His mother was cleaning and putting laundry away when she
came across a large brown paper bag that was suspiciously
buried beneath some clothes and a skateboard in the back of
her 15-year-old son's closet. Nothing could have prepared her
for the shock she got when she opened the bag and found it
was full of cash. Five dollar bills, twenties, fifties and
hundreds - all neatly rubber-banded in labeled piles.
"My first thought was that he had robbed a bank", says the
41-year-old woman, "There was over $71,000 dollars
in that bag- that's more than my husband earns in a year".
The woman immediately called her husband at the
car-dealership where he worked to tell him what she'd
discovered. He came home right away and they drove together
to the boy's school and picked him up. Little did they suspect
that where the money came from was more shocking than
actually finding it in the closet.
As it turns out, the boy had been sending out via E-mail on the
Internet a type of 'chain-letter' to E-mail addresses that he
obtained off of the Internet. Everyday after school for the past
2 months, he had been doing this right on his computer in his
bedroom.
"I just got the E-mail one day and I figured what the heck, I put
my name on it like the instructions said and I started sending it
out", says the clever 15-year-old.
The E-mail letter listed 3 addresses and contained instructions
to send one $5 dollar bill to the person at the top of the list,
then delete that address and move the other 2 addresses up, and
finally to add your name to the bottom of the list. The letter
goes on to state that you would receive several thousand
dollars in five dollar bills within 2 weeks if you sent out the
letter with your name at the bottom of the 3-address list "I get
junk E-mail all the time, and I really didn't think it was gonna
work", the boy continues.
Within the first few days of sending out the E-mail, the Post
Office Box that his parents had gotten him for his video-game
magazine subscriptions began to fill up with not magazines,
but envelopes containing $5 dollar bills.
"About a week later I rode [my bike] down to the post office
and my box had 1 magazine and about 300 envelopes
stuffed in it. There was also a yellow slip that said I had to go
up to the [post office] counter- I thought I was in trouble or
something (laughs)". He goes on, "I went up to the counter
and they had a whole box of more mail for me. I had to ride
back home and empty out my backpack 'cause I couldn't carry
it all".
Over the next few weeks, the boy continued sending out the
E-mail. "The money just kept coming in and I just kept sorting
it and stashing it in the closet, I barely had time for my
homework". He had also been riding his bike to several of the
area's banks and exchanging the $5 bills for twenties, fifties
and hundreds. "I didn't want the banks to get suspicious so I
kept riding to different banks with like five thousand at a time
in my backpack. I would usually tell the lady at the bank
counter that my dad had sent me in [to exchange the money]
and he was outside waiting for me. One time the lady gave me
a really strange look and told me that she wouldn't be able to
do it for me and my dad would have to come in and do it, but
I just rode to the next bank down the street (laughs)."
Surprisingly, the boy didn't have any reason to be afraid. The
reporting news team examined and investigated the so-called
'chain-letter' the boy was sending out and found that it wasn't a
chain-letter at all. In fact, it was completely legal according to
US Postal and Lottery Laws, Title 18, Section 1302 and 1341,
or Title 18, Section 3005 in the US code, also in the code of
federal regulations, Volume 16, Sections 255 and 436, which
state a product or service must be exchanged for money
received. Like most of us If you are a little worried
about the legal aspects of it all. Check it out with
the U.S. Post Office (1-800-725-2161) and they will confirm
that it is indeed legal.
Every five dollar bill that he received contained a little note
that read, "Please add me to your mailing list". This simple
note made the letter legal because he was exchanging a service
(adding the purchasers name to his mailing list) for a five
dollar fee.
Here is the letter that the 15-year-old was sending out by
E-mail, you can do the exact same thing he was doing, simply
by following the instructions in this letter-
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Here are instructions on how to make $10,000 US cash in the
next 2 weeks:
There are 3 addresses listed below.
Send the person at the top of the list a $5 UNITED STATES BILL
wrapped in 2 pieces of paper (to securely hide it), along with
a note that says: "Please add me to your mailing list" (Also,
it might be a good idea to wrap the $5 bill in dark paper to
reduce the risk of mail theft.)
Then delete that name, move the other 2 up and put your name
at the bottom.
Now start sending this ENTIRE e-mail back out to people.
When 20 people receive it, those 20 people will move your
name up to the middle position and they will each send out 20
e-mails. That totals 400 people that will receive this letter
with your name in the middle.
Then, those 400 people will move your name up to the top and
they will each send out 20 e-mails. That totals 8,000 people
that will receive this E-mail with your name at the top and they
will each send you a $5 bill.
8,000 people each sending you a $5 bill = $40,000 cash. That's
if everyone responds to this E-mail, but not everyone will, so
you can expect more realistically to receive about $10,000 cash
$5 bills in your mailbox.
This will work for anyone, anywhere in the world in any
country, but send only a US CASH $5 bill.
The more E-mails you send out, the more cash you will
receive. If each person sends out 100 E-mails, there will be
1,000,000 people that receive this letter when your name
reaches the top. If only 1% of those people respond, you will
still get $50,000 cash.
Your best bet would be to post your message on newsgroups where
you can easily reach millions of people without having to spend
days e-mailing.
---DIRECTIONS ----- FOR HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS------------
Step 1) You do not need to re-type this entire letter to do your
own posting. Simply put your cursor at the beginning of this
letter and drag your cursor to the bottom of this document, and
select 'copy' from the edit menu. This will copy the entire
letter into the computer's memory.
Step 2) Open a blank 'notepad' file and place your cursor at the
top of the blank page. From the 'edit' menu select 'paste'. This
will paste a copy of the letter into notepad so that you
can add your name to the list.
Step 3) Save your new notepad file as a .txt file. If you want to
do your postings in different settings, you'll always have this
file to go back to.
Step 4) Use Netscape or Internet explorer and try searching for
various newsgroups (on-line forums, message boards, chat sites,
discussions.)
Step 5) Visit these message boards and post this article as a new
message by highlighting the text of this letter and selecting paste
from the edit menu. Fill in the Subject, this will be the header
that everyone sees as they scroll through the list of postings in
a particular group, click the post message button. You're done with
your first one! Congratulations...THAT'S IT! All you have to do is
jump to different newsgroups and post away, after you get the hang of
it, it will take about 30 seconds for each newsgroup!
**REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL
MAKE! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200** That's it! You will
begin receiving money from around the world within days!
You may eventually want to rent a P.O.Box due to the large
amount of mail you will receive.
***JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.***
Here is the list:
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1 Nick Alexandris
554 Dovercourt Road
Toronto Ontario, Canada
M6H 2W6
2 Chris Cormpilas
69 GlenWatford Drive
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M1S 2C4
3 Henry Duarte
1048 Dovercourt Road
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M6H 2X8
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THERE'S NOTHING MORE TO DO. When your name
reaches the top in a few days, you will start receiving $5 bills
from other people just like yourself, who are willing to invest a
$5 bill to receive $10,000 cash.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained