[107457] in Cypherpunks
RE: Scam Alert.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (xasper8d@lobo.net)
Thu Jan 14 14:20:27 1999
From: "X" <xasper8d@lobo.net>
To: "Robert Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>, <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:13:54 -0700
In-Reply-To: <v04020a1ab2c3ddbcb319@[139.167.130.246]>
Reply-To: "X" <xasper8d@lobo.net>
Thank YOU! Last year I sent six dollars to these people on some list I got,
and later that afternoon I had received $1.8x10^9 and put it in my eSchwab
account earning 5% tax free. Now those Infernal guys want a piece of it?
I don't think so! I WORKED for that money! I licked six stamps, for Pete's
sake!
Thank you for the warning, the SCAM envelope arrived this morning.
X
~>
~> ** 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!
~>
~> --- end forwarded text
~>
~>
~> -----------------
~> 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'
~>
~>
