Re: Illegal Pyramid Schemes (IS pyramid Scheme - IS ILLEGAL)

Posted in 1996

James E. DeBalko — 1 Nov 1996 12:13:28 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

TAKE FIVE MINUTES AND YOU COULD END UP IN JAIL sikopam@ihateit.now wrote in article <327808d8.2594507@199.171.196.4>... : >On Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:44:01 GMT, sbolting@nemonet.com (Stephen Boltinghouse) wrote: : > : >Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. : > : > The Internet has grown tremendously. It doubles in size every 4 months. : > think about it. You see those 'Make.Money.Fast' posts more and more. : > That's ... because it WORKS ! So I thought, all those new users might : > make it work. And I decided to try it out, a few months ago. Besides, : > whats $5.00, I spend more than that in the morning on my way to work on : > coffee and cigs for the day. So I sent in my money and posted. : > Everyone was calling it a scam, but there are SO many new users from : > AOL, Netcom, etc. they will join in and make it work for you. : > : : [blah, blah, blah, all snipped] : : Here is the address and file to send to this idiot's ISP. : ___________________________________________________ : From sbolting@nemonet.com Tue Oct 29 18:44:01 1996 : Path:!uunet!in2.uu.net!xmission!mail.nemonet.com!sbolting : From: sbolting@nemonet.com (Stephen Boltinghouse) : Subject: Just try this, it will work : Newsgroups: (damn near all) : comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted,comp.sys.ibm.ps2. hardware,comp.sys.ibm.sys3x.misc,comp.lang.icon,comp.lang.idl,comp.lang.idl- pvwave,comp.org.ieee,comp.databases.informix,comp.databases.ingres,comp.sys. intel,comp.sys.intel.ipsc310,comp.sys.intergraph,comp.text.interleaf,comp.un ix.internals,comp.std.internat,comp.software.international,comp.infosystems. interpedia,comp.windows.interviews,comp.dcom.isdn,comp.sys.isis,comp.protoco ls.iso,comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ : Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 23:44:01 GMT : Message-ID: <21.9952477184124@news.nemonet.com> : NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.138.176.43 : X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 : X-Software: Multipost 1.1 : Lines: 143 : : : Take five minutes to read this and it WILL change your life. : : The Internet has grown tremendously. It doubles in size every 4 : months. : think about it. You see those 'Make.Money.Fast' posts more and : more. : That's ... because it WORKS ! So I thought, all those new users : might : make it work. And I decided to try it out, a few months ago. : Besides, : whats $5.00, I spend more than that in the morning on my way to : work on : coffee and cigs for the day. So I sent in my money and posted. : Everyone was calling it a scam, but there are SO many new users : from : AOL, Netcom, etc. they will join in and make it work for you. : : : : [blah, blah, blah snipped to conserve bandwidth] : Well, two weeks later, I began recieving bucks in the mail! I : couldn't : :