It least some of the networks where USENET travels is explicitly
- non-commercial. E.g. the North-American internet backbone NSFNET. I'm
- not sure about the legel aspects of this, but I believe the forger has
- a ton of bricks waiting to come down on him if he can be traced down.
-
- 4. This isn't the kind of articles I want to spend my day wading through.
-
- This is of course just my humble opinion, but I think a lot of people
- would agree that this is not why they are reading news.
-
- So, to sum it up: Don't do it.
-
- Stig 'Tortoise' Hemmer aka stig@lise.unit.no
- .no means Norway, a minor kingdom in northern Europe.
- Europe is a moon of Jupiters.
- This is NOT a .signature virus. Do NOT copy it into your .signature
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