My various anti-spam emails are always popular, so I thought I’d mention the following email I received the other day. Basically, this is a pyramid scheme and the great thing about pyramid schemes is that the only people who get the money are those who start the buggering things, so don’t be fooled. Here’s the email for those of you who are googling this way:
Dear EBAY MEMBER,
I am sending you this email as you are a past 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. You will note from my feedback,
that I am a genuine user of ebay and PAYPAL.
We are all ebay users to make money or save money and I feel sure that
we can both benefit financially from the following plan.
Yes, you like myself have no doubt had this idea put forward before, but not
in connection with 71 million Paypal accounts. Paypal have also admitted
that this is legal.
The person who sent me the email has already started benefiting from the
plan.
All it involves is a one off payment of £3.00 and approximately 15 to 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.
“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, 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 skeptical 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 £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, 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.
If you are offended in any way by this email then please accept my
apologies, I will only be trying this once.
INSTRUCTIONS
The first thing you need to do is send a £3.00 payment from your Paypal
account to the FIRST email address in the list below, along with a note
saying “PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR LIST”. Instructions on how to send a payment
are under “SEND MONEY” at the Paypal site. It is very easy.
The current list is:
1 ebay@cwsmusicdept.wanadoo.co.uk
2 henrietta.page@btinternet.com
2 alexlyn@msn.com
4 the-challengers@supanet.com
5 a.weathers@btinternet.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. (GO
TO HISTORY TAB AND THEN DOWNLOAD COMPLETE LIST OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TRADED
WITH )
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 your 40 emails I HAVE
JUST SENT THIS TO 2513 PEOPLE!, 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 £9,375 (3125 people x £3.00 = £9,375)
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 £3.00 and 20
minutes of their time to receive around £10,000 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 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 £3.00 payments
waiting for you in your Paypal account within the next few weeks. £10,000
for just 20 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 it’s 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! I HAVE JUST SENT THIS MANY MORE PEOPLE!
Unlike many other MLM programs, this 5-LEVEL PROGRAM costs you only £3.00
which is much more realistic and provides much, much faster results. Only
the first person on the list gets your £3.00 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 FAST,
and you will start seeing dramatic results in less than one week! JUST IN
TIME FOR NEXT MONTHS BILLS!
Thank you for your time, and good luck.
Ps. You can download your paypal history as a MS Excel file, this is a
great way to quickly access all your stored email address’s from your
paypal transactions, to send this email on to another (don’t forget to
remove the ukebay fees email address if that appears). Once you’ve
downloaded the history, locate the 2 columns that contain the email
addresses you have sent to or received paypal funds from. Then just cut and
paste these into your “Send to” list on your email
It’s a scam, so avoid it. I did report it to PayPal, but they weren’t interested even though this is probably a breach of its terms and conditions.
In the post: two tickets to David Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall on 31 May 2006. Unfortunately, the Missus is away on business then (I ordered these in December before we knew she was going to be away) and I don’t have any friends. So with great dismay, I guess I’ll just have to flog them on eBay. No, I am not a ticket tout. I just can’t be arsed shlepping down to Exhibition Road on me tod with a spare ticket. 🙁

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