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Subject: Parents of 15-year-old find $71,000 cash hidden in his closet


> Parents of 15-year-old find $71,000 cash hidden in his closet
>
> Does this headline look familiar? Of course it does. You most
> likely have just seen this story recently featured on a major
> nightly news program (USA).
>
> His mother was cleaning and putting laundry away when she came
> across a large brown paper bag that was suspiciously buried
> beneath some clothes and a skateboard in the back of her
> 15-year-old son's closet. Nothing could have prepared her for the
> shock she got when she opened the bag and found it was full of
> cash. Five dollar bills, twenties, fifties and hundreds- all
> neatly rubber-banded in labeled piles. "My first thought was that
> he had robbed a bank", says the 41-year-old woman, "There was over
> $71,000 dollars in that bag- that's more than my husband earns in
> a year".
>
> The woman immediately called her husband at the car-dealership
> where he worked to tell him what she'd discovered. He came home
> right away and they drove together to the boy's school and picked
> him up. Little did they suspect that where the money came from
> was more shocking than actually finding it in the closet.
>
> As it turns out, the boy had been sending out via E-mail on the
> Internet a type of 'chain-letter' to E-mail addresses that he
> obtained off of the Internet. Everyday after school for the past
> 2 months, he had been doing this right on his computer in his
> bedroom.
>
> "I just got the E-mail one day and I figured what the heck, I put
> my name on it like the instructions said and I started sending it
> out", says the clever 15-year-old.
>
> The E-mail letter listed 3 addresses and contained instructions to
> send one $5 dollar bill to the person at the top of the list, then
> delete that address and move the other 2 addresses up, and finally
> to add your name to the bottom of the list. The letter goes on to
> state that you would receive several thousand dollars in five
> dollar bills within 2 weeks if you sent out the letter with your
> name at the bottom of the 3-address list "I get junk E-mail all
> the time, and I really didn't think it was gonna work", the boy
> continues.
>
> Within the first few days of sending out the E-mail, the Post
> Office Box that his parents had gotten him for his video-game
> magazine subscriptions began to fill up with not magazines, but
> envelopes containing $5 dollar bills. "about a week later I rode
> [my bike] down to the post office and my box had 1 magazine and
> about 300 envelopes stuffed in it. There was also a yellow slip
> that said I had to go up to the [post office] counter- I thought I
> was in trouble or something (laughs)". He goes on, "I went up to
> the counter and they had a whole box of more mail for me. I had
> to ride back home and empty out my backpack 'cause I couldn't
> carry it all".
>
> Over the next few weeks, the boy continued sending out the E-mail.
> "The money just kept coming in and I just kept sorting it and
> stashing it in the closet, I barely had time for my homework". He
> had also been riding his bike to several of the area's banks and
> exchanging the $5 bills for twenties, fifties and hundreds. "I
> didn't want the banks to get suspicious so I kept riding to
> different banks with like five thousand at a time in my backpack.
> I would usually tell the lady at the bank counter that my dad had
> sent me in [to exchange the money] and he was outside waiting for
> me. One time the lady gave me a really strange look and told me
> that she wouldn't be able to do it for me and my dad would have to
> come in and do it, but I just rode to the next bank down the
> street (laughs)."
>
> Surprisingly, the boy didn't have any reason to be afraid. The
> reporting news team examined and investigated the so-called
> 'chain-letter' the boy was sending out and found that it wasn't a
> chain-letter at all. In fact, it was completely legal according
> to US Postal and Lottery Laws, Title 18, Section 1302 and 1341, or
> Title 18, Section 3005 in the US code, also in the code of federal
> regulations, Volume 16, Sections 255 and 436, which state a
> product or service must be exchanged for money received.
>
> Every five dollar bill that he received contained a little note
> that read, "Please add me to your mailing list". This simple note
> made the letter legal because he was exchanging a service (adding
> the purchasers name to his mailing list) for a five dollar fee.
>
> Here is the letter that the 15-year-old was sending out by E-mail,
> you can do the exact same thing he was doing, simply by following
> the instructions in this letter-
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Here are instructions on how to make $10,000 US cash in the next 2
> weeks:
>
> There are 3 addresses listed below.
>
> Send the person at the top of the list a $5 bill wrapped in 2
> pieces of paper (to securely hide it), along with a note that
> says: "Please add me to your mailing list".
>
> Then delete that name, move the other 2 up and put your name at
> the bottom.
>
> Now start sending this ENTIRE E-mail back out to people. When 20
> people receive it, those 20 people will move your name up to the
> middle position and they will each send out 20. That totals 400
> people that will receive this letter with your name in the middle.
> Then, those 400 people will move your name up to the top and they
> will each send out 20 E-mails. That totals 8,000 people that will
> receive this E-mail with your name at the top and they will each
> send you a $5 bill.
>
> 8,000 people each sending you a $5 bill = $40,000 cash. That's if
> everyone responds to this E-mail, but not everyone will, so you
> can expect more realistically to receive about $10,000 cash $5
> bills in your mailbox.
>
> This will work for anyone, anywhere in the world in any country,
> but send only a US CASH $5 bill.
>
> The more E-mails you send out, the more cash you will receive. If
> each person sends out 100 E-mails, there will be 1,000,000 people
> that receive this letter when your name reaches the top. If only
> 1% of those people respond, you will still get $50,000 cash.
>
> Here is the list:
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>1) Discount Homes
>21359A  Highway 30
>Filer, ID  83328

>2) Deanna Perron
>2547 Poleline Road East
>Twin Falls, ID  83301

>3) A. Knibbs
>P. O. Box 4166
>Pinehurst, NC 28374

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>
> THERE'S NOTHING MORE TO DO. When your name reaches the top in a
> few days, you will start receiving $5 bills from other people just
> like yourself, who are willing to invest a $5 bill to receive
> $10,000 cash.
>
> If you don't try it- you will never know.
>Hope is worth the $5.  Better odds that the lottery gives you!