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- From: bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: FAST CASH!!!
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 22:22:51 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
- Lines: 36
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.215814.16136@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: gibdo.engr.washington.edu
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- I wrote:
- || 1. It is illegal. No matter how you try to disguise it, it will
- || legally be viewed as a fraudulent pyramid/ponzi scheme. If you
- || think it is legal than why do you insist on cash and why are you
- || posting anonymously?
-
- rs69@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Rong Shen) responds:
- | Wait a second. It seems to me that you declare the scheme
- | illegal only because you don't like it.
-
- I didn't do that at all. It's not illegal because I don't like it,
- it is illegal because you will get fined and thrown in jail.
-
- I wrote:
- || 2. Even if it were legal, only morons would fall for that con job.
- || Only morons would send any money to anyone, when they could always
- || start their own lists -- someone has to start them. Just take the
- || post and replace all the names on the list with the names of your
- || friends and family and distribute it to as many places as you can
- || and see if any suckers will fall for your scam.
-
- rs69@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Rong Shen) responds:
- | What's more, there are enough
- | morons in the world for any one who has a little genius and who are
- | slick enough to slip through the loopholes in laws to profit from;
- | they deserve it, don't they. If you want to argue, just remember:
- | Survival of the Fittest and the Smartest.
-
- It doesn't take any genius to decide to break the law and try to pull
- off such a lame con job. It's fraud -- just the same as if someone
- cheated you in a real estate or stock deal. I don't think they deserve
- to profit from cheating people.
- ==
-
- Bob Seattle, Washington
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