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[Admin Edit: Don't bother reading this whole thing 'cause it's just a pile of spam but if you would like to rant about spam and people who think that this kind of thing works feel free to do so on this thread - Mac]
: LOTS OF CASH, FAST AND COMPLETELY LEGAL, THIS REALLY WORKS!!
: THIS REALLY CAN MAKE YOU EASY MONEY!! IT WORKS!!! BUT YOU
: HAVE TO FOLLOW IT TO THE LETTER FOR IT TO WORK!!!!
Yeah right - just 'cause you shout it doesn't make it true.
: A little while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like you are now, and came
: across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks
: with only an initial investment of $6.00! So I thought," Yeah, right, this must be a scam"
: but like most of us, I was curious, so I kept reading.
: Anyway, it said that you send $1.00 to each of the 6 names and address stated in the
: article. You then place your own name and address in the bottom of the list at #6, and
: post the article in at least 200 newsgroups. (There are thousands) No catch which it was I wonder what happened to the rest of this sentence?
: So after thinking it over, and talking to a few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured
: what have I got to lose except 6 stamps and $6.00, right? Like most of us I was a little
: skeptical and a little worried about the legal aspects of it
: all. So I checked it out with the U.S. Post Office (1-800-725-2161) and they confirmed
: that it is indeed legal! It would ONLY be illegal if you do not mail the $6 to the 6 different people. Then I invested the measly $6.00. Well GUESS WHAT!!... Within 7
: days, I started getting money in the mail! I was shocked! 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 of the
: second week I had made a total of over $1,000.00! In the third week I had over
: $10,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of
: just over $42,000.00 and it's still coming in rapidly. It's
: certainly worth $6.00, and 6 stamps, 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.
: A cousin of mine did this a few months back, and he is now enjoying life in his brand new Tahoe Sport!! So it does work!!
: STEP 1: Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of paper
: "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST." Now get 6 US $1.00 bills and place
: ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of paper so the bill will not be seen through the
: envelope to prevent thievery. Next, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and seal
: them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a
: piece of paper stating the above phrase, your name and address, and a $1.00 bill. What
: you are doing is creating a service by this. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL (honestly because it's in capital letters it's even more than legal!!!)! Mail the 6
: envelopes to the following addresses:
[addresses deleted]
: STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the other names up
: (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc...) and add YOUR Name as number 6 on the list. STEP
: 3: Change anything you need to, but try to keep this article similar to the original.
: Now, post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups. (I think there are close to
: 24,000 groups) All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the more money
: you make! ---DIRECTIONS -----HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS------------
: 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 computers memory. Step 2) Open a blank 'notepad' file and place
: your cursor at the top of the blank page. From the 'edit' menu select 'paste'. This will paste
: a copy of the letter into notepad so that you can add your name to the list. Step 3) Save
: your new notepad file as a .txt file. If you want to use a different settings for your postings, you'll always have this file to go back to.
: Step 4) Use Netscape or Internet explorer and try searching for various newsgroups
: (on-line
: forums, message boards, chat sites, discussions.) Step 5) 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!
: Congratulations...THAT'S IT! All you have to do is jump to different newsgroups and
: post away, after you get the hang of it, it will take about 30 seconds for each newsgroup!
: **REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE
: MONEY YOU WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF
: 200** that’s it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within days! You
: may eventually want to rent a P.O.Box due to the large amount of mail you will receive. If
: you wish to stay anonymous, you can invent a name to use, as
: long as the postman will deliver it. **JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE
: CORRECT.**
: Now the WHY part: Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low
: example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now, each of the 5
: persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each with my name
: at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me,
: now those 25 each make 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies
: each, I will bring in an additional
: $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post the MINIMUM 200 with my
: name at #3 and only receive 5 replies each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now
: here is the fun part, each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my
: name at #2 and they each only receive 5 replies, which just made me $3,125.00!!! Those
: 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups with my name at #1 and if
: still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive $15, 625,000! With an original
: investment of only $6.00! AMAZING! When your name is no longer on the list, you just
: take the latest posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the list,
: putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again. The thing to remember is:
: Do you realize that thousands of people all over the world are joining the internet and
: reading these articles everyday? JUST LIKE YOU are now!! So can you afford $6.00
: and see if it really works?? I think so... People have said, "what if the plan is played out
: and no one sends you
: the money? So what! What are the chances of that happening when there are tons of new
: honest users and new honest people who are joining the internet and newsgroups everyday
: and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day,
: with thousands of those joining the actual internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and
: HONESTLY and this will work.
: Also, for the skeptics, you're looking at this and thinking about doing it right? Imagine how many millions are looking and thinking the EXACT same thing!!
: Enjoy the money,
: Roy
: LOTS OF CASH, FAST AND COMPLETELY LEGAL, THIS REALLY WORKS!!
: THIS REALLY CAN MAKE YOU EASY MONEY!! IT WORKS!!! BUT YOU
: HAVE TO FOLLOW IT TO THE LETTER FOR IT TO WORK!!!!
Yeah right - just 'cause you shout it doesn't make it true.
: A little while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like you are now, and came
: across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks
: with only an initial investment of $6.00! So I thought," Yeah, right, this must be a scam"
: but like most of us, I was curious, so I kept reading.
: Anyway, it said that you send $1.00 to each of the 6 names and address stated in the
: article. You then place your own name and address in the bottom of the list at #6, and
: post the article in at least 200 newsgroups. (There are thousands) No catch which it was I wonder what happened to the rest of this sentence?
: So after thinking it over, and talking to a few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured
: what have I got to lose except 6 stamps and $6.00, right? Like most of us I was a little
: skeptical and a little worried about the legal aspects of it
: all. So I checked it out with the U.S. Post Office (1-800-725-2161) and they confirmed
: that it is indeed legal! It would ONLY be illegal if you do not mail the $6 to the 6 different people. Then I invested the measly $6.00. Well GUESS WHAT!!... Within 7
: days, I started getting money in the mail! I was shocked! 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 of the
: second week I had made a total of over $1,000.00! In the third week I had over
: $10,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of
: just over $42,000.00 and it's still coming in rapidly. It's
: certainly worth $6.00, and 6 stamps, 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.
: A cousin of mine did this a few months back, and he is now enjoying life in his brand new Tahoe Sport!! So it does work!!
: STEP 1: Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of paper
: "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST." Now get 6 US $1.00 bills and place
: ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of paper so the bill will not be seen through the
: envelope to prevent thievery. Next, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and seal
: them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a
: piece of paper stating the above phrase, your name and address, and a $1.00 bill. What
: you are doing is creating a service by this. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL (honestly because it's in capital letters it's even more than legal!!!)! Mail the 6
: envelopes to the following addresses:
[addresses deleted]
: STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the other names up
: (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc...) and add YOUR Name as number 6 on the list. STEP
: 3: Change anything you need to, but try to keep this article similar to the original.
: Now, post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups. (I think there are close to
: 24,000 groups) All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the more money
: you make! ---DIRECTIONS -----HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS------------
: 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 computers memory. Step 2) Open a blank 'notepad' file and place
: your cursor at the top of the blank page. From the 'edit' menu select 'paste'. This will paste
: a copy of the letter into notepad so that you can add your name to the list. Step 3) Save
: your new notepad file as a .txt file. If you want to use a different settings for your postings, you'll always have this file to go back to.
: Step 4) Use Netscape or Internet explorer and try searching for various newsgroups
: (on-line
: forums, message boards, chat sites, discussions.) Step 5) 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!
: Congratulations...THAT'S IT! All you have to do is jump to different newsgroups and
: post away, after you get the hang of it, it will take about 30 seconds for each newsgroup!
: **REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE
: MONEY YOU WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF
: 200** that’s it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within days! You
: may eventually want to rent a P.O.Box due to the large amount of mail you will receive. If
: you wish to stay anonymous, you can invent a name to use, as
: long as the postman will deliver it. **JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE
: CORRECT.**
: Now the WHY part: Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low
: example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now, each of the 5
: persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each with my name
: at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me,
: now those 25 each make 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies
: each, I will bring in an additional
: $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post the MINIMUM 200 with my
: name at #3 and only receive 5 replies each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now
: here is the fun part, each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my
: name at #2 and they each only receive 5 replies, which just made me $3,125.00!!! Those
: 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups with my name at #1 and if
: still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive $15, 625,000! With an original
: investment of only $6.00! AMAZING! When your name is no longer on the list, you just
: take the latest posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the list,
: putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again. The thing to remember is:
: Do you realize that thousands of people all over the world are joining the internet and
: reading these articles everyday? JUST LIKE YOU are now!! So can you afford $6.00
: and see if it really works?? I think so... People have said, "what if the plan is played out
: and no one sends you
: the money? So what! What are the chances of that happening when there are tons of new
: honest users and new honest people who are joining the internet and newsgroups everyday
: and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day,
: with thousands of those joining the actual internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and
: HONESTLY and this will work.
: Also, for the skeptics, you're looking at this and thinking about doing it right? Imagine how many millions are looking and thinking the EXACT same thing!!
: Enjoy the money,
: Roy
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Wow. I just wasted about eight breaths looking at this. Not counting the time spent wondering why something like this actually got posted. What a waste of time, bandwidth, ROM, RAM and space. I thought something useful might've actually gotten posted or requested.
The most pathetic part: someone actually thought they could make a buck or two by having software that would create a user account and post to this forum.
Unless someone posted this as performance art/commentary - in which case this strikes me as an extremely funny/sad way to express one's self. Nothing says culture has started collapsing in on itself like accelerating the process.
I miss San Francisco...
The most pathetic part: someone actually thought they could make a buck or two by having software that would create a user account and post to this forum.
Unless someone posted this as performance art/commentary - in which case this strikes me as an extremely funny/sad way to express one's self. Nothing says culture has started collapsing in on itself like accelerating the process.
I miss San Francisco...
Well, not exactly pathetic, but interesting: on a php-based forum, chock-full of the world's best PHP developers, nobody's hacked in a little "copy the text on the gif into the textbox" on the registration form. If bots sign up here more than once in a blue moon, maybe the admins will consider writing their version of the bot-control script, and posting the source? Just a thought..The most pathetic part: someone actually thought they could make a buck or two by having software that would create a user account and post to this forum.
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We get this kind of thing every so often - some people are truly stupid in believing it's going to make them loads of cash. But then there are estimates which say that there is at least one person each day sat in a hotel lobby in London waiting for the son of the uncle of the cousin of the former minister for sitting on vast hordes of money to turn up with loads of cash from Nigeria for them.
Mac
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I could just picture someone coming here for help making a spam bot in php, and then spamming the boards with his new code. "Irony", in every sense of the word...
I've never uderstood, why do spammers think that I'll open up "Make moj5483fney fast!"? Honestly..
"Re: the new files"
"EBAY SECRETS!!!!!!!gyg54k4j"
"Re: you never talk to me anymore!"
"Re: are you ingoring me?"
"stop paying for dept releif!"
"The server is down!"
.. Okay, I opened up that last one.
I've never uderstood, why do spammers think that I'll open up "Make moj5483fney fast!"? Honestly..
"Re: the new files"
"EBAY SECRETS!!!!!!!gyg54k4j"
"Re: you never talk to me anymore!"
"Re: are you ingoring me?"
"stop paying for dept releif!"
"The server is down!"
.. Okay, I opened up that last one.
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http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?t=9336

JPlush76 wrote:http://j-walk.com/blog/docs/conference.htm
I'll see you guys there!
Last time i looked
The last time I looked pyramid schemes where illegal, well at least in Canada.
Of course instead or spending the six bucks I can get coffe and donuts for two days and aleast know where my money went.
The sad part in my opinion is that some people will actually do this.
The old place add in newspaper "make money quickly send 1.00 plus SASE"
You get back "place add in paper that states 'make money quickly send 1.00 plus SASE'".
Lets try in out if I send every body who is a member of this phorum a dollar and they intern send every body on the phorum a dollar we could all make 5000 dollars real easy.
What you say?
phpScott
Of course instead or spending the six bucks I can get coffe and donuts for two days and aleast know where my money went.
The sad part in my opinion is that some people will actually do this.
The old place add in newspaper "make money quickly send 1.00 plus SASE"
You get back "place add in paper that states 'make money quickly send 1.00 plus SASE'".
Lets try in out if I send every body who is a member of this phorum a dollar and they intern send every body on the phorum a dollar we could all make 5000 dollars real easy.
What you say?
phpScott
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HOHO!
I'll tell you guys a nice story!
My father is a good man, in the sense of giving so much to others that it becomes an unhealthy thing to do. He has a bad heart today, pacemaker and all. But before that, he used to arrange help aid journeys to russia and romania with used clothes, shoes, toilets, dentist's chairs, stoves - all kinds of used things.
He has built up a network of nice people here in Sweden that gives a monthly financial gift to support that work. It started out with snailmail and all that, but has come to mass-email these days.
One time last summer, he accidently put all the recipients in the Cc: field instead of the Bcc: field.
One of the recipients did a just perfectly stupid and stupid thing.
He took use of all those email addresses (about 3000) and made a letter about making money very much alike the first post above. The "smart-but-evil" part is that he used my fathers HTML-email as a template! With my fathers logo, face-photo, colours typefaces and all that. and sent email to all my fathers list but, the stupid thing; this spammer included his own true email adress as sender!
Oh, my god what a turbulent place the computer became! Angry email from 3000 people to dad and a very easy job for us to get down to the cause of all this evil.
That is an example of the IQ-level of an email spammer.
I'll tell you guys a nice story!
My father is a good man, in the sense of giving so much to others that it becomes an unhealthy thing to do. He has a bad heart today, pacemaker and all. But before that, he used to arrange help aid journeys to russia and romania with used clothes, shoes, toilets, dentist's chairs, stoves - all kinds of used things.
He has built up a network of nice people here in Sweden that gives a monthly financial gift to support that work. It started out with snailmail and all that, but has come to mass-email these days.
One time last summer, he accidently put all the recipients in the Cc: field instead of the Bcc: field.
One of the recipients did a just perfectly stupid and stupid thing.
He took use of all those email addresses (about 3000) and made a letter about making money very much alike the first post above. The "smart-but-evil" part is that he used my fathers HTML-email as a template! With my fathers logo, face-photo, colours typefaces and all that. and sent email to all my fathers list but, the stupid thing; this spammer included his own true email adress as sender!
Oh, my god what a turbulent place the computer became! Angry email from 3000 people to dad and a very easy job for us to get down to the cause of all this evil.
That is an example of the IQ-level of an email spammer.