Subject: Re: CHRISTMAS

From: "Travis Prebble" <[email-masked]>
Date: 6 Dec 1996 07:17:44 GMT

[email-masked] wrote in article <[email-masked]>...
> TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE A HEART OUT THERE.  WE ARE A STRUGGLING FAMILY
TRYING TO 
> MAKE ENDS MEET.  WE WOULD LIKE OUR CHILDREN TO HAVE A GOOD CHRISTMAS THIS

> YEAR.  WE ARE NOT ON STATE-AID OR ANY KIND OF ASSISTANCE. WE WOULD JUST
LIKE 
> TO KNOW IF THERE IS ANYONE OUT THERE THAT COULD AFFORD TO SEND US SOME
EXTRA 
> MONEY TO HELP US OUT.  IF YOU COULD, IT WOULD BE GREATLY NEEDED AND 
> APPRECIATED.

You know, you could save a few bucks if you cancelled your Internet access.

Oh, and, um... if any of you out there don't have a heart, say hi to Elvis
for me.

Come and read a little message from a man named Jed,
A poor net geek barely kept his family fed.
Then out one day he was huntin' for some cash,
When up from the screen came a GPF crash.

(Fault that is, general protection, invalid opcode, 'puter bug)

Now old Jed, well he likes that net spam,
Trying to fool nice folks with his Holiday scam.
"Help us make this holiday golden...
By sending us the cash that you're currently holdin'."

Happy holidays everyone!!  Especially you, Jed!

-- Trav

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From: Rick <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 03:17:38 -0600

[email-masked] wrote:
> 
> TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE A HEART OUT THERE.  WE ARE A STRUGGLING FAMILY TRYING TO
> YEAR.  WE ARE NOT ON STATE-AID OR ANY KIND OF ASSISTANCE. WE WOULD JUST LIKE
> TO KNOW IF THERE IS ANYONE OUT THERE THAT COULD AFFORD TO SEND US SOME EXTRA
> THANK YOU
> MRS. PARKISON
> 3105 S. 68TH CRT
> OMAHA, NE.  68106

Seems like you have enough money though for internet access and a
computer to access these groups....sell it and you will have some
money!!

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From: Rick <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 03:19:43 -0600

> computer to access these groups....sell it and you will have some

I did not mean to be rude, but when I needed money for my kid, I sold my
computer and stuff to make the ends meet and now I use the one at work..
Sorry if anyone took it the wrong way, but I HATE when people BEG FOR
MONEY!!  GET A JOB OR A SECOND JOB!!!

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From: [email-masked](Bruce Gonzalez)
Date: 6 Dec 1996 13:42:56 GMT

TRYING TO 
EXTRA 
>MONEY TO HELP US OUT.  IF YOU COULD, IT WOULD BE GREATLY NEEDED AND 

Hark, do I smell a RIPOFF!

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From: [email-masked] (Sal )
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 14:42:19 GMT

>MONEY!!  GET A JOB OR A SECOND JOB!!!

It has nothing to do with a job.  Don't you recognize a hustle when
you see one??  Why are you personally offended?

This is just some scumbag hoping to take in a few innocent netizens
for a few extra dollars.

It's called a scam! <g>.  If you don't recognize it here, you must
be in real trouble.

Sal

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From: [email-masked] (Sal )
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 14:42:59 GMT

<snip>
>Hark, do I smell a RIPOFF!

No shit, sherlock!

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From: [email-masked] (Jostein Welde)
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 20:56:51 +0100

> > MONEY TO HELP US OUT.  IF YOU COULD, IT WOULD BE GREATLY NEEDED AND 

 WOW! I guess some people are just too STUPID to understand that this here
is what we call FRAUD...

> You know, you could save a few bucks if you cancelled your Internet access.
Ditto.

> Oh, and, um... if any of you out there don't have a heart, say hi to Elvis
Please say hello to God, too!!

Heming

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From: Chris Snyder <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 15:41:22 -0500

start by selling your computer...

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From: [email-masked] (GSims)
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 23:03:50 GMT

I live around Omaha and there isn't a Parkison at that address.  Some
some dope scamming around...

[email-masked](Bruce Gonzalez) wrote something to the extent

>Hark, do I smell a RIPOFF!

Garrett
"In God We Trust", to phrase a coin...

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From: Christopher <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 15:18:59 -0800

> MONEY TO HELP US OUT.  IF YOU COULD, IT WOULD BE GREATLY NEEDED AND

OMIGOSH!!!!!  Panhandling has found its way on the 'Net!  What's next:
"Will flame for food"?!?  Now I've seen EVERYTHING!!!!!

-- 
ÐÏà¡±á

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From: Buddy Hackit <"Bhackit"@cracker.net(fake)>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 21:26:21 -0600

your in a porn group, lets see your ass and I might, fuck it that is,
not send money

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From: [email-masked] (Cornholio)
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 07:18:04 GMT

>MONEY TO HELP US OUT.  IF YOU COULD, IT WOULD BE GREATLY NEEDED AND 

What the fuck?
thats all I can say

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From: "Joey Gray" <[email-masked]>
Date: 7 Dec 96 06:32:27 GMT

this is either a scam or someone with no pride or mental power.
If this is not a scam. Go down to the Salvation Army. They will help you
have a better christmas, if this is a scam then FUCKOFF that aint no shit
to be scammin people about.
MNiC
Cornholio <[email-masked]> wrote in article <32b119e4.54219490@News>...
TRYING TO 
LIKE 
EXTRA

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From: [email-masked] (Ring Zero)
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 14:41:47 GMT

>When up from the screen came a GPF crash.

	This was great!  Thanks for the humour!

	Ring Zero

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From: Dale or June Wingert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 09:19:32 -0600

> It's called a scam! <g>.  If you don't recognize it here, you must
this is fucking unbelievable!!!!!Get REAL you moron and get off the
newsgroup. Get a job and get rid of your computer.

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From: CCJ <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 20:46:39 -0800

> MONEY TO HELP US OUT.  IF YOU COULD, IT WOULD BE GREATLY NEEDED AND

I have a heart, thank you. I also have a brain. I suggest you use yours 
for something less sleasy.

P.S. I'll be glad to send you some money and even get my friends to 
send some but I need money for stamps. Please send $500 so I can help 
you a lot. :-)

CCJ

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From: CCJ <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 16:42:46 -0800

> MONEY TO HELP US OUT.  IF YOU COULD, IT WOULD BE GREATLY NEEDED AND

I have a heart. I also have a brain. That is why I am not sending you any 
money.....On second thought, I have many friends and relatives. If YOU 
will send ME $500 (needed for postage and phone calls) .........

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From: "Benjamin P. Rogers" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 12:24:38 GMT

Rick <[email-masked]> wrote in article
<[email-masked]>...
TRYING TO
LIKE
EXTRA
> computer to access these groups....sell it and you will have some

I'll second that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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From: Lukashenko Vladimir <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 23:51:27 +0300

It is very bad! I think you'll find exit from situation. But you must 
have a honor mr.
Marry Christmass

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From: [email-masked] (Ernest Spenard)
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 00:24:06 GMT

On 6 Dec 1996 13:42:56 GMT, [email-masked](Bruce Gonzalez)

>Hark, do I smell a RIPOFF!

Something like this doesn't deserve a comment.

no comment

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From: Lovena Harwood <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 16:41:34 -0500

> MONEY TO HELP US OUT.  IF YOU COULD, IT WOULD BE GREATLY NEEDED AND

*S* Who do I make the check out to? .......NOT!
-- 
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*  "Quit your whining and just jump!"          *
*  Lovena on skydiving....iceskating....life!  *
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From: Peter Likidis <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 12:00:05 +1100

> Something like this doesn't deserve a comment.

     As if!!! If you're so por how can you not only afford internet
connection but also the high level computer equipment to connect?

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From: Dale or June Wingert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 22:58:08 -0600

> Something like this doesn't deserve a comment.
really sad that the only post to schistosoma is a plea for money.
  June

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From: Giselle Tan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 16:55:47 +0000

> >>YEAR. 

Ah spoken like a true liberal...play on their emotions to get what you 
want.  Well in the same liberal vein, Christmas isnt about getting 
gifts, its about celebrating Jesus' birth.  Ya dont need no gifts just 
let the love flow man.

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From: Gary <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 21:40:17 -0800

> Something like this doesn't deserve a comment.

the cost of food no... internet access yes... hmmmm

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From: "mattam" <[email-masked]>
Date: 9 Dec 1996 18:51:02 GMT

The guy may be a scammer (and a spammer, for that matter) but you must
admit, he started a good thread here. I want so bad to write in and tell
everybody that they're just a bunch of scrooges, but I'm sure my sarcasm
will go over the head of anyone who replies. The only people who will catch
my sarcasm would be the ones who don't respond to it.

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From: James Petillo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 04:42:51 -0500

Reverend J Rauch wrote and Mercury Snipped. Here's what's left:
> 
> Please Read, DO NOT PUT IN TRASH,  NOT A SCAM!!!!
> Everybody helps each other, nobody loses!!!

And come the year 2000 we'll be living in a Utopia, the lion will lay
down with the lamb, and inter-dimensional travel will be commonplace.

> Hello, my Friend!

I think not.

<SNIP SNIP>

> Would someone scam you for 1 dollar?

I've seen crack addicts scam people for 10 cents, and sell their own
mothers for 20.

<SNIP SNIP>

> CHA CHING!!!
> all I did was send five bucks!!!!

Would that be the sound of the handcuffs being slapped on your wrist,
and what you screamed at the judge before he tossed your sorry ass in
Jail for breaking the law?
 
> I tried to get easy money before by lottery and I was spending more than
> 10 dollars a week for sure. Now I'm paying for a trip to Jamacia,
> without my parents' help. The best thing about this is that you don't
> have to do anything just send five envelopes, post in newsgroups and
> wait for cash to come.

Or the Police

> Fool proof technique:

Not really... just proof that a fool and his money are soon parted.

<SNIP SNIP> 

> "List"

Translation: Group of people looking to buy shares in the Brooklyn
Bridge.

--
James "I do not like Spam, Sam I am" Petillo

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From: wcrupe <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:12:35 -0500

> > >Hark, do I smell a RIPOFF!

This "jed" character had posted similar items regarding sending money to
the poor unfortunate person that raised him.

What a dick.

Gee, since I have the flu I think I'll cough big time on a Christmas
card and send it to them.

All in the spirit of giving, you see.

bill

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From: crystal littleton <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:13:05 -0500

Reverend J Rauch wrote:
> I offer You to spend $5, and receive as much as $53,000 in four -- five
> weeks.Many will think that its a scam. I thought so too, even though I
> never saw a single posting, which said that it's a scam.
> I'll tell you how I changed my life:
> One Sunday I was reading Newsgroups and saw posting  about making
> thousands in few weeks for 5 bucks. I decided that I could send these $5
> or buy something like Whooper, fries and coke in Burger king. I mailed 5
> envelopes with $1 in each.I needed some extra cash for a trip, I put
> many posts, but I
> did it only for 3 days.
> After about a week I started to receive envelopes, each with a dollar in
> it.
> After 3 weeks I had over 750 dollars.
> in a month I had enough for the trip and then some... 12,000$$$$$$!!!!
> CHA CHING!!!
> Step 1:
> Get 5 stamped (below you'll see the adresses) envelopes and put $1 in
> each also put a piece of paper saying : Please put me on your mailing
> list. Now the people whom you send dollar will work with you and for
> you. Mail these envelopes.
> Step 2:
> Remove  1st name from the "list" and name 2nd name as first 3rd as 2nd
> 4th as 3rd 5th as 4th and 5th name will b yours Name and mailing adress.
> Post in at least 250 newsgroups. Its very easy, since it takes only few
> minutes,One posting but at once to many newsgroups. More Posting you'll
> make more cash you will receive, trust me. Internet is huge, people from
> all over the world will see your postings.
> 
> "List"
> 
> James Rauch
> UCF PO box 164526
> Orlando Fl  32816
> 
> Daniele Cleary.
> 801 old white horse pike
> waterford,  nj 08089
> 
> Samuel R.
> 750 N Dearborne
> Chicago Il  60610
> 
> Susan Stumm
> 1301 Hawthorn CT
> Sewell, NJ 08080
> 
> Ruben Febres
> Univ. of Central Florida
> Po Box 164782
> Orlando, Fl 32816     As my mama says, gosh! the nerve of some people.

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From: Henry Charles Gehringer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 19:01:03 -0500

On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, crystal littleton wrote:

> As my mama says, gosh! the nerve of some people.

Yeah, and can you BELIVE those people who waste bandwidth by quoting an 
ENTIRE spam posting and add a one line reply?

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"You know, they say that money can't buy happiness.  Well, give me fifty
dollars and watch me smile." -- Bobby "The Brain" Heenan

[email-masked]

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From: "Greg T. LaLiberte" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:37:24 -0500

Anyone who uses personal e-mail addresses to advertise fly-by-night
schemes should be tracked down and whomever live in their area should
drive past their home with a bullhorn identifying them (to their neighbors
as swindling ponzis).  I hope we never meet.!! 
Are you an AMWAY Revrund Rauch ?

Greg Thomas La-Liberte'
810 229 - 1721  / E-Mail [email-masked]
http://pub1.tln.lib.mi.us/~greg/shadow.htm
The SHADOW NEWS-letter-zine
981 OakRidge Circle
Brighton(rock), MI 48116

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From: "John Lammers" <[email-masked]>
Date: 11 Dec 1996 05:12:30 GMT

> > >>TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE A HEART OUT THERE. 
have you ever thought of the fact that he may not have to pay for access ie
work 
now I presonally think it is scam as well.  I remember smothing simular
about 5 years ago I think it was on fidonet

Have a heart but keep your wallet in your pocket and help those you can
see.  Not with money but with hard work compassion and passion.  That is
one of the foundation which we should encourage.  Remember a handout is not
a helping hand.

John Lammers
<[email-masked]>

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From: Paul David Fox <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:41:21 +0000

> Hark, do I smell a RIPOFF!

How can you be so heartless? :-) Here Mrs. Nowhere.com, I am so
incredibly stupid I would like you to have the contents of my wallet.
Here ... take the food from outta my mouth...

I am weeping buckets for you .... :-)

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From: "Dean A. Yoder" <[email-masked]>
Date: 11 Dec 1996 13:25:04 GMT

Dean Yoder
[email-masked]

TRYING TO
LIKE
EXTRA
> > MONEY TO HELP US OUT.  IF YOU COULD, IT WOULD BE GREATLY NEEDED AND

Try selling your computer!  You may get enough for next christmas as well!

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From: Allain Henry <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 17:51:58 -0800

Paul David Fox wrote:
> **sell your computer, stop spending money on the net, you should spend a 
pretty good xmax

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From: "Wild Bill " <[email-masked]>
Date: 13 Dec 1996 00:08:50 GMT

Get the hell off this group and go back to pan handling or whatever the
hell you do.

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From: [email-masked] (termite)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 22:46:29 -0500

merry?

                     Home Inspection Fulfillment Center
                           INTERNET CONSULTANTS
                              http://www.jtr.com/termite

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From: Phil <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 22:18:06 -0800

> my sarcasm would be the ones who don't respond to it.

The whole thing reeks of rip-off, but stranger things have happened. Who
knows, maybe the guy met a guy who let him post the plea.  Then again,
since I can't meet him and verify his/their situation my money stays in
my pocket.  I like to keep a little hope that not everyone asking for
help is a thieving bastard preying on good hearts.