Has anybody ever tried something like this?

[Terr]

These ones are SO old, and just reading it makes me mad at whomever wrote it, with blatant lies everywhere and obvious messages to try to keep you from doing anything...

The problem with these schemes, is that it all depends on whether YOU can convice other people to give you money and then they ask other people...

Nobody gets anything out of it, it's just moving money toward the first people to 'sign up'. Getting any money yourself depends on getting suckers to send you money. Which is what the originator is doing...

It's really so transparent, I don't know why so many people seem to fall for them. <sigh>

But yes, these ARE illegal. They're flat-out lying.

[jaguar291]

By the end of the second sentence I could tell it was a scam, wouldn't even have wasted my time reading that crap.

[zaggy]

Unfortunately too many fall for these schemes that is why they can stay around.

The get rich quick mentality. It hurts so many people.

Never going to stop them regardless of them being illegal. Too many gulllible people around.

[Old Man]

Send me $25 and I'll teach you everything you need to know to cut all of your bills in half instantly! Complete kit included!! LOL!!!

[draziw]

This is just one of those old pyramid schemes and, as such, is actually illegal... you send them $25 (used to be $5) and then they send you a reply that "teaches" you how to send out an email and ask people to send YOU $25, etc, etc, etc...

But, a little math will show you that it doesn't take very long before this post spans the world and, well... no one can really make money off of it anymore.

[Und3ertak3r]

You are wrong .... it realy works.. Oh I am absolutly filthy rich.. and a bad week sees no less than $5000 rolling into my accounts....... oh man oh man...

Ahhh sorry I'll take my hand off it.... sorry ..now for the truth..

Yes it is a pyramid scheme and yes in many countries it is illegal. In some it operates in the grey area of the law.. That is you are buying a product (a photocopied set of sheets, or on the internet it may be a glamourous PDF file now), then when it is your turn to make money you are now selling the same product.. Your goal is not to get to the top of a list, but to be on the top of many many many lists.
Many of the people who play in these scamms don't realise that they are scams, those who do know and stay, make the money.. The other area are the internet Gold Gamers.. with schemes offering returns between 20% and 200% a week on your investment.. tes even hundreds of thousands of dollars dissappear every week over the internet in these schemes..
You find that there are a core group who instigate each scam , these work as a team to grow the "Organisation", then when the money is right.. the whole lot folds... only to start up a couple of months later with a new name .. but the same old faces.

I had a friend introduce me to these scams.. he gave up.. After nearly losing his house.. Me.. well I lost some AU$5000.. and some good friends.. I learn't about the maths.. and it looks good in some of these scams.. but they don't tell you abot the bubble effect.. it does burst!!

Oh BTW.. I have a fellew who is selling shares in a hi traffic bridge in Sydney.. ...oh B*ll Sh*t

Cheers

[ReZpawner]

HEH! i can't belive some peeps actually falls for that lame crap, i hope this question answers your question:
Why on earth would someone give you a million dollars, just becouse you gave them 25$????
no one in this world is trying to make other people richer than themselves, unless they profit from it of course, heh.
face it! if i were you, i would delete all the mails saying "WIN MILLIONS OF CASH HERE!" or other lame **** like that. that`s what i do.
and hey, it works for me!
(oh, have you ever heard about any1 who got a mill just becouse he answered a mail?)
ReZpawner

[Prankster]

I'm going to e-mail them back and try to get them to prove to me that it works, I'm gonna keep emailing them asking them questions about it, until *hopefully* they finally give in and reveal to me that it is a scam... counld be fun... P

[ReZpawner]

heh, i would call that a waste of time, but, heh, if you dont have anything better to do, sure, why not. =]
i wouldnt expect to get any mails back though.
bah, enough about e-mails, does any1 have any pr0n?

[draziw]

The other "big" one recently is the scam where some guy in Africa mails you to say that they need an American to get their millions of dollars out of a bank in the US and, for doing so, will give you a tidy sum. The ultimate goal turns out to eventually lead you to their country where you have no priviledges (or resources) and get all of your money out of you... a few have even ended up dead over it.