Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 21 Jan 1997.
NEED MONEY? TRY THIS ...
alt.ascii-art
· 1 message · 21 Jan 1997
Need Money? Try this ...
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I've never played any type of lottery, I tend to be skeptical of
things that appear to be scams that offer something for nothing or
sound too good to be true, and although I've seen these messages
before, I would have also ignored this one had I not been impressed by
the straightforward way in which it was presented. I personally do
not require a lot of needless convincing, just the essential
information with clear and direct wording from which I can make a
decision.
Although not a guarantee for anyone else, in only a few days after
following the instructions outlined below, $1.00 bills began to appear
in my mailbox.
What follows is the five $1.00 bills concept, explained without the
hype, but with all of the required information included. It
represents an honest, equitable and legitimate way of making money on
a regular basis. By carefully reading and executing the following
steps you will be joining the many thousands of users who are
currently earning quite large sums of money by doing a few hours work
using only their computers and the Internet!
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This posting has been appearing for quite some time and has now
literally got many thousands of people actively involved. Like me,
you may have seen it before and become a little confused by the way it
was explained. I personally have never believed in a so-called "free
lunch" and have always worked hard to support my family. But this
idea is so simple, involving a modest $5.00 investment, that I just
had to try it. With so many people involved I became convinced that I
too could benefit. And, as I found out, this system really does work!
After about two weeks in, I'm beginning to get a reasonable and
realistic return with a further understanding of just how big this
concept really is. Money is coming in from all over the world!
If you're interested, there are three basic steps, all of which are
fairly simple.
STEP ONE OF THREE.
Start by taking five blank sheets of paper, five envelopes, and five
$1.00 bills. Write your name and address on each piece of paper along
with the words: "Please place me on your mailing list.". Then take
each piece of paper, fold it and place a one dollar bill inside,
insert them into the envelopes and mail them to the five names listed
below.
PLEASE NOTE: By asking to be placed on each person's mailing list, you
are in fact paying for a service that consists of using the Internet
to advertise a business dealing with assembling a mailing list of
people who are interested in working from home using their computers
to generate an income.
Mail to:
1. L Valdez
P.O. Box 330, Fintas
51001 STATE OF KUWAIT
2. Brandon Perrin
1000 W. Valley Ridge Blvd.
Apt. 6102
Lewisville, TX 75067
3. John Pontius
P.O. box 874407
Wasilla, AK 99687
4. Ned Horsfall
P.O. Box 298
Baltic, OH 43804
5. David Bailey
P.O. Box 1447
Boston, MA 02205
When you have mailed your messages and one dollar bills **(Please do
not send checks or money orders)** to the people above, go to the
second step:
STEP TWO OF THREE.
Remove the top name and address (1.) from the above list. Renumber
the list so that 2. Through 5., becomes 1. Through 4. Now insert
your own name and address in the last position and number it 5. The
old second name becomes the new top name, the old third name becomes
the new second name, and so on. This can be done simply by amending
the address section with no other alterations and posting as described
later, or you can retype the whole document adding information you
feel may be important.
STEP THREE OF THREE.
Post this message with your name in position number 5. to at least 250
newsgroups.
HERE IS HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS AND WHY IT IS SO SUCCESSFUL!!!
As you are probably aware, the Internet is growing daily at a
phenomenal rate. It is estimated to double every year. With
literally millions and millions of people surfing the Net there is the
potential for tremendous exposure. With thousands of Newsgroups to
post to and hundreds of thousands of people dialing in to them every
day, if done correctly, this procedure can't help but be successful.
There are over 19,000 newsgroups at any given moment in time. For
every block of 200 posts you make, on average you�ll get back 5
responses. Yes, that's right, only 5. You make $5.00 in cash, not
checks or money orders, but real cash with your name at position
number 5. Not a large sum, but wait ...
Each of the five people who sent you $1.00 now also makes 200
additional postings with your name at position number 4. That�s 1,000
postings. On average then, 50 people will send you $1.00 with your
name at position number 4., and that's $50.00 in your pocket!
Now these 50 new people will make 200 postings each with your name at
position number 3., or 10,000 postings. Average return, 500 people
equaling $500. They make 200 postings each with your name at position
number 2., or 100,000 postings equaling 5,000 returns at $1.00 each,
or $5,000.00 in cash!
Finally, 5,000 people make 200 postings each with your name at
position number 1. And you get a return of $50,000 before your name
drops off the list. And that's only if everyone down the line makes
only 200 postings each! Your total income before your name drops off
the list is $55,000.
From time to time when you see your name is no longer on the list, you
take the latest posting you can find and start all over again. For a
better return, post to more than 250 newsgroups initially.
The end result depends on you. You must follow through and repost this
article everywhere you can think of.
GENERAL STEPS ON AUTOMATING THE PROCESS:
Make any necessary changes to this article as explained in STEP TWO
and when you're done, save it as a text file to your word processor.
Highlight the entire article and copy it to the Clipboard.
Next, locate the newsgroups you intend to post to (Netscape 3.0 is
terrific for this because you can highlight dozens of newsgroups all
at once, enabling you to distribute your message to 1,000s of
locations in less than an hour or two). Highlight all the newsgroups
you want to post to, which is done by holding down CTRL while clicking
your left mouse button. This way you can select multiple newsgroups
in one go. Then after highlighting the newsgroups, click on "To
News". Place a sensible title in the "Subject" location, click on the
text section, go to the Edit menu and click "Paste". Click on "Send",
and that's it.
Repeat the process over and over again by selecting further newsgroups
in multiples of 10s, but try to be selective with the groups by
posting to high volume locations, and don't choose a subject that
appears too flashy, as this will only put people off.
This is an honest and legitimate way of making a reasonable amount of
money on a regular basis, but only if your message is clearly
understood by others.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This system is based on everyone being honest. It's
all too tempting not to send out the initial $5.00, but if you don't,
you won't be successful. THIS SYSTEM REALLY WORKS! Give it a try and
you won't be disappointed.
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