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Posted at March 15, 2006, 11:53 pm:

I just got this email a few minutes ago. This has got to be the weirdest and most ridiculous PayPal scam I've seen yet. I cannot see how on earth this can possibly not be a scam of some kind.

This person claims to have wrote me the other day, claims to have been a recent contact with PayPal through Ebay... No, they have never contacted me before. I've never heard of this individual and have no record whatsoever of any transactions with this person. This is just the craziest thing I've ever seen. And to add to the weirdness of it all, I noticed it was sent to about 50 different email addresses, all beginning with the same letter as mine. It's just gotta be a scam. I have never seen anything like it.

Here's the whole message:

Hello,

I wrote you the following email the other day and was just following up to make
sure it arrived. This is the last email I will send out, but needed to make sure
everyone received it. Thanks and hopefully this will work for us! Good luck.

Hi there,

I am sending you this email as you are a recent contact of mine on eBay, through
Paypal.

Please do not delete this before reading it in full - it is not a
scam and is not junk mail! -

It actually works. Read the emails below. I am a genuine user of eBay and PAYPAL.
(you can check my email address as it is my ebay user ID as well). You can also
contact me if you wish, and I'll be happy to confirm I am the
sender of this mail. If you have already done one of these, why
not join this list & do another???!!!

I am a regular person always looking for something neat like this to try and I feel
sure that we can both benefit financially from the following plan.

You, like me, might have doubts due to seeing something like this
idea before, but not
in connection with 71 million Paypal accounts. Paypal have
confirmed this to be legal.

The person who sent me the email has already started benefiting
from the plan.

All it involves is a one off initial payment of $5.00 USD and
approximately 20
to 30 minutes of your time.

These are some of the e-mails and proof that I came across which
finally
made me decide that I wanted to try this.

"What an amazing plan. I followed the instructions just 3 weeks
ago, and
although I haven't made 10 grand yet, I am already up to $6,135. I
am
absolutely gob smacked" - Alan Humphries, Leicester

"Well what can I say? I sent out 40 e-mails like the plan said
then I just
forgot about the whole thing. To be honest, I didn't really think
anything would come of it,
but I checked my Paypal account a week later and there was over
$3000.00 in it!!! After 30
days I now have over $11,000 to spend" - Lisa McDonald,
brampton,Ontario

"I was shocked when I saw how much money came flooding into my
Paypal
account. Within 3 weeks my account balance has ballooned to
$7,449. At first
I thought there had been some kind of error!" - Richard Barrie,
New-York, NY

"I was very sceptical when I first read this e-mail, nearly
deleted it but
then I thought about it & decided to give it a go! I spend more
than $5 per week on the lottery,
so what's a one-off payment of $5 going to matter?!! I've got my
fingers crossed that I'll have
some extra spending money in my Paypal account, by the time I go
away in July!" - Dawn Brown, Leicestershire. (PS.Wishing good luck
& fortune to you all!)

If you are eager like I am by this stage, then read the
instructions
outlined below that are from the original e-mail. It is really so
easy to do - then you can just sit back and wait for those
payments to go into your paypal account.

INSTRUCTIONS

The first thing you need to do is send a $5.00 USD payment from your
Paypal
account to the FIRST email address in the list below, along with a
note saying "Here is your $5.00 Gift". Instructions on how to
send a payment are under "SEND MONEY" at the Paypal site. It is
very easy.

The current list is:

1. steveprout2000@yahoo.co.uk

2. kamikazi26@hotmail.com

3. mawarf@aol.com

4. jfridlin@stumail.jccc.net

5. 54321youwon@excite.com

Copy and paste this page (and make any necessary changes) Remove
the email
address that you have paid from the number 1 spot, move all the
others up a
space, and insert your own email address in the number 5 spot Then
send the
page to as many people as you can.

A good way is to send it to all the people in your Paypal history.
(WHEN LOGGED IN, CLICK ON THE HISTORY TAB, THE CLICK "DOWNLOAD MY HISTORY"
AND THEN DOWNLOAD COMPLETE LIST OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TRADED WITH. I'VE FOUND THE BEST
WAY IS TO CHOOSE A DATE RANGE NOT TO BIG, SO IT DOWNLOADS FASTER, THEN CHOOSE "COMMA
DELIMITED - COMPLETED PAYMENTS" FROM THE FILE TYPE MENU AND YOU CAN PULL EMAIL
ADDRESSES FROM THE FILE THAT DOWNLOADS AND PASTE THEM INTO THE EMAIL YOU SEND OUT.
THEN GO BACK TO PAYPAL AND DO IT AGAIN WITH YOUR NEXT DATE RANGE AS FAR BACK AS
YOU WISH TO GO. THE MORE YOU SEND OUT, THE BETTER THE RESULT!!)

Anyone you know with an email address can open a Paypal account if they don't already
have one, so you can also send to your personal list of emails as well. The more,
the better.

ALL I WOULD LIKE TO DO NOW IS WISH YOU GOOD LUCK. IF YOU ARE STILL
UNSURE OR EVEN IF YOU WOULD JUST LIKE TO KNOW HOW THIS WORKS
PLEASE READ ON

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS

When you send out your email, your email address will initially be
at No 5
on the list. THAT IS THE BEST POSITION TO BE IN FOR MAXIMUM
EXPOSURE!!!!!!!
The response rate for this program is much higher than any typical
email marketing campaign for a number of reasons, which are
explained later on. As long as you send out your emails to people
whom are likely to be interested in this program, then on average
you can expect a response of around 25%. But let's be extremely
conservative and assume that the average response rate is 12.5%!
If you send out your 40 emails, you can expect at least 5 of those
people to do exactly what you did (12.5% of 40 = 5 people). By the
time your email address will have moved up to No 4 in the list,
and this list will now have reached around 200 people (5 people x
40 emails = 200 people).

Out of those 200 people, you can expect at least 25 of them to
participate (12.5% of 200 = 25 people) so you are now reaching
around 1000 people
(25 people x 40 emails = 1000) and you are now at No 3 on the
list.

Out of those 1000 people, you can expect at least 125 of them to
participate
(12.5% of 1000 = 125 people) so you are now reaching around 5000
people
(125 people x 40 emails = 5000) and you are now at No 2 on the
list.

Out of those 5000 people, you can expect at least 625 of them to
participate
(12.5% of 5000 = 625 people) so you are now reaching around 25000
people
(625 people x 40 emails = 25000) and you are now at No 1 on the
list.

Out of 25000 people, you can expect at least 3125 of them to
participate
(12.5% of 25000 = 3125 people) so since you are at the No 1 spot
you can expect to
receive around about $15,625 (3125 people x $5.00 = $15,625)

So when your name hit's the No 1 spot, it will be YOUR turn to
collect the
money.

Over the course of 30 days, this money will be sent to you by a
few thousand
people just like yourself, who are willing to invest $5.00 and 20
minutes of their time to
receive around $16,000 or more in cash. The first payments will
arrive within a few days
and then they will continue at the rate of about 100 payments per
day for about 30 days
(obviously this will depend on how quickly you act and how quickly
people take you up on this offer and then pass it on). After that
time, the volume of payments begin to taper off as your email is
removed from the No 1position.

That's all you need to do! There will be around $16,000 in $5.00
payments
waiting for you in your Paypal account within the next few weeks.
$16,000 for just
30 minutes work! This is real money that you can spend on anything
you wish! Just deposit it to your own bank account or spend it
directly from your Paypal account!!!

It's just that easy!!! I think its WORTH IT, don't you?

Remember, the 12.5% example above is assuming that 35 out of the
40 people
you send your email to will do absolutely nothing except delete
your email. However,
if you follow the plan correctly and send your emails only to
people who are likely to want to participate, you can expect a
typical response-rate of around 25%. Hence, the 12.5% example is
only given as a worst-case-scenario.

Additionally, the above example assumes that each participant will
only send
out 40 emails. Imagine what would happen if each participant sent
out 1,000 emails
instead of just 40! Believe me; many people will do this and much
more!

Unlike many other MLM programs, this 5-LEVEL PROGRAM costs you
only $5.00 USD
which is much more realistic and provides much, much faster
results. Only the first person on the list gets your $5.00 gift,
but everyone in the list will rise to that Number 1 position as
thousands of emails are being sent out. No cheating can occur
(don't be fooled by claims that this system can be cheated) as
Paypal only allows one account per person.

Because it is so easy, the response rate is VERY HIGH and VERY
FAST - Internet email is FAST, and you will start seeing dramatic
results in less than one week! JUST IN TIME FOR NEXT MONTHS BILLS!

The worst that can happen is that you get your $5.00 USD back if only
one person replies!!!

For those who choose not to try this, I appreciate your time in reviewing this,
and if you wish to be removed from my email list, respond to this and let me know
and I will remove your email address from the list.

Thank you and good luck in your ventures.

Original of the message was taken from http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/

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