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PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:05 am    Post subject: money making - PAYPAL SCAM SPAM EXAMPLE Reply with quote
PAYPAL SCAM SPAM EXAMPLE

This is typical of the the paypal email scam that gets spammed to moneyforums, we tend to delete these as soon as we become aware of their existance (within an hour of postin), but have left this one as an example , offcourse removing the email addresses .

EARN THOUSANDS WITH PAYPAL (WHILE U SLEEP ALSO) !!!


Make your $6 earn $1000s in just a month with Paypal


Dear Friend,

Please don’t read this message if you are not bothered about HAVING WONDERFUL LIFE AND ARE CONTENT WITH WHAT YOU ARE EARNING.

This is not a scam, I have done it myself! Can you really make money so easily?

I thought it was impossible. Just read this. I don't even have to convince you that this is not a scam, because it makes logical sense how you can earn money through paypal.

A little while back, I was browsing through a newsgroup, just like you are now and came across an article similar to this, that said you could make thousands 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…

OPRAH WINFREY and an article published in the Wall Street Journal, here is some of it!!

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 anyone has ever seen! Anyone with an email address can join, for FREE! Please read further before you go there...

You can complete this whole process in less than one hour and you will never forget the day…..

You decided to do so!!! Oh! Did I say FAST? By fast I mean 'the speed of the Internet-type fast.' Everything is done on the Internet by E-mail. And, if you abide by the rules, it is NOT considered SPAM, so it's perfectly legal!.

PAYPAL VERIFIES THAT THIS $6 INVESTMENT IS 100% LEGAL AND IS A BIG HIT THIS YEAR SEE THEIR NOTE BELOW OR ASK THEM DIRECTLY...

Message from PayPal:

"Dear Member, it has come to our attention that there is a paypal scheme floating around at the moment you may have heard or seen the $6 scheme. You may have even taken part in it well we have been asked a lot of questions about this scheme the answer is yes it does work and yes it is safe to use providing you follow the rules it is legal and has made a big hit on the internet this year. Thank you for using Pay Pal."


Anyway, it said that you send $1.00 through paypal to each of the emails stated in the article. You then place your own email address in the bottom of the list at No.6, and post the article in at least 200 Newsgroups. (There are thousands) No catch, that was it. So after thinking it over, and talking to few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured, what have I got to lose except $6.00, right? Like most of us I was a little skeptical and a little worried about the legal aspects of it. I found out that it follows the same regulations as the mailed chain letters, which according to the U.S. is indeed legal!.... In most of the countries its accepted. Then I invested the measly $6.00. Well GUESS WHAT!!?. Within 7 days, I started getting money in my PayPal account! I was shocked and excited! I figured it would end soon, but the money just kept coming in. In my first week, I made about $30.00. By the end second week I had made a total over $1,100.00! In the third week I had over $8,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over $36,000.00 and it's still coming in rapidly. Its: certainly worth $6.00., I have spent more than that on the lottery!! 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.

REQUIREMENTS:

You must have a verified PayPal account. If you do not have an account you can go to https://www.paypal.com (notice the secure "https" within the link) and follow the instructions to set up a free account. Be sure to sign up for a free PREMIER or BUSINESS account (and not just a PERSONAL account) otherwise you won't be able to receive credit card payments from other people. In order to place the initial $6 into your account, you will have to verify your bank account with PayPal (which may take a few days). Paypal is 100% secure and is used my millions of people world wide.

STEP 1:

Sending PayPal money: "It is an undeniable law of the universe that we must first give in order to receive." Send, through PayPal, $1.00 to each email on the below list. Make the subject of the payment "Email List" and in the comments, write "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR EMAIL LIST." (This keeps the program 100% legal…so please don't forget!). What you are doing is creating a service by this and best of all you are not giving your address to anyone you do not know. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL!
The email list:

1) wXXrXXXXr@yaxhoo.cxox.inx
x
2) gXXXXX@yahxoo.cxomx

3) aXXXXX@yahxoo.cxo.inx

4) kalXXXXX@yxahoo.cxo.inx

5) XXXXX@yahxoo.cxomx

6) jXXXXXX@xyxahoo.coxm

STEP 2:

Now take the 1st email off the list that you see above, move the other addresses up (6 becomes 5) and add YOUR email address (the one used on the paypal account) as number 6 on the list. MAKE SURE THE EMAIL YOU SUPPLY IS EXACTLY AS IT APPEARS IN YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT.

STEP 3:

Try to keep this article as close to original as possible. Now, post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups and message boards. (I think there are close to 32,000 groups) All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the more money you make - as well as everyone else on the list!



---- DIRECTIONS----


HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS, MESSAGE BOARD:

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 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 sittings, 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, altavista.com,excite.com then you search with this subject millionaire message board? or money making message board? or employment message board? Or money making discussions? or money making forum? or business message board? etc. You will find thousand & thousand message board. Click one by one then you will find the option post a new message. (Some may need registration to post the message, so just register only in FREE FORUMS. If they ask to pay you, don’t sign up, SIMPLE.)

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. REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS AND/OR MESSAGE BOARDS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL MAKE!! That's it! You will begin receiving money within days! JUST MAKE SURE THE EMAIL YOU SUPPLY IS EXACTLY AS IT APPEARS ON PAYPAL.
You're done with your first one.

Please Be Honest and it will truly work for you.. Congrats!
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
My email box has one of these crap emails virtually every day !

Weren tthe EU suppose to pass a law making them illegal ?
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