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haya guys just got this mail from some git i used to work for and surprise surprise its a get rich quick scheme! just wanted to know
a) is this leagle, and b) if not how do i grass on the bugger for spamming me with such crap (btw dont suggest you read the whole thing theres loads to get through just scroll through it and youll see why im so pissed off
""""

THIS IS THE CHEAPEST, FASTEST & EASIEST WAY TO MAKE
MONEY ONLINE - PERIOD!


How to Turn £3 into £10,000 in 30 Days with PayPal!


Half an hour of easy work is all that's needed - no
capital outlay, no postage stamps, no printing,
copying or waiting, and the concept is 100% legal.


I have enclosed the information below for you to read
(as it was sent to me). Just read the highlighted
paragraphs to understand how this works, print it off
and then find some time to read it. This is not a
scam and will only cost you £3 via PayPal and only 30
minutes of your time. It really does work!!!

If this is of no interest to you I apologise for
wasting your time. But please feel free to forward it
on to anyone you think that may be interested.

Please contact me with any questions you may have.


Do you want to find your pot of gold? Then please
read on.......


The only things you will need are:

* An email address

* Premier or Business PayPal account with at least
£3 deposited in it

* 30 minutes of your time

This program takes just half an hour to set up. After
that, there is absolutely no work whatsoever to do on
your part. And yet, you will stand to gain many
thousands of pounds within the next few weeks from
those 30 minutes of easy work! Yes, I know, it sounds
too good to be true! I thought exactly the same thing
myself until I actually tried it out!

Even if you are already involved in another program,
stay with it, but do yourself a big favour and DO THIS
ONE as well. You have absolutely NOTHING to lose, but
you stand to gain a LIFE-CHANGING amount of money
within the next few weeks! In fact, there is NO LIMIT
to the amount of income you can generate from this one
single business program!!

The facts are simple: If you need to make a few
thousand pounds REALLY FAST, then this program is the
way to do it! It's the CHEAPEST, FASTEST, EASIEST, and
MOST LUCRATIVE program you will ever participate in!

Please be sure to read all of this page . . . take
your time, come back to it . . . go over and over it,
you won't be sorry, I can certainly promise you that!
If you don't have time to read all of this now, then
save this page, or add it to your Favorites list, so
you can come back to it later.

ALL YOU NEED IS A PAYPAL ACCOUNT & AN EMAIL ADDRESS!

Just about everyone has heard about "PayPal" (if you
haven't you will soon!) and when I came across this
concept I knew it would work because, as a member of
PayPal, I had already experienced their efficiency and excellent
standing. PayPal is the simplest method of making and receiving
payments
online that anyone has ever seen! Anyone with an email address can join
for FREE! Once you have a PayPal account, you can send and receive
credit card payments to or from anyone - anywhere in the world! Please
read further before you go there... You can complete this whole process
within just half an hour and you will NEVER forget the day you decided
to do so!!!



Let's get started, just follow the instructions
exactly as set out below and then prepare yourself for
a HUGE influx of cash over the next 30 days!

HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. . .

STEP 1

Ok, if you're not already a PayPal user, the very
first thing you need to do is use the PayPal link
below and SIGN UP. It takes just two minutes.

Here's the URL:

https://www.paypal.com/uk/mrb/pal=KEVCT322D7HPU

Be sure to use this link so you can sign up for a free
PREMIER or BUSINESS account. You'll need to have a
PREMIER or BUSINESS account (and not a PERSONAL
account) otherwise you won't be able to receive credit
card payments from other people.

STEP 2

It is an undeniable law of the universe that we must
first give in order to receive. So the first thing to
do when you have your Premier/Business PayPal account
is to IMMEDIATELY send a £3 payment from your PayPal
account to the FIRST email address in the list below,
along with a note saying: "Please add me to your
mailing list." Be certain to add this note, as this is
what KEEPS THIS PROGRAM LEGAL. Instructions on how to
send a payment are under "SEND MONEY" at the Paypal
Site. It's so Easy!!

When you send your £3 payment to the first address in
the list, do it with a great big smile on your face
because "as you sow, so shall you reap!"

Here's the current list:

*No emails*

After you have transferred a £3 payment to the email
address at the top of the list, something very eerie
happens. It gives you an indescribable, overwhelming
sense of certainty, belief and conviction in the
system. You’ve just proved to yourself that, because
you have done it, there must be a great number of
other people ready to do exactly the same. Thus you
have now seen for yourself, first hand, that this
business actually works!

STEP 3

Once you've sent a £3 payment to the address at the
top of the list (along with your note - 'this is VERY important'), the
next thing you need to do is copy this email message, as you'll be
sending it out to at least 40 people. The copy that you will send out
will contain YOUR unique PayPal referral URL and YOUR email address at
number 5 in the list - having deleted the address at Number 1 in the
list, and moving the others up a position. The easiest way to do this
is
to:

(A) Go to your toolbar (at the very top of the screen)
and select EDIT and then SELECT ALL.

(B) Go to the toolbar again and select EDIT and then
COPY.

(C) Start (compose) a new email message (PLAIN TEXT so
everyone can view it!).

(D) Fill in your email address and subject line.

(E) Go to EDIT and PASTE to paste this text into your
new email message. Now you can edit this email message
in any way you want!

The first thing to edit are the email addresses in the
list above. Delete the top email address, and then
move the others up a position, and then add YOUR email
address to the bottom of the list (the number 5
position). Be sure to use your email address that is
associated with your PayPal account. But DO NOT forget
to send £3 via PayPal (along with your note!) to the
email address at position number 1 before deleting it!


Don't be tempted to add your name to position 1 in
order to earn money fast! It doesn't work like that!
If you do that, you will ONLY reach the people you
directly send emails to, and then your name will be
immediately removed from the No.1 place and you won't
reach thousands of people! But, if you add your name
to the Number 5 position, there will be literally
thousands of people receiving and sending email's
later - when your name is at the Number 1 spot!!!

Now you need to edit the PayPal referring URL (shown
above in Step 1) with your own PayPal referring URL.
You can find YOUR referring URL at Paypal after you
join. Just look at the bottom of the first page once
you sign into Paypal, and click on the "referrals"
link. You will be given a referring URL similar to the
one above, except the code number at the end will be
different. Simply delete the current PayPal referral
URL in Step 1 above, and replace it with your PayPal
referral URL.

(F) Once you've edited your email message as outlined
above, send out a minimum of 40 copies of this email -
but only to people you know, or to people who respond
to MLM offers, or to people who've sent YOU offers. By
sending this letter and the payment via EMAIL, the
response time is EXTREMELY fast.......... ELECTRONIC
TRANSFER INTERNET FAST!!! That's why it takes only a
few days for those £3 payments to start flooding into
your PayPal account!

THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT!

The whole process should take you about 30 minutes to
complete. BE PREPARED TO GET EXCITED.... YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!!!

Half an hour of easy work is all that's needed - no
capital outlay, no postage stamps, no printing,
copying or waiting, and the concept is 100% legal.

Within 30 days, over £10,000 cash will pass through
your PayPal account. And thats GUARANTEED. In fact,
you can expect to receive a substantial number of £3
payments within the first few days! Keep a copy of
your email safe so that you can use it again whenever
you need more cash!

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:

When you send out your emails, your email address will initially be at
Number 5 in the list. That's the best position it can be in at this
stage if you want to make serious money. The response-rate for this
program is much higher than any typical email marketing campaign for a
number of reasons, which are explained later. As long as you send your
emails to people who are likely to be interested in this program, on
average, you can expect a response from about 25% of the people you
send
to. But let's be extremely conservative here and assume that you
receive
an average response rate of only 12.5%. . .

If you send out your email to 40 different people, you
can expect at least 5 of those people to do exactly
what you did (12.5% of 40 = 5). By this time, your
email address will have moved up to No.4 in the list,
and this list will now have reached around 200 people
(5 x 40).

Out of those 200 people, you can expect at least 25 of
them to participate (12.5% of 200 = 25), so that's a
further 1,000 emails (25 x 40) being sent out and your
email address will have risen to No.3 in the list.

Out of those 1,000 people, you can expect at least 125
of them to participate (12.5% of 1,000 = 125), so
that's a further 5,000 emails (125 x 40) being sent
out with you now at the No.2 position.

Out of those 5,000 people, you can expect at least 625
of them to respond (12.5% of 5,000 = 625), so that's
25,000 emails (625 x 40) being sent out with YOUR
ADDRESS at the No.1 spot!

Now, out of those 25,000 people, you can expect around
3,125 of them to respond (12.5% of 25,000 = 3,125).
And since you will now be at NUMBER 1 in the list, you
will receive: £9,375 (3,125 x £3).

So, when your name starts to hit the Number 1 position
within the next few days, it will be YOUR turn to
collect the money! Over the course of 30 days, this
money will be sent to you by a few thousand people
just like yourself - who are willing to invest half an
hour to receive around £10,000 or more in cash! The
first payments will arrive within a few days, and they
will continue at the rate of about 100 payments per
day for about 30 days. After that time, the volume of
payments begins to taper off as your email address
vacates the Number 1 position.

That's all you need to do! There will be around
£10,000 in £3 payments waiting for you in your
PayPal account within the next few weeks. £10,000 for
just 30 minutes work! This is real money that you can
spend on anything you wish! Just deposit it to your
own bank account or spend it directly from your PayPal account!!! It's
just that easy!!! I think it's WORTH IT, don't you?

But there's more!!! For each person who signs up with
PayPal as a result of using YOUR unique referral URL,
you will automatically receive a referral bonus of up
to £75 from PayPal! So, you could very easily make an
extra few hundred pounds on top of the amount above!

Remember, the 12.5% example above is assuming that 35
out of the 40 people you send your email to will do
absolutely nothing except delete your email. However,
if you follow the plan correctly and send your emails
only to people who are likely to want to participate,
you can expect a typical response-rate of around 25%.
The 12.5% example is only given as a
worst-case-scenario. Additionally, the example assumes
that each participant will only send out 40 emails.
Imagine what would happen if each participant sent out
1,000 emails instead of just 40! Believe me, many
people will do this and much more!

Consider this! Millions of people surf the Internet
every single day, all over the world! Plus there are
50,000 new people who get on the Internet every month!
The people who send you offers by email can provide
you with an excellent source of bulk email addresses
to send to. You can also send out emails to all of
your family, friends, and to anyone who you think
would want to invest £3 and 30 minutes of their time
to make a substantial lump sum within a month. If you
want to operate this business continuously, you should
consider obtaining bulk lists of email addresses from
a reputable mailing list company. That's how I've
managed to stay in business for the last 2 years. If
you already have a legitimate mailing list, then this
would be the most profitable way to make use of it.
There are many websites that sell thousands of fresh
opt-in email addresses of people who have subscribed
to receive exactly this type of program. For example,
check out the following two sites...the possibilities
are endless, and it's so easy!



Unlike many other MLM programs, this 5-LEVEL PROGRAM
costs you only £3. That's right, only £3 ONCE, which
is much more realistic and provides much, much faster
results. Only the first person on the list gets your
£3 gift, but everyone in the list will rise to that
Number 1 position as thousands of emails are being
sent out. No cheating can occur (don't be fooled by
claims that this system can be cheated) as Paypal only
allows one account per person. Because it is so easy,
the response rate is VERY HIGH and VERY FAST -
Internet email FAST, and you will start seeing
dramatic results in less than one week! JUST IN TIME
FOR NEXT MONTHS BILLS!

You need only mail out 40 copies to start with. Start
right away, and send to personal contacts and reply to
people who send their programs to you, as they are
already working on the web. They know these programs
work and they are already believers in the system!
This is NOT considered SPAM if you are responding to
other people's offers, or sending to friends, family
and contacts, or if you are using a legitimate opt-in
list.

So, email your letters out today, and then prepare
yourself for a huge influx of cash within the next 30
days!!!

Because of the VIRTUALLY ZERO INVESTMENT, SPEED, and
HIGH PROFIT POTENTIAL, this program has a VERY HIGH
RESPONSE RATE! And all from just a simple email and
one simple £3 PayPal transaction! In fact, this
program has faster results, and a higher response
rate, than any other Internet program you could
possibly participate in! For most email marketing
campaigns, the average response rate is between 0.5%
and 5%. However, this particular program typically
generates a response rate of between 20% and 30%. This
is because this program is so easy to implement, it
costs next to nothing, it takes just 30 minutes to
implement, and the results can be seen within days.

I've been watching this type of MLM program for years
and this is about as easy and fast as you can get it.
No stamps, no envelopes, no printed copies to be made
- just a little effort and faith!!! This program
really keeps it "short and simple"!

Believe me, you will be rewarded long before those
thousands of people even begin to receive emails with
your email address at the Number 1 position! This is
because PayPal will automatically pay you up to £75
for each referral. Yes, every time someone signs up
with PayPal after reading one of your emails, you will
receive up to £75 from PayPal!

UNLIMITED INCOME POTENTIAL!

This program is structured for everyone to send only
40 emails each to start. However, you are certainly
not limited to 40. Send out as many emails as you
want. Every 40 emails you send has a return of AT
LEAST £10,000 WITHIN 30 DAYS. So, if you can email
50, or 100, or whatever, GO FOR IT! THE MORE YOU PUT
INTO IT, THE MORE YOU GET OUT OF IT!

However, you MUST remember that sneaking your name
higher up on the list will NOT produce the results you
think, and it only cheats the other people who have
put in the effort and have earned the right to be
there. So please, play by the rules and the serious
money will come to you!

You are probably skeptical of this, especially with
all the different programs out there on the Web, but
if you don't try this you will never know. I felt
exactly the same as you probably do right now. I
wanted to believe but I just couldn't help thinking
that there was some sort of catch. But then I realized
that I had absolutely nothing to lose. After all, I
was only being asked to invest a measly £3, and yet I
could earn many thousands of pounds within a month.
And all for just half an hour of my time! Therefore I
went ahead and did exactly as the email requested.
This took me around 30 minutes in total, and I'm so,
so, glad I did that!

To get started, just use the URL link in Step 1 above
to sign up for a free PayPal Premier (or Business)
account.

But please play by the rules! This program doesn't
cost anything but £3 and about half an hour of your
time, and if everyone plays fair, everyone WINS!!

So there it is. You now have the knowledge that will
enable you to make over £10,000 within the next few
weeks. The only thing that can hold you back now is a
lack of faith or a lack of self-belief. However, any
doubts you may currently have will disappear within a
few days of putting this plan into practice. Trust me
on this! You certainly won't regret it.

Good luck....any questions feel free to ask..THIS DOES WORK


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see what i mean ffs :(
 

yaruar

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Pyramid schemes like this are illegal in a lot of places (and even bancrupt the economy of some countries such as albania...) they are to be avoided at all costs, the only people who get rich are the ones who start them. Trust me, they are not to be gotten into.
 

Morchaoron

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When you send your £3 payment to the first address in
the list, do it with a great big smile on your face
because "as you sow, so shall you reap!"

Here's the current list:

.........................
...................
.......................

After you have transferred a £3 payment to the email
address at the top of the list, something very eerie
happens. It gives you an indescribable, overwhelming
sense of certainty, belief and conviction in the
system. You’ve just proved to yourself that, because
you have done it, there must be a great number of
other people ready to do exactly the same. Thus you
have now seen for yourself, first hand, that this
business actually works!

somehow this sounds so fake, like they are trying to pound confidence in your head....

some cheapo is just trying to make quick money (and only ONE cheapo)
 

Job

The Carl Pilkington of Freddyshouse
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Amusing innit.

You know when the Lottery first appeared in the UK, people were selling AND BUYING!!!!! I might add, books on how to win it.

Hmmmmm..

Surely it was just one page

to increase your chances of winning the Lottery...BUY MORE TICKETS!!

To give you an idea of how unlikely your numbers are to come up, it would not decrease you chances one bit to pick last weeks winning numbers.
 

SilverHood

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pyramid scam..... if you start one yourself, it might be getting you some money. Otherwise, it doesn't really work, since all the money gets funnled to the top:
/\
/\/\
/\/\/\


Usually it's greedy people who sign up.
If I had 3 quid, and lots of spare time, I might just sign up just to see what actually happens, and if it does work.
 

Asha

Fledgling Freddie
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this is dating myself but I used to get chain letters like this before email was invented

it never worked either!
 

tris-

Failed Geordie and Parmothief
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heres a scheme for you - send me a tenner and i will give you nothing.

least you know where its goin, tell your friends!
 

Binky the Bomb

Fledgling Freddie
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You can send it to the "Pay Pal" support mail, and register your complaint, then it's upto them to sort it out.
 

Archeon

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SilverHood said:
If I had 3 quid

If I had £3 i'd probably use it to buy sweets. And why not? Sweets are a great investment, you can put them in your car... on your desk... in your pocket. You can give sweets out and get gratitude and thanks in return, its one thing to have money but its another to have sombody in your sweety debt. Also if you keep people in your debt they'll get fat! Do you have any idea what that'll do for your self esteem? You'll be able to walk around and look at fat people and say "I'm not fat!" Just how great is that!?

Fuck 'Get Rich Quick' stuff, buy sweets ;)
 

SilverHood

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Archeon said:
If I had £3 i'd probably use it to buy sweets. And why not? Sweets are a great investment, you can put them in your car... on your desk... in your pocket. You can give sweets out and get gratitude and thanks in return, its one thing to have money but its another to have sombody in your sweety debt. Also if you keep people in your debt they'll get fat! Do you have any idea what that'll do for your self esteem? You'll be able to walk around and look at fat people and say "I'm not fat!" Just how great is that!?

Fuck 'Get Rich Quick' stuff, buy sweets ;)

But I'd need 3 quid to buy sweets too,
So it's all hypothetical.
 

behatch

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Archeon said:
If I had £3 i'd probably use it to buy sweets. And why not? Sweets are a great investment, you can put them in your car... on your desk... in your pocket. You can give sweets out and get gratitude and thanks in return, its one thing to have money but its another to have sombody in your sweety debt. Also if you keep people in your debt they'll get fat! Do you have any idea what that'll do for your self esteem? You'll be able to walk around and look at fat people and say "I'm not fat!" Just how great is that!?

Fuck 'Get Rich Quick' stuff, buy sweets ;)

I often but sweets and offer them to kids from my car :sex:
 
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behatch said:
I often but sweets and offer them to kids from my car :sex:

what make me laff is why no-one adds their name to the TOP of the list and fucks over the starter...seeing as your now TOP of the list youll rake it in from nobheads who believe this shit... still anyone who starts this kinda thing is dumb anyway.. seeing as most are using their ISP emails expect a quick trip to the jailhouse buddies.
 

Driwen

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Elewyth(TLSOA) said:
what make me laff is why no-one adds their name to the TOP of the list and fucks over the starter...seeing as your now TOP of the list youll rake it in from nobheads who believe this shit... still anyone who starts this kinda thing is dumb anyway.. seeing as most are using their ISP emails expect a quick trip to the jailhouse buddies.

dont think participating in a pyramid scheme is illegal though, setting one up is in certain countries though. But as they cant prove who set it up (and most likely those people can prove they didnt), no one would get arrested.
 

Iceforge

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I would like, send it on to other people, with edited list, but NOT send money to the first one on the list? Or would that be illegal? :p
 

Ctuchik

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haya guys just got this mail from some git i used to work for and surprise surprise its a get rich quick scheme! just wanted to know
a) is this leagle, and b) if not how do i grass on the bugger for spamming me with such crap (btw dont suggest you read the whole thing theres loads to get through just scroll through it and youll see why im so pissed off

sue him :) that IS a way better way to get fast cash then this crap :) AND its even LEGAL! :D

should teach your ex coworker to stay the fuck away from that shit to :)
 

Lamp

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You surely can't be mug enough to believe that load of bollocks can you ??!

All these get rich fast schemes. Why are they telling YOU about it ? Why do people write books telling you the secrets of how to win the lottery ?
 

Lamp

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This is the bit that made me laugh:
"Out of those 5,000 people, you can expect at least 625
of them to respond"

Oh really ? Fuck off !
 

Lollie

Loyal Freddie
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so... 3 years later.. did you make a shit load of cash or report him? :)
 

Ingafgrinn Macabre

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One word necro like this should be slappable :eek:
It is....

[url=https://forums.freddyshouse.com/misc.php?do=cfrules]Freddy's CoC[/url] said:
Spam.
Hard to define, but bloody annoying nonetheless. Spamming disrupts the boards and makes it difficult for people to follow the thread topic. Determining if a user has been spamming is very subjective which means that it is difficult to moderate, but not impossible. A fast moving thread with the discussion being a meaningful and relevant one is fine. A humorous thread with valid input from each poster passing back and forth rapidly is also good to read and fun to have. What we define as spam is meaningless posting, lack of content to people's comments or silly 1 line responses. Of course, you will on occasion wish to post a simple 'well done' or 'gratz' or 'sign me up' and that's fine. What we look for is people who post several times a day with all similar 1 liners or emote posts offering no meaningful content.

If you are thought to be spamming you will receive a PM warning from a mod first. This is not an opening of a discussion to define what is or isn't spam, it is a warning. If you get to this point then your posting behaviour needs to change. If your warning does not bring about a change in posting behaviour you will receive a 3 day ban as a final warning. If this does not have the desired effect you will be banned permanently. No ifs, no buts, a permanent ban.
Bumping threads.

The only reason for bumping an old thread would be to continue that discussion rather than starting a new thread about the same subject. Any threads bumped without constructive input will be treated in the same was as Spam (see above).
 

leviathane

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qq i read tht and only realised it was old after half way through thread :/
 
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