I received a letter claim to help me make $1000 a week
By kingparker
@kingparker (9673)
United States
January 10, 2010 11:29am CST
Scam! scam! and always scam. Why people don't use their time to do something good, instead of con people in every single way? They are the most despicable in our society.
I recently received a letter from someone who have absolutely no idea. He claimed that he has made over $80,000 for the past couple of months by applying this idea. He simply send this letter to everyone from the mailing company's mailing list. And ask people for $1 each, and tell people do the same to others. Base on luck, if you send out 100 of these letter, you might expect 10 out of that 100 will send you that money, and it just keep on going like that.
After reading it, it just make me laugh. So, that person basicly get my mailing address from those mailing company. I just discarded this letter immediately with a big laugh.
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2 responses
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
10 Jan 10
There's been emails like that in the past that I've heard others have received. Not sure that I have received it myself as I don't check said spam as I'm afraid it may open up a virus! In any case, It's funny to hear about these letters as while it may be somewhat effective, it would take some time, and would really be pointless!
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
10 Jan 10
No, the letter is not from electronic mail, it is from actual postal mail. Can you believe it? It just sent to my postal mailbox, and contain a envelopful of letter. One for instruction and his story, another one is a letter to tell me make some hundred copies of it, and spread it out to all other people. It would just waste of my precious time.
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
10 Jan 10
Oh I know you got it through postal mail, sorry for confusing you on that part. So their was a letter instructing you to copy his letter? Well wouldn't that benefit him and not you? How sad this world is becoming more corrupt, and money is the problem.
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
10 Jan 10
That particular scheme has been going around for longer than the Internet. It used to be done by sending letters to people explaining how to send $1 to the top name on the list and then copying the letter (usually 200 times), deleting the top address and adding yours at the bottom.
It's called a chain letter scheme or a 'round robin' and it is illegal in most countries. It continues to circulate from time to time (these days mostly by email and websites) and sometimes tries to protest that it's legal because the money you pay is supposed to be buying a 'service' (often access to a collection of e-books most of which are obtainable freely elsewhere).
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
10 Jan 10
I didn't see your later post that it was through the regular mail! Of course, what these people do it to go through the phone directory or any of a number of online directories, picking names and addresses at random.
The letter is often quite standard and gives a little story about the guy's 'unbelievable success' with the system and how he now owns a big house, a fast car and a yacht ... yada yada ... and how you, too, can do this by sending out 200 letters. In the United States it is illegal to mail chain letters that involve pyramid schemes or other such financial inducements under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1302, the Postal Lottery Statute, though chain letters that ask for items of minor value such as business cards or recipes are not covered by this law.
