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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:32 pm    Post subject: I wouldn't have posted if I didn't really need help Reply with quote

An easy way to make money and get rich quick? I doubt it, but who
knows. I have read this post over and over on many newsgroups and
never tried it. I am financially and almost mindfully at my wits end.
I scraped up 6 bucks and did this today and invested my $6 bucks.
Everyone tells me I am wasting my time, but I have no choice, at this
point, but to try. The only thing I have to lose is my $6, but if it
works, then I will be happy, even if it only works a little. I'm not
looking to get rich, I just need to get by. I figured I'd give it a
try and hope you will to. If anything, maybe we can help each other.
Thank you in advance -Cheryl (P.S. I write poetry and will be willing
to send you one of my poems if you will help me. I will sign over the
rights to my poetry and you can do with it what you want. Just let me
know. Please. Thanks, Cheryl)

Now onto the e-mail that I originally saw posted on the Internet...
I don't even have to convince you that this is not a scam because it
makes logical sense how you can earn money through paypal. This awesome
concept is 100% legal (refer to US Lottery Laws, Title 18, Section 1302
and 1341, or Title 18, Section 3005 in the US code, also in the code of
Federal Regulations, Volume 16, Sections 255 and 436, which state a
product or service must be exchanged for money received). Everyone has
heard about "PayPal" (if you haven't you will soon) and, when I came
across this concept I knew it would work because, as a member of
PayPal, I had already experienced their efficiency and excellent
standing. PayPal is the simplest method of making and receiving
payments online anyone has ever seen! Anyone with an Email address can
join, for FREE!

Please read further before you go there... You can complete this whole
process in less than one hour and you will never forget the day you
decided to do so!!! Oh!, Did I say FAST? By fast I mean 'the speed of
the Internet-type fast.' Everything is done on the Internet by E-mail.
And, if you abide by the rules, it is NOT
considered SPAM, so it's perfectly legal! Anyway, it said that you send
$1.00 through paypal to each of the emails stated in the article. You
then place your own email address in the bottom of the list at No.6,
and post the article in at least 200 Newsgroup. (There are thousands)
No catch...that was it.

So after thinking it over, and talking to few people first, I thought
about trying it. I figured what have I got to lose except $6.00, right?
Like most of us I was a little skeptical and a little worried about the
legal aspects of it: It follows the same regulations as the mailed
chain letters, which according to the U.S. Post Office
(1-800-725-2161) is indeed legal! Then I invested the measly $6.00.
Well GUESS WHAT!!?. Within 7 days, I started getting money in my PayPal
account! I was shocked and excited! I figured it would end soon, but
the money just kept coming in. In my first week, I made about $25.00.
By the End second week I had made a total over $1,100.00! In the third
week I had over $9,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now my fourth
week and I have made a total of just over $22,000.00 and it's still
coming in rapidly. Its: Certainly worth $6.00., I have spent more than
that on the lottery!! Let me tell you how this works and most
importantly, why it works? Also, make sure you print a copy of this
Article NOW, so you can get the information off of it as you need it.

REQUIREMENTS: You must have a verified PayPal account. If you do not
have an account you can go to www.paypal.com and follow the
instructions to set up a free account. In order to place the initial $6
into your account, you will have to verify your bank account with
PayPal (which may take a few days). Paypal is 100% secure and is used
my millions of people world wide.

STEP 1: Send, through PayPal, $1.00 to each email on the below list.
Make the subject of the payment "Email List" and in the comments, write
"PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR EMAIL LIST." What you are doing is creating a
service by this and best of all you are not giving your address to
anyone you do not know... THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL!

The email list:
1) bearcat@keyway.net
2) taffy_Jordan@yahoo.co.uk
3) james_h122@hotmail.com
4) albertgt500@sbcglobal.net
5) dascsi@hotmail.com
6) carlson.disney@juno.com

STEP 2: Now take the 1st email off the list that you see above, move
the other addresses up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc.) and add YOUR
email address (the one used on the paypal account) as number 6 on the
list.

STEP 3: Change anything you need to, but try to keep this article as
close to original as possible. Now, post your amended article to at
least 200 newsgroups, message board. (I think there are close to 32,000
groups) All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the more
money you make - as well as everyone else on the list!

DIRECTIONS---- HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS, MESSAGE BOARD----------

Step 1) You do not need to re-type this entire letter to do your own
posting. Simply put your cursor at the beginning of this letter and
drag your cursor to the bottom of this document, and select 'copy' From
the edit menu. This will copy the entire letter into the computer
memory. Paste the entire file into a Word, Works, or Notepad.

Step 2) Save your new File as a .txt file. If you want to do your
postings in different sittings, you'll always have this file to go back
to.

Step 3) Use Netscape or Internet explorer and try searching for various
newsgroups (on-line forums, message boards, chat sites, discussions).
Just example you log on any search engine like, yahoo.com, google.com,
altavista.com, excite.com then you search with this subject millionaire
message board? or money making message Board? or employment message
board? or money making discussions? web entrepreneur forums? or money
making forum? or business message board? home business forums? home
business boards? Etc. BEING CREATIVE WILL BOOST YOUR RESULTS!!! You
will find thousand & thousand message board. Click one by one then you
will find the option post a new message.

Step 4) Visit these message boards and post this article as a new
message by highlighting the text of this letter and selecting paste
from the edit menu. Fill in the Subject, this will be the header that
everyone sees as they scroll through the list of postings in a
particular group, click the post message button. You're done with your
first one! Please Be Honest and it will truly work for you: Congrats!

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Percival P. Cassidy
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:38 am    Post subject: Re: I wouldn't have posted if I didn't really need help Reply with quote

Reported to abuse@juno.com.
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Travis Jordan
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:11 am    Post subject: Re: I wouldn't have posted if I didn't really need help Reply with quote

Too easy to fake. More better is:

X-Trace: posting.google.com 1119979951 873 127.0.0.1 (28 Jun 2005
17:32:31 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com

-also-

NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.177.16.59
NetRange: 216.177.0.0 - 216.177.31.255
CIDR: 216.177.0.0/19
NetName: NHIX
NetHandle: NET-216-177-0-0-1
Parent: NET-216-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.METRO2000.NET
NameServer: NS2.METRO2000.NET
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 1998-12-30
Updated: 2003-11-20
TechHandle: GC663-ARIN

abuse (at) metro2000 etc.

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Percival P. Cassidy
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:03 am    Post subject: Re: I wouldn't have posted if I didn't really need help Reply with quote

Yes, I know that the putative posting address could be faked, but in
this case it was also one of the addresses in the body of the message,
which I took to indicate that it was genuine.

Even if it was not posted from Juno, wouldn't Juno be concerned that one
of their users was spamming UseNet?

Perce
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Ford Prefect
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:06 am    Post subject: Re: I wouldn't have posted if I didn't really need help Reply with quote

Hardly. Most big ISPs don't have the time or money to invest in this type of
security and tracking.
But complaints are why AOL dumped their newsservers.
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Percival P. Cassidy
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:57 pm    Post subject: Re: I wouldn't have posted if I didn't really need help Reply with quote

Response from Juno:

"Thank you for contacting the Juno Help Center. We appreciate your
bringing this matter to our attention.

The message you received was not sent through the Juno service.

If you observe closely the headers of the message, the posting IP is not
our IP.

However, we have notified the Juno member of this situation and are
waiting for a response. If the member is found responsible for the
incident, we will take immediate action against the member, as per our
Terms of Service."

Note the last paragraph.

Perce
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Travis Jordan
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:25 pm    Post subject: Re: I wouldn't have posted if I didn't really need help Reply with quote

Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
Quote:
"However, we have notified the Juno member of this situation and are
waiting for a response. If the member is found responsible for the
incident, we will take immediate action against the member, as per our
Terms of Service."

Rule 3.
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CherC
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 11:23 pm    Post subject: Re: I wouldn't have posted if I didn't really need help Reply with quote

Hello everyone.

I did not post this message. I have changed my juno password and am in
the process of taking down all I can find. It seems there are several
e-mail circulating with my email. I do not even have a paypal account.

Cherylann
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Travis Jordan
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:13 am    Post subject: Re: I wouldn't have posted if I didn't really need help Reply with quote

CherC wrote:
Quote:
I did not post this message. I have changed my juno password and am
in the process of taking down all I can find. It seems there are
several e-mail circulating with my email. I do not even have a
paypal account.

Sorry, your protestation fails the facts test.

The original message:
NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.177.16.59

Your "I didn't do it" message:
NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.177.16.59

Name: 59.16.177.216.cust.nh.inaddr.G4.NET
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Ford Prefect
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 12:23 am    Post subject: Re: I wouldn't have posted if I didn't really need help Reply with quote

Having been a webmaster and a system administrator, I have read this message
before. All of the ISPs send a similar message. It's mostly rhetorical. I am
sorry if this bit of information or wisdom comes as a shock to you. Believe
me when I say, I feel the same way you, but I have learned thru hard
experience that their genuine concern just ain't there.
It's called CYA (COVER YOUR ASS).

Good luck
Ford
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