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[carl brown]

To: "Carl Brown" <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 21:49:54 -0100
Subject: Fw: Parents of 15 Year Old
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> From: Dee <address@hidden>
> To: <@excelonline.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 11:39 PM
> Subject: Parents of 15 Year Old 
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > Subject: Parents of 15-year-old find $71,000 cash hidden in his closet
> > 
> > 
> > > Parents of 15-year-old find $71,000 cash hidden in his closet
> > >
> > > Does this headline look familiar? Of course it does. You most
> > > likely have just seen this story recently featured on a major
> > > nightly news program (USA).
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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-
> > > --------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > 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 bill wrapped in 2
> > > pieces of paper (to securely hide it), along with a note that
> > > says: "Please add me to your mailing list".
> > >
> > > 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. 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.
> > >
> > > Here is the list:
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > >1) Deanna Perron
> >     2547 poleline Rd. East
>>      Twin Falls , ID
>>  
> > >2) Larry Heavrin  
> > >   123 Shoreham Road
> > >   Spartanburg,SC 29307 
> 
>      3) Carl Brown    
>        331 Buckner PL.
>        Thomasville,nc 27360
> >  ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > 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.
> > > If you don't try it- you will never know.   
> > >Hope is worth the $5.  Better odds than the lottery gives you!
> > 
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