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JWB
06-07-2002, 02:45 PM
Im sick of these stupid idiots posting this chain letter on my site. I have literally deleted it over 30 times and 9 out of 10 its almost the exact same thing:

Free Money For All No Joke
Listen, when I first did this I thought it was just some little kid trying to make money for himself, let me just tell say.. you will make ALOT of money.. after 2 months I received over 20,000 dollars?. That?s roughly 10,000 dollars a month?and All I spent on this was 6$ ,Read what?s below and follow the directions .
Here is the original post:
*****A little while back, I was browsing through a newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investment of $6.00! So I thought, Yeah right, this must be a scam, but like most of us, I was curious, so I kept reading. Anyway, it said that you need to send $1.00 to each of the 6 names and address stated in the article. So after thinking it over, and talking to a few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured: "what have I got to lose except 6 stamps and $6.00, right?" Then I invested the measly $6.00. Well GUESS WHAT!!... within 7 days, I started getting money in the mail! I was shocked! I figured it would end soon, but the money just kept coming in. In my first week, I made about $20 . By the end of the second week I had made a total of over $1,000 ! In the third week I had over $15,000 and it's still growing.****
--Let me tell you how this works and most importantly, why it works.... Read this entire message carefully! PRINT IT OR DOWNLOAD IT I promise you that if you follow the directions exactly, that you will start making more money than you thought possible by doing something so easy!
IMPORTANT: This is not a rip-off it is not indecent it is not illegal and it is virtually no risk - it really works!!!! If all of the following instructions are adhered to, you will receive extraordinary dividends.
Here are the 3 easy steps to success:
STEP 1:
Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of paper "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST. Now get 6 US $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 6 pieces of paper so the bill will not be seen through the envelope . Also, it might be a good idea to wrap the $1 bill in dark paper to prevent thievery. Next, place one paper in each of the 6 envelopes and seal them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece of paper stating the phrase PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST., your name and address, and a $1.00 bill. What you are doing is creating a service. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! You are requesting a legitimate service and you are paying for it! Like most of us I was a little skeptical and a little worried about the legal aspects of it all. So I checked it out with the U.S. Post Office 1-800-725-2161 and they confirmed that it is indeed legal! Mail the 6 envelopes to the following addresses:


-----GAy Peoples names and stuff goes here======

REMEMBER TO PUT ENOUGH STAMPS ON YOUR ENVELOPES!!!!
STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the other names up, 6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc... and add YOUR Name as number 6 on the list.
STEP 3: Change anything you need to, but try to keep this article as close to original as possible. Now, post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups-like this one. I think there are close to 2.4million groups All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the more money you make! This is perfectly legal! If you have any doubts, refer to Title 18 Sec. 1302 & 1341 of the Postal lottery laws. Keep a copy of these steps for yourself and, whenever you need money, you can use it again, and again.
**PLEASE REMEMBER: that this program remains successful because of the honesty and integrity of the participants and by their carefully adhering to the directions. Look at it this way. If you are of integrity, the program will continue and the money that so many others have received will come your way.
**NOTE: You may want to retain every name and address sent to you, either on a computer or hard copy and keep the notes people send you. This VERIFIES that you are truly providing a service So, as each post is downloaded and the directions carefully followed, six members will be reimbursed for their participation as a List Developer with one dollar each. Your name will move up the list geometrically so that when your name reaches the #1 position you will be receiving thousands of dollars in CASH!!!
**DIRECTIONS ----- FOR HOW TO POST TO NEWSGROUPS------------
Step: 1)You do not need to re-type this entire letter to do your own posting.Simply put your cursor at the beginning of this letter and drag your cursor to the bottom of this document, and select 'copy' from the edit menu. This will copy the entire letter into the computer's memory.
....... 2)Open a blank 'notepad' file and place your cursor at the top of the blank page. From the 'edit' menu select 'paste'. This will paste a copy of the letter into notepad so that you can add your name to the list.
........3)Save your new notepad file as a .txt file. If you want to do your postings in different settings, you'll always have this file to go back to.
.......4)Use Netscape or Internet explorer and try searching for various newsgroups on-line forums, message boards, chat sites, discussions.
.......5 Visit these message boards and post this article as a new message by highlighting the text of this letter and selecting paste from the edit menu. Fill in the Subject, this will be the header that everyone sees as they scroll through the list of postings in a particular group, click the post message button.You're done with your first one!Congratulations..THAT'S IT!
All you have to do is jump to different newsgroups and post away, after you get the hang of it, it will take about 30 seconds for each newsgroup!
**REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200**
That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within days! You may eventually want to rent a P.O.Box due to the large amount of mail you will receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you can invent a name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it.
**JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.**
**Now the WHY part:
Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter. Now, each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each with my name at #5 and only 5 persons respond to each of the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and only 5 replies each, I will bring in an additional $125 ! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #3 and only receive 5 replies each, I will make an additional $626 ! OK, now here is the fun part, each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at #2 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125 !!!
Those 3,125 persons will all deliver this message to 200 newsgroups with my name at #1 and if still ONLY 5 persons per 200 newsgroups react I will receive $15,625 ! With an original investment of only $6.00! AMAZING! When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $6.00 to names on the list, putting your name at number 6 again. And start posting again.


I would appreciate a hack that woud search for certain sentences setup by the admins or mods and automatically disables a persons account if they write it, giving them a message saying their account is under review -> one nice feature would be if it only did this to people with less than 50 or a 100 post, because most real members wont post it...

Sparkz
06-07-2002, 02:49 PM
Err, you just posted a chainletter here ;)

WizyWyg
06-07-2002, 06:22 PM
It can't be helped, there is no way to auto check for spam.

Just post an announcement to your board with an excerpt from the spam that you will not tolerate anyone posting it anymore.

BTW its illegal anyway. You can turn that poster in to the USPS and FEd Govt since its illegal.

Just put your foot down and say that you will suspend the person who posted it for 1 week/month/year if they do it.


Here is more information you can post with your warning:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/doznalrt.htm
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/chainmail/index.html
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2002/02/eileenspam1.htm
http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html
http://www.scamfreezone.com/scams.shtml (which shows yu the variations of the scam you have)

And that any posting shall be reported to:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/chainmail/reportit.htm

JWB
06-07-2002, 08:00 PM
First of off I deleted any contact any info, etc from that chain letter so its no good...

Anyways why is it imposible to have a php script run automatically with cron or something and automatically delete and ban members or whatever ->

I ban the people who do that forever the first time without any warning, there is tons of people who do it, Im about sick of it.. My board must just be particularly good looking to spammers for some reason.... Theres no way to prove that who did it really did it, and its a waste of time trying to report them.... I just sign there email up to a bunch of spam and thats about it.. Dont know what else to do...

Logician
06-07-2002, 09:32 PM
This hack is in my to-do list (which is a very long list btw). I want to create an BANNED WORDS alternative in which if a banned word is used user's usergroup automatically changes. In my board I'll put them into moderated users usergroup, you can directly ban them if that's what you want.

However there is one downside: If the user is wise you cant trap him more than once: Say you banned "microsoft" and he used and got banned. What will stop him reregistering and then post:
micro-soft
micr?s?ft
m i c r o s o f t
_micro_soft_
etc?

So at internet banned word filters are always useless however I'm still determined to code that when I can finish other hacks that have priority to me. If someone likes to code it before me, please be my guest.. :)

Logician