Illegal Pyramid Schemes (WAS: Just try this, it will work)

>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.unix.internals,comp.std.internat,comp.software.international,comp.infosystems.interpedia,comp.windows.interviews,comp.dcom.isdn,comp.sys.isis,comp.protocols.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 Xref: news.cybercomm.net comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech:43973 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted:31351 comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware:23287 comp.sys.ibm.sys3x.misc:809 comp.lang.icon:3491 comp.lang.idl:839 comp.lang.idl-pvwave:7581 comp.org.ieee:4983 comp.databases.informix:39718 comp.databases.ingres:22886 comp.sys.intel:104291 comp.sys.intel.ipsc310:240 comp.sys.intergraph:1933 comp.text.interleaf:5991 comp.unix.internals:12432 comp.std.internat:5939 comp.software.international:4614 comp.infosystems.interpedia:810 comp.windows.interviews:9582 comp.dcom.isdn:46061 comp.sys.isis:2087 comp.protocols.iso:8177 comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ:1981 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