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AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TV: This is the media report.
PARENTS OF 15 - YEAR OLD - FIND
$71,000 CASH HIDDEN IN HIS
CLOSET!!!
Does this headline look familiar? Of course it does.
You most likely
have just seen this story recently featured
on a major nightly news program (USA). And reported
elsewhere in the world
(including my neck of the woods -
New Zealand). His mother was cleaning and putting laundry
away when she came across
a large brown paper bag that was
suspiciously buried beneath some clothes and a skateboard
in the back of her 15-year-old
son's closet.
Nothing could have prepared her for the shock she got when
she opened the bag and found it was full
of cash.
Five-dollar bills, twenties, fifties and hundreds - all
neatly rubber-banded in labelled piles.
"My
first thought was that he had robbed a bank", says the
41-year-old woman, "There was over $71,000 dollars in
that
bag - that's more than my husband earns in a year".
The woman immediately called her husband at the
car-dealership
where he worked to tell him what she had
discovered.He came home right away and they drove together
to the boys school
and picked him up. Little did they
suspect that where the money came from was more shocking
than actually finding it
in the closet.
As it turns out, the boy had been sending out, via E-mail,
a type of "Report" to E-mail
addresses that he obtained off
the Internet. Everyday after school for the past 2 months,
he had been doing this right
on his computer in his
bedroom.
"I just got the E-mail one day and I figured what the heck,
I put my name
on it like the instructions said and I
started sending it out", says the clever 15-year-old.
The E-mail letter
listed 5 addresses and contained
instructions to send one $5 dollar bill to each person on
the list, then delete the
address at the top and move the
others addresses Down, and finally to add your name to the
top of the list.
The
letter goes on to state that you would receive several
thousand dollars in five-dollar bills within 2 weeks if you
sent
out the letter with your name at the top of the
5-address list. "I get junk E-mail all the time,and really
did
not think it was going to work", the boy continues.
Within the first few days of sending out the E-mail, the
Post
Office Box that his parents had gotten him for his
video-game magazine subscriptions began to fill up with not
magazines,
but envelopes containing $5 bills.
"About a week later I rode [my bike] down to the post
office and my box
had 1 magazine and about 300 envelops
stuffed in it. There was also a yellow slip that said I had
to go up to the [post
office] counter.
I thought I was in trouble or something (laughs)". He goes
on, "I went up to the counter
and they had a whole box of
more mail for me. I had to ride back home and empty out my
backpack because I could not
carry it all".
Over the next few weeks, the boy continued sending out the
E-mail."The money just kept
coming in and I just kept
sorting it and stashing it in the closet, barely had time
for my homework".He had also
been riding his bike to
several of the banks in his area and exchanging the $5
bills for twenties, fifties and hundreds.
"I
didn't want the banks to get suspicious so I kept riding
to different banks with like five thousand at a time in my
backpack.
I would usually tell the lady at the bank counter
that my dad had sent me in to exchange the money and he was
outside
waiting for me.One time the lady gave me a really
strange look and told me that she would not be able to do
it for me
and my dad would have to come in and do it, but I
just rode to the next bank down the street (laughs)."
Surprisingly,
the boy did not have any reason to be afraid.
The reporting news team examined and investigated the
so-called "chain-letter"
the boy was sending out and found
that it was not a chain-letter at all.In fact, it was
completely legal according to
US Postal and Lottery Laws,
Title 18, Section 1302 and 1341, or Title 18, Section 3005
in the US code, also in the code
of federal regulations,
Volume 16, Sections 255 and 436, which state a product or
service must be exchanged for money
received.
Every five-dollar bill that he received contained a little
note that read, "Please send me report
number XYX".This
simple note made the letter legal because he was exchanging
a service (A Report on how-to) for
a five-dollar fee.
[This is the end of the media release. If you would like to
understand how the system works and
get your $71,000 -
please continue reading. What appears below is what the 15
year old was sending out on the net -
YOU CAN USE IT TOO -
just follow the simple instructions].
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