Here are scams to avoid!

• The chain-letter scam, a new varient

The Chain Letter Scam...A New Varient.

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Parents of 15 year old find $71,000 in CASH in
closet!

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Does this headline look familiar?  Of course it
does. You most likely have just seen this story
recently featured on a major nightly news
program (USA).

His mother was cleaning and putting laundry away
when she came across a large brown paper bag
that was suspiciously buried beneath some
clothes and a skateboard in the back of her
son's closet.  Nothing could have prepared her
for the shock she got when she opened the bag
and found it was full of cash.  Five dollar
bills, twenties, fifties and hundreds- all
neatly rubber-banded in labeled piles. "My first
thought was that he had robbed a bank", says the
41-year-old woman, "There was over $71,000
dollars in that bag- that's more than my husband
earns in a year." 

 
The woman immediately called her husband at the
car- dealership where he worked to tell him what
she'd discovered.  He came home right away and
they drove together to the boy's school and
picked him up. Little did they suspect that
where the money came from was more shocking than
actually finding it in the closet.

As it turns out, the boy had been sending out
via E-mail on the internet a type of 'chain-
letter' to E-mail addresses that he obtained off
of the internet.  Everyday after school for the
past 2 months, he had been doing this right on
his computer in his bedroom.

"I just got the E-mail one day and I figured
what the heck, I put my name on it like the
instructions said and I started sending it out",
says the clever 15-year-old.

The E-mail letter listed 3 addresses and
contained instructions to send one $5 dollar
bill to the person at the top of the list, then
delete that address and move the other 2
addresses up, and finally to add your name to
the bottom of the list.  The letter goes on to
state that you would receive several thousand
dollars in 5$ dollar bills within 2 weeks if you
sent out the letter with your name at the bottom
of the 3-address list "I get junk E- mail all
the time, and I really didn't think it was gonna
work", the boy continues. 

 

Within the first few days of sending out the E-
mail, the Post Office Box that his parents had
gotten for his video-game magazine subscriptions
began to fill up with not magazines, but
envelopes containing $5 dollar bills. "about a
week later I rode (my bike) down to the post
office and my box had 1 magazine and about 300
envelopes stuffed in it.  There was a yellow
slip that said I had to go up to the (post
office) counter- I thought I was in trouble or
something (laughs)".  He goes on, "I went up to
the counter and they had a whole box of more
mail for me.  I had to ride back home and empty
out my backpack 'cause I couldn't carry it all".


Over the next few weeks, the boy continued
sending out the E-mail. "The money just kept
coming in and I just kept sorting it and
stashing it in the closet, I barely had time for
my homework". He had also been riding his bike
to several of the area's banks and exchanging
the $5 bills for twenties, fifties and hundreds.
"I didn't want the banks to get suspicious so I
kept riding to different banks with like five
thousand at a time in my backpack. I would
usually tell the lady at the bank counter that
my dad had sent me in (to exchange the money)
and he was outside waiting for me.  One time the
lady gave me a really strange look and told me
that she wouldn't be able to do it for me and my
dad would have to come in and do it, but I just
rode to the next bank down the street (laughs)".

Surprisingly, the boy didn't have any reason to
be afraid.  The reporting news team examined and
investigated the so-called 'chain-letter' the
boy was sending out and found that it wasn't a
chain-letter at all.  In fact, it was completely
legal according to US Postal and 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 states a product or service must be
exchanged for money received.

Every five dollar bill that he received
contained a little note that read, "Please add
me to your mailing list".  This simple note made
the letter legal because he was exchanging a
service (adding the purchasers name to his
mailing list) for a five dollar fee.  Here is
the letter that the 15-year-old was sending out
by E-mail, you can do the exact same thing he
was doing, simply by following the instructions
in the letter.
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Here are instructions on how to make $10,000 US
cash in the next 2 weeks:

There are 3 addresses listed below.

Send the person at the top of the list a $5 bill
wrapped in 2 pieces of paper (to securely hide
it), along with a note that says: "Please add me
to your list".

Then delete that name, move the other 2 up and
put your name at the bottom. 

 
Now start sending this ENTIRE E-mail back out to
people. When 20 people receive it, those 20
people will move your name up to the middle
position and they will each send out 20.  That
totals 400 people that will receive this letter
with your name in the middle. Then, those 400
people will move your name to the top and they
will each sen you a $5 bill.

8,000 people each sending you a $5 bill =
$40,000 cash. That's if everyone responds to
this E-mail, but not everyone will, so you can
expect more realistically to receive about
$10,000 cash $5 bills in your mailbox.

This will work for anyone, anywhere in the world
in any country, but send only a US CASH $5 bill.

The more E-mails you send out, the more cash you
will receive.  If each person sends out 100 E-
mails, there will be 1,000,000 people that
receive this letter when your name reaches the
top.  If only 1% of those people respond, you
will get $50,000 cash.

Here is the list:
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1) deleted 2) deleted 3) deleted

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THERE'S NOTHING MORE TO DO!  When your name
reaches the top in a few days, you will start
receiveing $5 bills from other people just like
yourself, who are willing to invest a $5 bill to
receive $10,000 cash.

If you don't try it-you will never know!