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A Postal-Mail Chain Letter?
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Posted By:
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
Nov 14, 2004
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I received this chain letter in my mailbox:
Dear Friend,
Greetings: I am a retired attorney. A few years ago a man came to me with a letter. He asked me to verify the fact that this was legal to do. I told him I would review it and get back to him. When I first red the letter my client brought me, I thought it was some "off-the-wall" idea to make money. A week and a half later we met in my office to discuss the issue. I told him the letter he originally brought me was not 100% legal. My client then asked me to later it to make it perfectly legal. I asked him to make one small change in the letter.
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It goes on for another 2 pages about how if you send $1 to the 6 names on the list & you will make $800,000.00 in just 3 months. You pay for a list of names to send letters to. I KNOW this is a scam. I just can't figure out how I got it. It came to me at my married name (junk-mail tends to come to my maiden name), & it came to my actual house address. (My driver's license lists my PO Box & if you look me up at the DMV, the physical address is actually my prior residence...haven't had time to change it yet.) The phone & electric aren't registered in my name, they're registered to my husband. (There's not a water bill, we have a well.)
What I wanna know is: How did this come to me, with my correct name at my current physical address??? The 'person' who sent the letter is: Mr. Louis Jordan/1234 Shakespeare Avenue/Apt # 2E/Bronx, NY 10452
Also, a co-worker recently had someone slip this same letter under his door at his apartment building...Anyone hear anything about this??
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karla
in Florida
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 | 02:36 PM
Ok. Enough said...almost.
The thing is I want to get rich without doing anything. Lately, the best way to check your mail is to see if you signed up for one of those "group" lawsuits. Yes...and we won.
Out of the blue I recieved a check for $600.
Wow..talk about express mail.
So, if you were ever on paxil..most on this website mostly were??
Surely, anyone interested in this topic would be on paxil..so there is a community lawsuit for damages. Join in..you may get a check for what it did for your brain. OUCH! I only took one pill..thought someone swapped my meds..lol.. |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 | 06:54 PM
Frederick said:
"CMG whats happened with this site, no more visitors or feed back on chain letters since July?"
It kind of comes and goes in spurts. I can only speak for myself but I tend to post only when I get notice that someone has added something new to the thread. |
James
in Tennessee
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Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 | 12:09 PM
Meegan;
Actually, Louis Jordan was a black blues singer in the 30's and 40's. and Shakespeare, well, you know who he was... "Romeo Romeo Where for art thou Romeo" And to thyn own self be true? Or was that Brother Dave Gardner? Anyway, Get a steady job(income) and Do your best, and all will work out fine "What ye shall sow,so shall ye reap? Did you know that almost all Super Markets have your address and Phone number, and where you work and What you had for breakfast this morning, well almost all of that. Every time you buy on E-bay and every time you buy from a mail order co., they get all you information, and could pass it along to all these other people, and most likely could get paid for doing so. The next time you visit a store and get to the cash register, and they say phone no.or zip code, or address please. Say sorry, I do not give out that information. Most stores, can tell you what you purchased there in the last few years and how much you spent. |
James
in Tennessee
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Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 | 12:30 PM
OK KARLA;
If you worked for minimum wage,$7.50, for 2 weeks(80 hrs.) You would have $600.00, and another two weeks another $600.00 and so on and on. Now you can find "easy" work or hard work. There is no such thing as "easy" work. Work is work and not to be confused with slacking, dodging, hiding, and trying to shift the load to someone else. If you received money through false pretense, "The Ill gotten gains will do you no good"
you know...By the sweat of the brow?
When something sounds too good to be true, it usually isn't.Regarless of how much faith you have. "A bum steer is a bum steer" James |
TherealJamesomusic
in Ky
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 | 04:27 PM
excuse me, but that is my twitter account, my email account, and I don't do chain-letters, so WTF. |
James
in Tennessee
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 | 09:52 AM
Well I didn't know that oops!. Now I have an email address and an ebay account going back several years. Someone somehow got into it the other day,and listed 183 I-phones and 20 pairs of shoes, at a cost of over $400.00 to me, and by the way, there were 3 I-phones that sold, at $600.00 each, and they paid me through my paypal account. So all of a sudden, I had about $1800.00 in my account, that I did not have anything to do with. Well the nice lady at ebay helped me to cancel all the transactions and return all the money, They even gave me $10.00 so my account would not be in the negative,(I think I had $2.00 in it at the time)
There you go "thereal" it can happen to anyone. at any address. The best thing (ebay told me)is to change your password often and make it difficult, with small and large case letters, punctuation, and numbers. Hope this helps. Sorry about my mistake. In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, or was it in 1493,Columbus sailed the deep blue sea.lol, Happy Columbus day. |
NowWhat
in New Mexico
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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 | 10:13 AM
I wondered if this letter was a scam. I waited a few days and then decided to send in the $33 to see what would happen. I still have no idea how it works. Guess I join the ranks of being out my $33.
So while we're on here learning about the scam and warning others, they are still out there raking in all this money.
I question why it's illegal just because it overwhelms the post office. Every business advertises by sending out fliers as do the candidates for the elections and Christmas packages. Why should trying to make a living by asking people to pay for something in order to make something be illegal? If not the post office what other system could one use (aside from Fed Ex and UPS) Times are tough and now I'm out $33 more. Great! I didn't do anything wrong but send in the money and get ripped off. Shrug! |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 | 02:48 PM
NowWhat said:
"I question why it's illegal just because it overwhelms the post office.
"Why should trying to make a living by asking people to pay for something in order to make something be illegal?"
Well, "overwhelming" the post office is one issue. There's also the fact that chain letters are a SCAM. As has been explained many times in this thread, they don't work because they CAN'T work mathematically. The postal service should not be used to promote an illegal scam.
Please take a look at more of this thread. You'll see many explanations of why chain letters CANNOT work. |
hopefully
in usa
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 | 01:14 AM
So, let's see...a person who stands to benefit from telling you that story wrote it and you BELIEVED it without question. I mean, there's no chance they'd just make that up to get you to give them your 200 bucks, right?
Here's my version: A person sends out maybe a thousand copies of that letter. Let's say 7.5% of them send him $200 each. When the dust settles, he has $15,000. Pretty good for a little work and spending a few bucks on stamps, huh?
Cranky guy. What are you getting at here. Who is sending who 200 dollars? The only money any one would be out in six bucks plus the cost of stamps and copys. |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 | 03:15 AM
hopefully said:
"Cranky guy. What are you getting at here. Who is sending who 200 dollars? The only money any one would be out in six bucks plus the cost of stamps and copys."
Hmm, actually I'm not sure what I was referring to with the $200 figure. I'm sure it made sense at the time. 
Anyway, the bottom line hasn't changed. Chain letters are illegal and don't work mathematically, no matter the amount you put in.
In this lousy economy, if they DID work, you'd expect to be hearing lots of stories about people who were in dire straits and got out of them by participating in a chain letter. Heard any stories like that yet? I haven't. |
country girl;
in arkansas
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Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 | 10:33 PM
I think your all bunch of idiots, geez.
read the letter. |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 | 03:42 AM
"I think your all bunch of idiots, geez.
read the letter."
Yes, we HAVE read the letter, Country Girl. What's your point? Oh, by the way, the word you wanted is "you're," not "your." If you're going to call other people idiots, it helps if you don't make stupid grammatical errors yourself.
You're welcome. |
jamesomusic
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Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 | 02:56 PM
Well here I am again. Now listen and listen close. I mailed out the 200 letters I sent the six bucks, and followed the plan to the "T". After being warned by everybody around me I still did it. Results ...spent over $200.00, received back $2.00 . It has been 3 months or longer. Now for my input...don't do it. You can do all the math you want, and write it any way you want, but in the end it did not work for me.And now I am convinced it does not work for anyone else. Take warning, somebody makes money...the Post Office (Legal)...the List people (legal),The six people you sent a buck to. Don't know if that is legal or not. Please do not check my spelling, I only finished the 7th grade,(didn't pass for the second time) was working nights to help support my family, lied about my age and joined the Marine Corps.To Fight for my country.My base Pay for a private in 1960 ,was about $80.00 a month. I sent an allotment home each month for $50.00. I was born poor, and have worked all my life, so I know what it is to be scammed. What really took me in, was the letter from the Educated Lawyer, Shame on him( the rat) Any "Jar heads" out there? Semper-Fi
PS...You know how to tell if it is a skunk or a lawyer that has been run over by a car? Give up? There will be skid marks before the skunk. |
Jamikay
in T.O. Calif
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 | 09:04 PM
It's amazing how we trust the government more than we trust our fellow man. It's a chance to help others and yourself at the same time. There is also a statement in the letter stating to save 20%, tithe 10%, bills 10%, taxes 30%, family and self 30%. Seriously is it really so bad out there that we can't help each other. We will put in the money for the government approved lotteries in the hopes of hitting the big one, what are the odds in that. Call it illegal but if it were the government putting this letter out there they would surely get their piece of it and we would be standing in lines to mail these letters. |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 | 03:27 AM
Jamikay said:
"It's amazing how we trust the government more than we trust our fellow man."
There's no reason to trust people who are running a mathematically-impossible scam.
"It's a chance to help others and yourself at the same time."
No it's not. If you had taken any time to read this thread, you would have seen exactly WHY chain letters aren't a "chance to help yourself and others." It's been explained in detail at least ten times. Do yourself a favor and take a few moments to read it. |
jamikay
in TOCalif
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 | 02:03 PM
Give me specific pages to read there are 87 and I am not going to sit and read them all. So you're telling me that there is no such thing as pay it forward? Woe to those that do use this to cheat other people but I'm sure that there are people who believe that this might work. If it does or doesn't the odds are the same as buying lottery. My Mom has played lottery since it began at $32 dollars a month and still no big win. I'm sure that the government got part of that money that she INVESTED in lottery, but...that's legal. So I would say that the odds are the same. Also if you recall lotteries were illegal until the government wanted a piece of the pie. |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 | 04:00 PM
"Give me specific pages to read there are 87 and I am not going to sit and read them all."
Hey, how about if I come to your house and read it to you? Is THAT convenient enough for you? We wouldn't want you to spend a few minutes of your precious time to become educated on this subject.
"So you're telling me that there is no such thing as pay it forward?"
No, what I'm telling you is that chain letters are illegal and DO NOT WORK. That has been explained many times in this thread but a busy person like you doesn't have the time to read that information.
"Woe to those that do use this to cheat other people but I'm sure that there are people who believe that this might work."
There are people who believe the Earth is flat but that doesn't make it true. Belief does not create FACT.
"If it does or doesn't the odds are the same as buying lottery."
Uh, no. Again, your belief does NOT make something true.
All the points you have tried to make have been made in this thread by other people and refuted. You'd know that if you took the time to read some of it but you're clearly MUCH too busy to take the time to learn why you're wrong. Good luck. |
hcmomof4
in So. Cal.
Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 | 05:07 PM
Buying lottery tickets is a VERY poor investment plan... |
Cranky Media Guy
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 | 05:40 AM
"Buying lottery tickets is a VERY poor investment plan..."
Yup, that's why the ads always say, "For entertainment purposes only." |
Jamikay
in TOCalif
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 | 02:34 PM
CMG you're right, there is no light at the end of the tunnel and life is truly a b---- and then you die. The fact is, is that you are born to live what ever life you want regardless of what other people may think and then you die. No chances, no thrill, no fantasy just facts. I feel sorry for you because you'll always explain the hope that people hang on to away. Did you tell your children that there was no Easter bunny, no Santa Claus, no birthdays, no holidays how sad for you. and yours. |
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