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    01s1rQlo Hi, My name is Robert J. Pellegrino.

    I'll make you a promise. READ THIS E-MAIL TO THE END ! -- THIS IS THE BEST MONEY MAKING SYSTEM OF ALL !!!

    $$$ TRUE STORY "AS SEEN ON ABC 20-20"- BOY 15 MAKES 71 THOUSAND IN 5 WKS!!

    Parents of 15-year-old find $71,000 cash hidden in his closet.

    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 15-year-old sons 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 had discovered. He came home right away and they drove together to the boys 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, a type of "Report" 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 5 addresses and contained instructions to send one $5 dollar bill to each person on the list, then delete the address at the bottom and move the others addresses down , and finally to add your name to the top of the list.

    The letter goes on to state that you would receive several thousand dollars in five-dollar bills within 2 weeks if you sent out the letter with your name at the top of the 5-address list. "I get junk E-mail all the time, and really did not think it was going to work", the boy continues.

    Within the first few days of sending out the E-mail, the Post Office Box that his parents had gotten him for his video-game magazine subscriptions began to fill up with not magazines, but envelopes containing $5 bills. "About a week later I rode [my bike] down to the post office and my box had 1 magazine and about 300 envelops stuffed in it. There was also a yellow slip that said I had to go up to the post office counter. I thought I was in trouble or something". 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 because I could not 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, barely had time for my homework". He had also been riding his bike to several of the banks in his area 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 would not 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)."

    In fact, the boy did not have any reason to be afraid. 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 state a product or service must be exchanged for money received.

    Below 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 this letter. __________________________________________________ __

    Dear Friends:

    Before you say ''Bull'', please read the following. This is the letter you have been hearing about on the news lately. Due to the popularity of this letter on the Internet, a national weekly news program recently devoted an entire show to the investigation of this program described below, to see if it really can make people money.

    ALL THANKS TO THE COMPUTER AGE AND THE INTERNET ! ==============================================
    The mail is almost 20000 charachters long and is a loong loony rehearsal of the same theme!!

    Anyone with a BRAIN can see that this wont work!
    It's the old "Pyramid" scam all over again!

    Same scam that (if I remember corectly) destroyed a whole countrys economic

    Wich explains why the swedish police used Swat teams and teargas to crash a gathering of "pyramiders" a few years ago


    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

  • #2
    Pyramid scams don't work unless your at the top.

    I say if it's too good to be true then it's not true. It's sad we have to think this way these days but it generally applies to everything.
    Titanium is the new bling!
    (you heard from me first!)

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    • #3
      I get a couple of these a week. Thank God for the "Delete" key!

      Kevin

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      • #4
        Actually the story about the kid is true - except it was NOT a pyramid scheme he was running.

        - Gurm
        The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

        I'm the least you could do
        If only life were as easy as you
        I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
        If only life were as easy as you
        I would still get screwed

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        • #5
          But the part about his parents believing anything is
          Juu nin to iro


          English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Gurm
            Actually the story about the kid is true - except it was NOT a pyramid scheme he was running.

            - Gurm
            Then what was he running?
            Arms?

            And I do not believe it! period!
            If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

            Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Technoid
              Then what was he running?
              Arms?

              And I do not believe it! period!
              Drugs seems more like it.

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              • #8
                No no. I'll have to dig it up as the details are eluding me. Many sources THOUGHT it was a pyramid scheme, but it was an exploit of some ebay loophole or something, IIRC.

                - Gurm
                The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

                I'm the least you could do
                If only life were as easy as you
                I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
                If only life were as easy as you
                I would still get screwed

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                • #9
                  Still don't think it was completely legal in any case
                  If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

                  Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

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