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On Mon, 02 Dec 1996 22:10:03 -0800, you wrote:
>I'd appreciate some feedback on it, contributions of other countries' data,
>contributions of the stupidest or worst MMF scheme you've seen, etc.

I loved it! The math doesn't seem to check out on some of them, but my math always falls apart anyway. The Cybers-burg Address was excellent.

If you could add a link to the right e-mail at the IRS and a how-to mail to postal inspectors (no stamp - just postal inspector and the town/ZIP from the list of fools - and it gets there.)

Years ago, a chain letter circulated among secretaries - Picture the MMF chain, but the idea was to hogtie your boss or supervisor and mail him/her to the name at the top of the list.

When your name reached the top, you would recieve a couple thousand hogtied bosses from which you could probably find one better than you did the one you shipped out, or at least one who would give you a raise.

Erma Bombeck proposed the same thing ... but with teenagers. Moms could send off their adolescent offspring to the top name on the list and select from the incoming thousands.

Callie

The MMF post has been annoying me since about 1990 when it was "Dave Rhodes" circulating posts on local BBS's. Thanks for your great page!

One thing that you forgot to mention, though, is that in current posts the guy usually says that on the 3rd week, he has $10,000.00 and by the 4th week he has $42,000.00. Meaning he's opened 32,000 pieces of mail within a week.

There are only about 15,000 minutes in a week, so on the 4th week, he's opening 2 pieces of mail per minute, EVERY minute. When you take the time to consider sleeping, eating, going to Grade 6, etc. thjat these people have to do, it's virtually impossible that they've opened that much mail.

- Drew
Note: see my note on the next letter...

Of all spam, and I am acquainted with much of it, MMF schemes are BY FAR the WORST!!!!! Nice analysis of the standard letter but you left out something important:

"Markus Valppu says he made $57,883 in four weeks. "

There are 6 days a week the USPS delivers mail.

6*4=24 days over 4 weeks that Marcus recieved his money.

57,883/24= 2,411 pieces of mail EVERY DAY!!!!!!

And the mailman didnt get suspicious??????!!!!!!

Similar arguments can be made for the rest of the people that "made"

money....... BTW, do you know the name of the guy that's in jail that invented this scam?????

Later!

Note: Well of course they weren't suspicious... this is legal, remember??? Heheh - you apparently either missed the place where I address this in one of the destructions I do, or happened to see the page before I added that tidbit myself. But thanks for the input anyway! I've torn another one apart in this way here. BTW, it was Dave Rhodes.

Hi how are you?
I just read your page about chain letters, and would like to tell you that you are doing a great thing by having this page. When I first got on the net I fell for the chainletter scam, lucky for me i only got a warning from my ISP and also only posted to about 25 newsgroups. I feel these chain letters are wrong and do prey on net newbies. Very funny disection of the letter to, you made me feel like an idiot, i guess when i read it i was in a trance thanks for waking me up :)

Thanks for listening

>"I was scanning thru a NEWSGROUP and saw an article stating to GET CASH FAST!! I
>thought... Here on the Internet?? Well, I'll just have to see what schemes could possibly be on
>the internet."

> Same as they are everywhere else. I think Moses got one of these things - you
> know, "Take this thou list, send it thense to 5 other people, include one of thine
> goats and a stone tablet saying 'please includest thou me on thine commandment
> mailing list.' You shalt then within thy very next month make 50,000 goats."

bwahahahah!!!!!! I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I read that one!!!!!! I see you don't have the thee-thou-thines down properly, but what the heck, it was hilarious anyway!!

Great! Loved it.

Karl

Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 10:49:46 -0800
Subject: web page

Thank you, thank you, thank you. A million times over. Your efforts on this web page are a true service to all netizens.

Jack Kealy

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