chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai) (03/22/91)
Bill Tway said: > Follow these instructions EXACTLY, and in 20 to 60 days you > will have received well over $50,000.00 cash, all yours. Uhh, this sounds horribly like a pyramid mailing scheme, which is strictly illegal...
edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (03/22/91)
In article <1991Mar21.185114.7325@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai) writes: >Bill Tway said: >> Follow these instructions EXACTLY, and in 20 to 60 days you >> will have received well over $50,000.00 cash, all yours. > >Uhh, this sounds horribly like a pyramid mailing scheme, which is >strictly illegal... It is illegal to send it through the US Mail, but that does not cover this, does it? -- Gerald A. Edgar Department of Mathematics Bitnet: EDGAR@OHSTPY The Ohio State University Internet: edgar@mps.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210 ...!{att,pyramid}!osu-cis!shape.mps.ohio-state.edu!edgar
dbert@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Douglas Siebert) (03/22/91)
In article <1991Mar21.194246.7885@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes: >In article <1991Mar21.185114.7325@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai) writes: >>Bill Tway said: >>> Follow these instructions EXACTLY, and in 20 to 60 days you >>> will have received well over $50,000.00 cash, all yours. >> >>Uhh, this sounds horribly like a pyramid mailing scheme, which is >>strictly illegal... > >It is illegal to send it through the US Mail, but that does not cover >this, does it? > The internet crosses state lines, which would make this a federal matter. And yes, it is *highly* illegal. You are talking not about six months in jail but 15-20 years in a federal prison. Please don't do this so we can all save our tax dollars for beneficial things (like NSF funding of the Internet!) rather than wasting it feeding and clothing yet another white collar criminal for a minimum of five years (with good behaviour) :) -- ________________________________________________________________________ Doug Siebert dbert@gnu.ai.mit.edu MBA Student (2nd year) The University of Iowa
rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi) (03/22/91)
tway@mwk.uucp (Bill Tway) writes:
[a lot of stuff about making $50,000 deleted]
Could someone tell me what this has to do Macintoshes. Anyone?
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+ rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au + robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) (03/22/91)
In article <1991Mar21.194246.7885@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes: >>> Follow these instructions EXACTLY, and in 20 to 60 days you >>> will have received well over $50,000.00 cash, all yours. >> >>Uhh, this sounds horribly like a pyramid mailing scheme, which is >>strictly illegal... > >It is illegal to send it through the US Mail, but that does not cover >this, does it? But if this pyramid e-mail scheme DID work, you would have some tens of thousands of email messages choking the system for the purpose NOT of disseminating information, but just to make $ for a few folks... -- * Rob Weinberg, graphics & publishing ***** Does a falling tree make a sound * * {uunet,pyramid}!infmx!robertw ***** if 1: no one hears it * * => Ask me about me. ***** BUT 2: it is not known that * * => Ask Informix about Informix. ***** no one hears it? *
francis@wolfman.cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) (03/23/91)
In article <1991Mar21.225547.2580@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi) writes: tway@mwk.uucp (Bill Tway) writes: [a lot of stuff about making $50,000 deleted] Could someone tell me what this has to do Macintoshes. Anyone? Roughly the same thing it has to do with the subjects in comp.sys.ibm.pc.<I-forget>, comp.sys.amiga.hardware, rec.video, etc. His news admin was notified, and has explained to him that this is completely inappropriate behavior. You might want to let your local sysadmins know about the message; they can "grep the history file for mwk, and should find 8-10 messages containing this stuff." Make sure you let them know the article number on the local machine, if you can; it will make their search-and-destroy mission much easier. RDF -- R David Francis francis@cis.ohio-state.edu
Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.fidonet.org.org (Jim Spencer) (03/24/91)
Douglas Siebert writes in a message to All >It is illegal to send it through the US Mail, but that does not cover >this, does it? > DS> The internet crosses state lines, which would make this a federal DS> matter. And yes, it is *highly* illegal. You are talking not DS> about six months in jail but 15-20 years in a federal prison. DS> Please don't do this so we can all save our tax dollars for beneficial DS> things (like NSF funding of the Internet!) rather than wasting DS> it feeding and clothing yet another white collar criminal for DS> a minimum of five years (with good behaviour) :) It is also illegal under most State laws as well. You are correct that it doesn't matter that its sent by electronic means rather than paper.