[107454] in Cypherpunks
Scam Alert.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Jan 14 13:16:30 1999
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:45:40 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:15:55 -0500
To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.blackdown.org
Subject: Scam Alert.
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:15:02 -0500
From: glen mccready <glen@qnx.com>
Resent-From: 0xdeadbeef@substance.blackdown.org
Resent-Sender: 0xdeadbeef-request@substance.blackdown.org
Forwarded-by: Nev Dull <nev@bostic.com>
Forwarded-by: grendel <grendel@alaska.net>
Forwarded-by: Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net>
** SCAM ALERT!
** WARNING!
** PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!
** THIS IS SERIOUS!
If you get an envelope from a group called the "Internal Revenue Service,"
DO NOT OPEN IT!
This group operates a scam around this time every year. Their letter
claims that you owe them money, which they will take and use to pay for
the operation of so called essential functions of the United States
government.
This is untrue! The money the IRS collects is used to fund various
inefficient and pointless social engineering projects. This organization
has ties to another shady outfit called the Social Security
Administration, who claim to take money from your regular paychecks and
save it for your retirement. In truth, the SSA uses the money to pay for
the same misguided make-work projects the IRS helps mastermind. They have
no intention of ever giving your money back
These scam artists have bilked honest, hard working American out of
billions of dollars. Don't be among them!
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
