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- From: bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob)
- Newsgroups: rec.gambling
- Subject: Re: Turning $96 into $70,000
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 23:24:47 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.230841.15022@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
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- In article <1015@rc1.vub.ac.be> rdictus@vnet3.vub.ac.be (Roy Dictus) writes:
- >You would buy a Joker '88 certificate for around $32. On this certi-
- >ficate are seven names: the name of the person who sold you the certi-
- >ficate (on the seventh position), the name of the person who sold it
- >to him/her (on the sixth), and so on. You would pay, by bank, $32 to
- >the person on position 1 (his bank account number is printed there,
- >too). The third $32 goes to the German company who organizes and con-
- >trols the system. In return for your proof of payment to Person #1
- >and your $32, they will send you 3 certificates to sell on -- for $32
- >each. So your investment is returned as soon as you are able to sell
- >these three certificates. Your clients will in turn sell 3 each, their
- >clients will each sell 3, and so forth. In the end run, seven genera-
- >tions later, 3x3x3x3x3x3x3 = 2,187 people will pay you (since you're
- >#1 now) $32 each, for a total of $69,984.
-
- This is an old pyramid con. It is illegal and enforced pretty
- vigorously. If it's not too late, you'd better turn yourself in
- to the proper authorities and hope they let you off if you profess
- ignorance.
-
- Even if it were legal, it should only work on morons. Why would
- anyone ever want to buy one of these lists when they can always
- start one themselves? Just get the names and bank numbers of
- your friends and family and put them on a list. Make a few hundred
- copies of the list and sell as many of them to as many suckers as
- you can find.
- ==
-
- Bob Seattle, Washington
-
-