Still going strong


Almost a year ago I at least cursorily examined make money fast schemes via the internet in a column that dealt with personal vs. impersonal e-mail, and alluded to them again a few months later when examining spam. Back then I enjoyed collecting the various reports that showed up on the listservs I read - reports in which someone invariably told us that he never believed in schemes of this sort, but being in desperate need of funds decided to give it a try, and lo and behold, it worked. And since he was now rich he wanted to give us poor readers a chance to become rich as well.

Someone, sometime, is probably going to write thesis on these schemes, examining the frequency with which they show up on various newsgroups. I'd suggest also examining (if one can get informaton on the subject) the amount of experience the posters have on the internet, and what other uses they make of it other than as a source of wealth. For my own part, in the past three months only three letters of this sort have shown up on the lists I subscribe to. But then perhaps we're in a dry period and they'll spring up again soon.



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