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| Support: Security: PC Sentry: Make Money Fast | |||||
| name: Make Money
Fast type: Hoax host platform: All first incidence: 06/15/95 last incidence: 07/01/00 level of incidence: Low damage capacity: None links: U/A look for: Any message claiming great money making schemes.
Launched in 1987
or 1988, the Make Money Fast message - sometimes distributed on electronic
bulletin boards (BBSes) as a file named fastcash.txt
- is an electronic version of a chain letter pyramid scheme. You are promised
tens of thousands of dollars provided you send money (typically a dollar or
two) to the five to ten people on the list. You are instructed then to add
your name to the top of the list, remove the bottom name, and repost/forward
the chain letter, which incidentally is federal wire fraud. |
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