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Author Topic: If this is legal with paypal then I am shocked  (Read 1443 times)
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« on: July 26, 2005, 09:35:40 PM »

I just got this email:


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THIS IS LEGAL according to the PAYPAL authorities

Hi there ebay user. You may remember me from a
previous transaction. Most likely a dvd purchase. This
sounds great!! take a look. Not interested then
discard of e-mail.
All the best.
Paul.

THE MAXIMUM MONEY YOU WILL SPEND IS JUST £3 & YOU ARE
NOT SENDING ANY OF THAT MONEY TO ME! HOWEVER, YOU
COULD MAKE A LOT MORE MONEY TO SPEND AS YOU WISH!

If you are still interested please read
on.........................

Now I am not promising that you are going to make
millions of £’s in 30 Days but the odds are
excellent that you'll see thousands of £'s, and your
total investment stays at just £3.

These are some of the emails 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 emails 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 to have been some kind of error!" -Richard
Barrie, Cirencester



I hope that you decide to go ahead with it. BUT - If
you decide that this isn't for you thanks for reading
anyway. Remember you can always pass it on even if you
don't wish to do it yourself.

So what do you do ?



VERY SIMPLE 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.

The current list is:

1.  ***********@****.com (make £3.00 payment to this
person)

2.  ********@*******.com

3.  ************8@********8.com

4.  ***********@***.co.uk

5.  **************@******.co.uk

Now all you need to do is¦

a) Copy and paste this page into your email program.

b) Make any necessary changes (to personalise it).

c) Remove the email address from the number 1 spot and
move all the others up a space.

d) Insert YOUR email address in the number 5 spot.

e) Then send this email to as many people as you can,
a good way is to send it to all the people in your
paypal history. In no time at all, you should have
reached the number 1 spot and the Money will start
coming to YOUR Paypal account. You can get all your
past contact email addresses through your paypal
account history



HERE'S HOW & WHY 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 who 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 only 12.5%! If you send
out your 40 emails, 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 No1 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 begin 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.



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.



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,
but everyone in the list will rise to that Number 1
position as thousands of emails are being sent out. No
cheating can occur as Paypal only allows one account
per person because it is so easy, the response rate is
VERY HIGH and VERY FAST and you will start seeing
dramatic results in less than one week!



You can download your paypal history as a Microsoft
Excel file, this is a great way to quickly access all
your stored email address's from your paypal
transactions.



Best wishes and the best of luck!

REMEMBER, NOTHING VENTURED NOTHING GAINED

I have starred out the email addresses in case anyone thinks I am condoning this!

If this really is legal in paypal's eyes then I just despair EARRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHH
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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2005, 09:39:41 PM »

I highly doubt that it is condoned by Paypal... 99% sure its scam by the person who created this and using the Paypal name to enhance their authenticity Hopping Mad
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« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2005, 10:03:16 PM »

I would forward that email straightaway to the spoof@paypal.com address and let them take care of it Roz. Undecided
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« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2005, 10:18:53 PM »

Absolutely.  I don't think Paypal wants it's members to be sent spam.  Especially a stupid piramid scheme.
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« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2005, 10:25:49 PM »

Heh yeah, Jules that's exactly what I did when I got it - can you believe the cheek of it? I suppose this is easier to spot than all those rather convincing emails from paypal inviting you to log in and update your details, after all the only thing that informs you it's a spoof is when you hover your mouse over the link they provide and it's a decidedly dodgy URL, and even then they can be very subtlely wrong.
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« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2005, 07:14:18 AM »

Heh yeah, Jules that's exactly what I did when I got it - can you believe the cheek of it? I suppose this is easier to spot than all those rather convincing emails from paypal inviting you to log in and update your details, after all the only thing that informs you it's a spoof is when you hover your mouse over the link they provide and it's a decidedly dodgy URL, and even then they can be very subtlely wrong.

I have had this type of email but it looks like an ebay page. It asks you to update your details...when I was first using ebay I was stupid enough to do it and the next day I couldn't get into my account!! I emailed ebay immediately and it turns out someone was using my account to bid for items. They had changed my password so I couldnt get into my account, and they had even changed the contact email address. Luckily ebay fixed it in a couple of hours and everything was returned to normal, although they cleared out all the items I was watching. Lucky for me I think...but I have never been that stupid again to update any details...

As for this other email...it is a total scam, I have been sent things like this with the same scenario, but it was a 'send a US$1 bill to the first address listed and add your name to the bottom' or something like that...I never bothered cause it seems like a waste of money and time...plus with this one you are giving out your paypal address to a bunch of strangers!
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Brilliant Snape.... once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!!
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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2005, 04:16:08 PM »

This is odd! I've had an email from "paypal" (allegedly) telling me I've got a chargeback (something people do if they don't receive their item.. .but normally I should expect they would email you first to say your item hasn't arrived with them.

Anyway, I log into paypal and there's nothing there, I look in disputes and there are no disputes on my account... how random is that? I guess it must have been sent to me in error, but because they don't give me any reference number (ebay item, paypal payment info) etc, I  can't even email a buyer to double check what's going on....

a tad worrying!

Thankfully I ALWAYS get proof of posting, and insurance so even if there's a problem everything's covered, but it's just very weird.
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« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2005, 03:26:42 AM »

hmmm well I'm glad you've checked your account to be sure nothing untoward has happened Mark - you just can't be too careful these days.
Did you think to forward the email to spoof@paypal.com and let them confirm it's a spoof email and then delete it?
I've lost count of the number of supposed emails I've received from paypal and ebay telling me whatever ... I automatically forward them to appropriate place and then consign them to the rubbsh bin - best place for them in my opinion. Wink
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« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2005, 04:43:36 AM »

Two words - ebay toolbar

Free to download and very helpful. It will tell you if you are putting your ebay/paypal passwork into a site which isn't theres like you get from the spoofs. Very helpful indeed.
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« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2005, 11:19:22 AM »

 Hopping Mad I have had an e-mail just recently that said I owed e-bay  Ebay! fees and that my account would be closed if i didnt pay now. It had a link to pay by paypal and to also change my password for my account!! Hopping Mad I didnt go for it Angry but it sure looked real enough. These guys are getting better at ripping people off.! Sad I reporting to e-bay and I was notified that they took care of the scam! Grin
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