toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) (02/10/90)
So now we get pyramid schemes/chain letters over the net! :-( *REMEMBER* you will get bad luck if you break the chain! :-) (For those who don't know, these things are *illegal*, and they also *don't work* as only the people at the top of the list will ever see any money. If you're number 10 on the list, by the time you get to 5 the notice would have to be distributed to 111,110 BBS's. Not too likely. That also says something about the validity of the 10 names currently on the list. That lucky guy at the top of the list is going to get $1 each from people on 11,111,111,110 BBS's! Hey, this might be a great way to wipe out the national debt!) Tom Almy toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com Now, More Than Ever, Standard Disclaimers Apply
zweig@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (Johnny Zweig) (02/10/90)
[Totally bogus and illegal pyramid money-making scheme with "this is legal -- honest!" written all over it deleted.] I got something like this in the mail, and forwarded it to the Postal Inspector who is treating it like any other mail fraud. Notice that using a BBS and/or Usenet to distribute stuff like this could constitute wire fraud as well. I assume this posting was a joke. But as someone who busts his ass every day at a real job, I am not laughing at idiots like this bilking other idiots out of hard-earned dough. -Johnny Job
dewey@sequoia.UUCP (Dewey Henize) (02/10/90)
I found 4 separate postings by this dweeb in our queue. The ids I cancelled on our net were <2141@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <2144@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <2142@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <2143@ultb.isc.rit.edu> -- | Execucom and I often have different ideas. THESE are mine, ok? Ok. | | dewey@execu.com or uunet!sequoia!dewey | |Don't reword the question into such generality that it appears absurd, that's| |a puerile trick. -Barry Shein | But this IS Usenet!! - me |
turner@soleast.Solbourne.COM (James Turner) (02/12/90)
dewey@sequoia.UUCP (Dewey Henize) writes: >I found 4 separate postings by this dweeb in our queue. The ids I cancelled >on our net were ><2141@ultb.isc.rit.edu> ><2144@ultb.isc.rit.edu> ><2142@ultb.isc.rit.edu> ><2143@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Using the power of the American Telecommunications system, I got the number for RIT Information Services and hunted down the secretary for the director. I gave them a call and gave them the name and user ID of the jerk who sent out the chain letter. A mesages this morning indicates they have deleted his account. -- ******************************************************************************* * James M. Turner * Great moments in Aviation #4: * * System Engineer, Northeast Region * Controller Ray Darr breaks the all time * * Solbourne Computer, Inc. * record when he simultaneously vectors * * turner@Soleast.Solbourne.COM * 94 targets through the New York TCA. * * (617) 273-3313 * He is relieved from his shift when he * * GEnie: SF * orders a seagull to squawk 1200 * *******************************************************************************
bill@videovax.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden) (02/13/90)
Oh no, not again.
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