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UrbanMenace82
25th July 2006, 18:51
Just received this in email from a guy i bought stuff off ebay from.

I know there are loads of scams out there and this has been done with vast amounts of money, but for £3 im gonna have a go, and you should to, £3 is nothing, and it only takes one person to pay you back for you to break even.

What can i say im a sucker for money making schemes :beer:

Try it, who knows!. I've already paid my £3 out and took the top address off the list and added mine on the bottom.

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I am an E-bay seller/buyer and we may have previously done business. I apologise
if you have already received this email. I think this is worth a look and
all I ask is that you read all of the following.

Firstly I know this kind of thing is not for everybody so if it's not for
you please accept my apologies.

As we may of done business on e-bay, I thought you might be interested in this money
making opportunity. The most you can lose is £3.00 and you could make a lot
of money. I don't normally take part in this sort of thing but after reading
all the fuss about this and several emails I thought I'd give it a try! I
have just paid someone £3.00 so it is working for someone!!

Please note I am a genuine buyer/seller on e-bay and PAYPAL and a real
genuine person hoping to earn some cash. I feel sure that we can both
benefit financially from the following plan.

This e-mail is going round paypal and e-bay users and it seems to be
working. Please do not delete this before reading in full, this is not a
scam. Yes, like me, you have no doubt heard this before in some form but not
in connection with 78 million PAYPAL accounts. PAYPAL have also admitted
that this is legal and trading standards are not aware of any problem.

All it involves is a one off initial payment of £3, and approximately 20
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. I'm just
trying it for fun really, I'm sceptical about it I will admit, but I'm fed
up of trying to win the lottery!

Testimonies:

"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. Am
absolutely gobsmacked" - Alan Humphries,
Leicester.

"Well what can I say? I sent out 40 e-mails like the plan said then 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 £3,000 in it!!! After 30 days I now have over £11,000 to
spend" - Lisa McDonald,
Northampton.

"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,
Cirencester.

"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! Some people spend more than £3 per week on the
lottery, so what's a one-off payment of £3 going to matter!! I've got my
fingers crossed that I'll have some extra spending money in my paypal
account very soon!!
PS Wishing good luck & fortune to you all."- Jackie.

The problem with these types of scheme is that usually they run out of
people to pass onto - but with 78 million users and more joining every day,
how likely is that? Plus, they usually require high investment - this
doesn't!!

If you are eager like I am by this stage, then read the instructions
outlined below, taken 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 go to www.paypal.com and send a £3.00
payment from your Paypal account to the FIRST email address in the list
below.
You will also have to select a Subject; 'Service' or 'Goods (other)' should
be fine.
Instructions on how to send a payment are under 'SEND MONEY' at the Paypal
site. It is very easy.

The current list is:

1) jameskav@aol.com
2) leanneandrews78@aol.com
3) xenarc@hotmail.com
4) mbitzandbobz@aol.com
5) payments@jackalhosting.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 (Remember to
take EXTRA care when typing the email addresses) 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.

GO TO HISTORY TAB ON PAYPAL AND THEN 'DOWNLOAD HISTORY' FOR COMPLETE LIST.
WHERE IT ASKS FOR FILE TYPES FOR DOWNLOAD SELECT COMMA DELIMITED ALL
ACTIVITY. SELECT THE DATE TO HOW FAR BACK YOU WISH TO GO THEN OPEN THE
FILE, DRAG YOUR MOUSE DOWN THE 'EMAIL FROM' COLUMN. COPY AND PASTE ALL THE
ADDRESSES TO YOUR NEW EMAIL, THEN JUST SEND. EASY.

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 that you can be in if you want
to earn serious money.

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 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, 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 x 40 emails) 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) so you are now reaching 5000
people (125 x 40 emails) and you are now No 2 on the list.

Out of those 5000 people you can expect at least 650 of them to participate
(12.5% of 5000 = 625) so you are now reaching around 25000 people (625 x 40
emails) 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) so since you are now at the
No1 spot you can expect to receive around £9375 (3125 x £3).

So, when your name hits 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 like yourself who are willing to invest £3 and 20 minutes
of time to receive around £10,000 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 begins to taper off as your email is
removed from the No 1 position. That's all you need to do! There will be
around £10,000 in £3 payments waiting for you in your Paypal account within
the next few weeks. £10,000 for so little work! This is real money that you
can spend on anything you wish.

Just transfer it from your Paypal account to your bank account.

It's that easy!!!

Remember, the 12.5% example is assuming 35 out of 40 people you send your
email to will do absolutely nothing with it except delete it.

Additionally, the above example assumes that each participant will send out
only 40 emails. Imagine what would happen if each participant sent out 1000
emails instead!

Unlike many other MLM programs this 5-LEVEL PROGRAM costs you only £3.00
which is much more realistic and provides much faster results. Only the
first person on the list gets your £3.00 gift, but everyone on the list will
rise to the No 1 position as thousands of emails are being sent out.

No cheating can occur (don't be fooled by claims this system can be cheated)
as Paypal only allows one account per person.

Because it's that easy the response rate is VERY HIGH and VERY FAST.
Internet email fast!! You may start seeing dramatic results in less than one
week

saxodan
25th July 2006, 18:53
Been done loads! Dont do it!!!!

Started of with some kid doing it in the post in america

willsy
25th July 2006, 18:55
It works ok, Dad gave it a crack a few months ago, hes had just over £100 back so far. Not a bad effort.

DarylVTR
25th July 2006, 19:00
id never do it personally , sounds like a good way for them to get ur details or make money from people

UrbanMenace82
25th July 2006, 19:07
i did it because i know ppl who have got loads out of it, at £3 its worth a go

Connor_scotland
25th July 2006, 20:06
thats qaulity but i wouldnt do it

DarylVTR
25th July 2006, 21:55
i did it because i know ppl who have got loads out of it, at £3 its worth a go

hmmm still wouldnt do it, did you start / own rights to this scheme / the money by any chance lol , you see this kind of thing on ebay 24/7

when it says 'this isnt a scam its real i have earnt £10,000!' you know its going to be a scam LOL

and123rew
25th July 2006, 22:06
sounds like it works lovely in theory dont it!

TU-Tuning
25th July 2006, 22:53
If it sounds too good to be true it is. Whats in it for them? how are they making the money?

Data is the most valuable asset to a business, and giving your data to them allows them to sell it on to other comapnies. Maybe they will give you some money back, but feck knows who they will sell your details too.

Plus if it wasnt fake it would have been on the news by now and would be huge. It just screams scam to me

beastgtir
25th July 2006, 22:58
read up on pyramid schemes...

the original people who set this up are the ones who made money from it...
everyone else is so down the scale they wont make hardly any money from it...

Mitchell
25th July 2006, 23:20
i get them through the post all the time

'hi, my name is roderick and i have a villa, a mansion, 5 jags and a super model wife because of this scheme, try it meight!!!111'

fuck off u tart

UrbanMenace82
25th July 2006, 23:23
usually the schemes are for thousanfs of pounds, were a few going round work, this has much more chance of success because its for such a small amount

DarylVTR
25th July 2006, 23:25
hmm why dont established members even post this sort of thing its always noobies LOL , which again makes u think .... without meaning to sound harsh or anything mate might be trie but i dont think any1 on here will be silly enough to hand all thie paypal details over and send some money to some people they have never heard of.

boro_andy
26th July 2006, 18:36
a very simple scam, easy to see how it works. agree to give them money when u dont actually need to. just copy that and put ur name anywhere in that list and bobs ur uncle. u dont actually need to send him 3 quid by the looks of it

jay-vtr
6th April 2008, 19:22
This multi layer marketing, an online pyramid scheme. Please search for this on google to see exactly how it works :)

Suprise suprise...

1) jameskav@aol.com
2) leanneandrews78@aol.com
3) xenarc@hotmail.com
4) mbitzandbobz@aol.com
5) payments@jackalhosting.com

All of these e-mails are linked to ONE paypal account

Scammed :)

Andi9386
6th April 2008, 19:36
id never do it personally , sounds like a good way for them to get ur details or make money from people

I agree there, all they've got to do is get your Credit/ Debit Card details and suprise suprise your money disappers from your bank account. :shocked::shocked::angry::angry:

Andi9386
6th April 2008, 19:39
i get them through the post all the time

'hi, my name is roderick and i have a villa, a mansion, 5 jags and a super model wife because of this scheme, try it meight!!!111'

fuck off u tart

I get stuff like that EVERY week in one of my other email accounts.

"Your help is needed, Mr X died last week and there is the sum of $10,000,000 wating for you in an American Bank Account.
Please help us to help you by replying to this email with your bank account details.!"

Does my head in, so I just report it as Spam.

mrolinc
6th April 2008, 19:51
Congratulations on losing £3. You will never get that back. You will never make any profit. This is quite obviously a Pyramid Scheme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme).

Ibiza_Rik
6th April 2008, 20:01
This multi layer marketing, an online pyramid scheme. Please search for this on google to see exactly how it works :)

Suprise suprise...

1) jameskav@aol.com
2) leanneandrews78@aol.com
3) xenarc@hotmail.com
4) mbitzandbobz@aol.com
5) payments@jackalhosting.com

All of these e-mails are linked to ONE paypal account

Scammed :)

Don't worry people, detective Jays on the case :detective:

Lozza_vtr
6th April 2008, 20:02
Pyramid scheme, tried them a few times before with no success!

kylie
6th April 2008, 20:08
such a gamble. i would rather stay skint as i am now than risk losing any money tbh. 3 quid is lot of money to me. can buy a pint wi that. i think if it was that simple everyone would be doing it.

matt-88
6th April 2008, 21:11
You can buy 3pints in gambia for that.

craigant
7th April 2008, 00:00
can ya not just add your email address to it without sendin that dude £3 would still work right???

Graham
7th April 2008, 00:05
I get stuff like that EVERY week in one of my other email accounts.

"Your help is needed, Mr X died last week and there is the sum of $10,000,000 wating for you in an American Bank Account.
Please help us to help you by replying to this email with your bank account details.!"

Does my head in, so I just report it as Spam.

reminds me of fonejacker and george with his uganda dollars :P

stupac50pence
7th April 2008, 00:10
Pyramid scheme, tried them a few times before with no success!

i agree, stay away!! £3 aint much but would rather have it in my pocket than in some scammers account. I get emails all the time from people in nigeria saying they want to give me $50 milllion just so they can get my account details and empty the bar steward. Dont do it!!!!!!!!!!!! :wall:

Jazz
7th April 2008, 00:12
Blatently another pyramid scheme which makes you think "ohh yes, lets make some free money" and instead just makes a fool out of you. Wouldn't bother lose my £3 tbh.

RedB
7th April 2008, 00:14
reminds me of fonejacker and george with his uganda dollars :P

But Sir it is totally innocent :P

Haha as Jay said on Pg 1 everyone...

This is a Pyramid scheme all linked back to the same company/paypal so only they benefit from it unless you set one up with 5 of your own addresses lol

*I am not responsible in any way/shape/form if you do*

Dont waste your time replying to the scheme even though it sounds good it's set up so there is only one winner...

Ibiza_Rik
7th April 2008, 00:16
think it was proved it was a scam tbh... not much more to say

mattchewone
7th April 2008, 08:36
Just change the email address to yours and then send it on to others and await payment.

Hanuman
7th April 2008, 09:36
as someone said if it sounds to good to be true IT IS! someone down the line will have made money from it originally ripping people, i wouldnt even bother with that crap