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Does anyone anything about this? Is it UL or just a scam? ;)

A Fun Way To Make Money!

Dear Friend:
I'm giving this a try in faith like lots of others have and I hope you will too!

I hear the rewards are unbelievable. Please read on:

A little while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investment of $6.00! So I thought, Yeah right, this must be a scam, but like most of us, I was curious, so I kept reading. Anyway, it said that you send $1.00 to each of the 6 names and address stated in the article. You then place your own name and address in the bottom of the list at #6, and post the article in at least 200 message boards/newsgroups. (There are thousands) No catch, that was it. So after thinking it over, and talking to a few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured: what have I got to lose except 6 stamps and $6.00, right? Then I invested the $6.00. Well GUESS WHAT!!... Within 7 days, I started getting money in the mail! I was shocked! I figured it would end soon, but the money just kept coming in. In my first week, I made about $25.00. By the end of the second week I had made a total of over $1,000.00! In the third week I had over $10,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over $42,000.00 and it's still coming in rapidly. It's certainly worth $6.00, and the 6 stamps. Let me tell you how this works and most importantly, why it works.... Also, make sure you print a copy of this article NOW, so you can get the information off of it, as you need it. I promise you that if you follow the directions exactly, that you will start making more money than you thought possible by doing something so easy! Suggestion: Read this entire message carefully! (Print it out or download it.) Follow the simple directions and watch as the money comes in! It's easy. It's legal. And, your investment is only $6.00 (Plus postage). IMPORTANT: This is not a rip-off; it is not indecent; it is not illegal; and it is virtually no risk - it really works!!!! If all of the following instructions are adhered to, you will receive extraordinary dividends. PLEASE NOTE: Please follow these directions EXACTLY. This program remains successful because of the honesty and integrity of the participants. Please continue its success by carefully adhering to the instructions. You will now become part of the Mail Order business. In this business your product is not solid and tangible- it's a service. You are in the business of developing Mailing Lists. Many large corporations are happy to pay big bucks for quality lists. However, the money made from the mailing lists is secondary to the income, which is made from people like you and me asking to be included in that list. Here are the steps to success:

STEP 1: Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of paper: "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST" with Your Name and Address included.
STEP 2: Now get 6 US $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of paper so the bill will not be seen through the envelope (to prevent it from being stolen). Next, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and seal them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece of paper stating the above phrase, your name and address, and a $1.00 bill. What you are doing is creating a service. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! You are requesting a legitimate service and you are paying for it! Like most of us I was a little skeptical and a little worried about the legal aspects of it all. I checked it out with the U.S. Post Office (1-800-725-2161) and they confirmed that it is indeed legal! Mail the 6 envelopes to the following addresses:
#1) Abe Husein 2180 NE Parvin Rd Kansas City MO 64116
#2) Donna Owen 1996 Village Drive Hayes, VA 23072
#3) Sedric Withers 420 Markham Mesa PL k59 little Rock AR 72211
#4) Leo da Lion 60-34 78th Ave. Glendale NY 11385
#5) Robert Medaris 4121 Maycox Ct, Virginia Beach, Va 23453
#6) Steve Wilson 1304 NW 181st St, Edmond, OK 73003

STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the other names up (#6 becomes #5, #5 becomes #4, etc...) and add YOUR NAME as number 6 on the list.

STEP 3: Change anything you need to, but try to keep this article as close to original as possible. Now, post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups. (There are thousands across the Internet) All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the more money you make!

This is perfectly legal! If you have any doubts, refer to Title 18 Sec.1302 & 1341 of the Postal lottery laws. Keep a copy of these steps for yourself and, whenever you need money, you can use it again, and again. PLEASE REMEMBER that this program remains successful because of the honesty and integrity of the participants and by their carefully adhering to the directions. Look at it this way. If you are of integrity, the program will continue and the money that so many others have received will come your way.
NOTE: You may want to retain every name and addresses sent to you, either on a computer or hard copy and keep a record of monies received and the notes people send you for tax purposes. This VERIFIES that you are truly providing a service. (Also, it might be a good idea to wrap the $1 bill in dark paper to reduce the risk of mail theft.) So, as each post is downloaded and the directions carefully followed, six members will be reimbursed for their participation as a List Developer with one dollar each. Your name will move up the list geometrically so that when your name reaches the #1 position you will be receiving thousands of dollars in CASH!!! What an opportunity for only $6.00 ($1.00 for each of the first six people listed above) Send it now, add your own name to the list and you're in business!

******* DIRECTIONS --- 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 or wordpad 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 or wordpad 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.) (Just example you log on any search engine like yahoo.com, google.com, mamma.com, search.com, altavista.com or excite.com then you search with this subject: money making message board or money making discussions or money making forum or money making venture or fast money, etc... You will find lots of message boards.
(Step 5) Visit these message boards and post this article as a new message by highlighting the text of your letter, right click on your mouse and copy, then right click in the message box and select paste. Fill in the Subject...(be creative). 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 PO Box due to the large amount of mail you will receive. **JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT** Now the WHY part: Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now, each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part, each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at #2 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00!!! Those 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups with my name at #1 and if still 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive $15,625,00! With an original investment of only $6.00! That's AMAZING!
When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again. The thing to remember is: do you realize that thousands of people all over the world are joining the internet and reading these articles everyday?, JUST LIKE YOU are now!! So ~ get your name on the list, give it a try like so many others have and watch what happens. Share the wealth HONESTLY and this will really work for us all. Just remember "You Reap what You Sow." and May God Bless Your honesty!
 
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Scam.

It's a bog-standard pyramid scheme. They don't work because the number of people you'd need to keep the money circulating increases geometrically at each stage and within very few iterations you'd need the entire population of the world to keep it going. These scheme collapse fairly rapidly.

A few people at the start of the scheme might make money, most lose money.

There was a similar scheme Women Empowering Women a few years back. There's bit on this page explained why these things don't work. The money staked in this scheme was a lot higher, but the way the numbers of participants you need to keep it going pile up is exactly the same.

If eight people invest £3,000 each in a scheme and then progress through the levels of the pyramid, they will each expect to receive £24,000 when they reach the final top. For each of those eight people to receive that amount, it will be necessary for 64 people to have each invested £3000.

Each of those 64 investors will be expecting to collect their £24,000, but that would mean that 512 people would have to have invested. Subsequent investors would need 4,096 participants, then 32,768 participants, then 262,144 participants and so on. In simple terms, each participant needs another eight investors in the scheme to get their money back and make a return.

The supply of potential investors will dry up, leaving the majority of people in the scheme having paid out a large sum and receiving nothing in return.

Another link for Pyramid Scams
 
A quick google on 'Title 18 Sec.1302 & 1341 of the Postal lottery laws', gives very many results, all with the same or very same wording. So there are many, many suckers out there, as there always have been and always will be.

Out of interest, do you know the 'Steve Wilson' in number five slot, and was it them who sent this to you?
 
Do any of these work? Does anyone know anyone who has made money with pyramid schemes/ betting formulas/ wheeling systems/ turnkey incomes/ residual income etc? Its all ULs..... right??
 
They're all a con, yes.
There is no miracle method for making money, sadly.
 
Just send me a £25 administration charge and I'll tell you the answer.

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people do get rich with these schemes... but only the originators. so the key is start your own scheme and don't sign up to anyone else's... :lol:

i remember a story way back on "that's life" about a bloke who sold instructions for ensuring you never got another phone bill as long as you lived... people gladly paid their £50 or whatever and were sent instructions which amounted to:

1) call phone company
2) ask for phone line to be removed

the police couldn't touch him as he delivered what he promised.

anyone heard any more like that...?
 
It used to be possible to set up a premium phone line with a recorded message which mugly folks could ring for bogus information but I dunno if that is still done now.
 
Round here, lots of middle-aged ladies seem to be selling Aloe Vera products to each other as part of some kind of pyramid scheme. It hasn't made any of them rich so far, yet still they witter about a friend of a friend who got rich on "cactus juice" :?
 
As part of his dubious rise -early in his "career", the porn baron and currently Chairman of Birmingham Football Club David Sullivan once placed an advert for several hundred pictures of naked ladies etc for a fat fee, of course.

What was sent were hundreds of pictures, but he never said they would all be different so many were simply the same pics repeated.
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Was it Sullivan who advertised in dodgy magazines promising pictures of "women with animals" for money, then sending out photos of young ladies and Alsatians playing with frisbees, jogging along the beach, etc? Worst tenner I ever spent - er, I mean, serves them right!
 
Back during the Cabbage Patch Kids craze during the 80s when they were in high demand and hard to find I remember reading about a guy who was arrested for putting an ad in the paper that said something like:

"Want your own Cabbage Patch in time for Christmas? Only $29.95!"

People who sent in their money received a packet of cabbage seeds.
 
A very reputable source (well, okay, the local paper) once reported that some guy had made a lot of money promising to send respondents "A FANTASTIC DEVICE WHICH CAN CUT YOUR PHONE BILLS IN HALF..."

That's right, a pair of scissors...
 
Ouch!

Necropants, Made From Dead Man's Skin, At Center Of Icelandic Legend (NSFW)

If you thought skinny pants were a new trend, think again -- they've been around in Iceland since the 17th century.

Legend has it that you'd be gifted with an endless money supply if you were to flay a corpse from the waist down and wear the skin -- hair, genitalia and all -- as pants, io9 reports. Icelandic mystics called them nábrók, or "necropants."

Many news outlets are inaccurately reporting that Strandagaldur, The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft owns the last pair of necropants. In actuality the museum has a (terrifying) replica, seen below...

More from the Huffington Post, here. (Maybe NSFW, especially if it's bacon sandwich time.)

As I said...Ouch!

See Also:
Nábrók (Necropants; Corpse Britches)
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/nábrók-necropants-corpse-britches.68210/
 
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Since we are in urban legends...

What about the bloke who advertised for $25 or some such a pamphlet called '50 ways to make yourself rich' in US magazines and newspapers?

Item 1 in the list:

Produce a pamphlet entitled '50 ways to make yourself rich' and advertise it in newspapers and magazines.
 
My mother claimed cira 1970s that her auntie fell for something like that, the advert in the papers said "Want to know how to make money? Send 50p for details".

Then when she sent her money, she got back a note reading "Do what I do!"
 
OneWingedBird said:
My mother claimed cira 1970s that her auntie fell for something like that, the advert in the papers said "Want to know how to make money? Send 50p for details".

Then when she sent her money, she got back a note reading "Do what I do!"

I can confirm that this kind of thing went on. Years ago, I saw an ad in Exchange and Mart and sent off a pound. In return, I got a photocopied sheet which basically said the same, i.e. 'do what I do'. D'oh! :x I didn't fall for that one again.
 
I almost got stung with a pyramid selling type scheme a long long time ago. But after sitting down with a piece of paper making diagrams, I worked out that some names at the bottom would never be removed, yours, however would.

If you hadn't heard of it, it sounded really appealing, until you work out the logic of it.
 
Millions of Albanians soberly nod their heads.
 
Not a get rich scheme as such but a few years ago, I won about £3500 playing online roulette. I put in £300 off a credit card, and managed to build my account up to just over £8000 at one stage. I used to withdraw my winnings in instalments of £500. One night I started losing, chasing losses etc and ended up with about £1900 left, so I withdrew the balance and never played again. It was nice while it lasted though.

And please, don't try this at home kids. A lot of the online casinos have changed their stake limits and I'm sure some of them have 'adjusted' their software so it's harder to win.
 
I remember seeing a TV interview some years ago with a guy who 'earned' good money from online gambling. The general idea was, that you could only make it successful if you didn't actually derive much enjoyment from it. His system involved very strict self-imposed limits on investment, regardless of how much he was winning or losing at the time said limit was reached. I guess someone who genuinely liked gambling would be fairly incapable of such self-discipline.
 
RyoHazuki said:
........The general idea was, that you could only make it successful if you didn't actually derive much enjoyment from it. .......
That's interesting. I hadn't thought of it like that before.

It was a few years ago when I was doing it, but I remember feeling high on the adrenaline of the whole thing, which lasted for about 4 or 5 months. For me, I'd say it was as high as it was deep, in that it was as enjoyable as it was scary. I tried to treat it as work, and devoted about 2 or 3 hours a day (or night) to it. Maybe I started to enjoy it too much, or maybe if I'd been able to feel indifferent about it to a larger extent, I could have made more money. I'll probably never know, and I'm not planning to try it again.

Someone once used the phrase 'money fear' in relation to those high value questions of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. He said if it was a £500 question, people generally found it easy, but if it was £125,000 at stake, and even if they had a good idea of the answer, they struggled with their own confidence due to the amount of money involved (ie how much they stood to lose if they were wrong). Perhaps if you can distance yourself from it enough, and avoid forming an emotional attachment to the desired outcome, you stand a better chance of winning.
 
TheLeeds said:
Perhaps if you can distance yourself from it enough, and avoid forming an emotional attachment to the desired outcome, you stand a better chance of winning.

I forget which poker manual it's in (possibly Power Poker) but the author states that they were so successful because they treated each and every hand as the first of the night and ignored the pile of chips (or lack there of) in front of them. Avoiding 'going on tilt' was the key he believed to minimising losses when they occured, i.e. so you didn't chase your losses or just as bad become reckless after a series of wins.

As someone who has a great deal of trouble calculating pot odds in poker in my head I will only play a sub set of pocket card combinations, every thing else I'll chuck from the start. The other mindset I try to foster is even if you get (for example) a pair of aces from the get go, not to get too invested in them and be prepared to chuck if the cards that come out look like they'll leave you with just that pair.
 
A favourite gambling 'trick' is to start with a low stake and double it every time you lose, until such time as you win, and then rinse and repeat.

This is why they have a house limit, otherwise a gambler with infinite amounts of money (or infinite credit for the duration of the gambling) can always turn a profit in the end, at least so long as they're allowed to keep on repeating that process.

Like any system, I suppose it only really works if the other side isn't aware of it, which generally they will be.
 
A favourite gambling 'trick' is to start with a low stake and double it every time you lose, until such time as you win, and then rinse and repeat.
Thread revival.

Yes, that's the one. It's called the Martingale System.
 
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Yes, most of the time, you'll make small profits, but once in a small while, there will be a longish run of the same colour which will test your nerve - or, as you say, the house limits. Then there's the zero on the roulette wheel, which is just enough to tip the odds in the house's favour.
 
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