Subject: Re: Welcome New FCI Representative

From: Russell McCrackin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 01:39:38 -0700 (PDT)

At 02:21 AM 4/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Thank you for joining our team!  You can access your new web page at 
>http://www.cognigen.com/f/fci.cgi?jo5698329
>
>Please E-mail any suggestions about our web site to [email-masked]. 
>Remember, if you don't submit your new URL to other places on the 
>internet then no one will be able to access it!  Just look for any 
>place that says SUBMIT YOUR PAGE, or ADD YOUR PAGE then enter your URL 
>and any other information they require.  You can start out with 
>SUBMIT IT or WEBCRAWLER, the list is endless.  
>
>If you don't want to spend hours submitting your site to search engines
>yourself, we have arranged a 15% discount for you with AAA Internet 
>Promotions (there is a link from your FCI web page).  Just tell them
>you want the 15% cognigen discount, and they will deduct 15% from the
>cost of the service you choose.  This applies to any non-FCI web pages
>you might wish to promote as well!
>
>Don't neglect the non-internet world - the more people you introduce
>to FCI the better will be your chances of achieving the income goals
>you set for yourself.
>
>Again, thank you for joining our team and we wish you great success!!!  
>
>If you have any questions or problems just send E-mail to your sponsor 
>at [email-masked].  If you can't reach your sponsor then feel free to 
>E-mail me.  I will be unavailable from March 26 to April 3, so if you
>need help during that time period, you may email my upline, John Varnedore
>at [email-masked]
>
>If you have access to a Fax machine and would like more information on 
>how to get started immediately then call +1 703-455-0341 and ask for 
>document # 3698.  This fax back document contains the most commonly 
>asked questions and their answers, along with all of the information 
>you'll need to successfully build your own residual income fortune.

>I believe we offer the ONLY program of it's kind in the industry today, 
>although I'm sure there will be copycats soon.  My name is Kevin Anderson.
>If you explored my web site carefully, then you may have read my biography.
>The Internet marketing industry today is populated with tens of thousands 
>of self-styled "experts"; but there are few people dedicated to marketing 
>telecommunications products and services on the internet who have a 
>background to match my thirty years as a top computer scientist.  The 
>technological aids you will get from me to support your FCI marketing 
>efforts will be the very best money can buy - and it won't cost you 
>anything if you make a committment to join my marketing team.
>
>FCI offers good interstate long distance calling rates, and a multilevel 
>commission structure which is commensurate with the $0.129/minute rate.  
>This commission structure could be just the thing you need to propel you 
>to new levels of success in 1996!
>
>Please read every word of each of the linked FCI web pages, so you can
>help your downline people to build successful organizations for themselves.
>
>Remember that you are required to either sign up for FCI's discount long
>distance service, or to at least purchase monthly downline reports at the
>nominal cost of $20 for your first year.  If you are serious about making
>money with us, we will support you all the way to the top.  We signed up
>for a year of weekly reports for $80 and we are absolutely certain that is
>the most important $80 purchase we ever made!
>
>
This looks to me like an online version of the the "Phone Card" scheme.
I was approached by a local "Phone Carder" and sat through a presentation.
They offered LOTS of money for very little effort, because you just sold
ten people, and then when each of them sold, etc., you got an income from 
each of those you sold to, and from each of those that they sold to.  It
was supposed to be a "legal" modification of the old pyramid scheme.  

The person that approached me even admitted that it was a pyramid scheme, 
but legal because you got "something for your money," even if it was only 
worth less than 10 percent of what you paid.  Those at the top of the 
pyramid made lots of money, but when the base got too big, those that 
joined later got little or zip for their money.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think I'll sit on my wallet.

And what connection does this have with blacksmithing?

Get it hot and hit it hard.

Rusty

at Rusty Forge

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From: METTLEWK <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 17:33:43 -0400 (EDT)

Don't buy any Spam that's not in a can.

Gene