Money-making ideas for Igor Chudov

17 Dec 2003

      So now we know who's responsible for the "anonymous" spam to this mailing list,
such as the obscene ASCII art and for calling Matt Blaze a "homosexual Jew"...

"Igor 'FUCK MNE HARDER' Chudov @ home" <ichudov@algebra.com> writes:
...
manifold::~==>premail -t cypherpunks@toad.com
Chain: haystack;jam
Subject: I urgently need a lot of money.
Please share your money-making secrets, I am in a desperate need
for cash.
A very old scheme, which a lot of Americans still fall for, can be modernized
using anonymous remailers (with a reply block) and anonymous digital cash.

Here's the outline: Igor Chudov posts an article via an anonymous remailer
saying: "Contact this (untraceable) e-mail address to learn how you can make
thousands of digital dollars a week just by sending e-mail." If he distributes
it widely enough, quite a few suckers will send for more information.

Igor will then send each sucker another e-mail giving little information and
requesting, say, $5 in untraceable digital cash for an information packet.

Those suckers who manage to send Igor the $5 get the third e-mail, explaining
how to use the anonymous remailers and untraceable digital cash to sucker
others into paying them $5 for the same information package.

Here's a recent Usenet article describing a similar scheme, using newspaper
ads and snail mail.

]Path: ...!news.rns.net!flint.sentex.net!usenet
]From: msabbagh@sentex.net
]Newsgroups: ab.jobs,atl.jobs,aus.ads.jobs,austin.jobs,az.jobs,ba.jobs,ba.jobs.misc,bc.jobs,bln.jobs,can.jobs,chi.jobs,cmh.jobs,co.jobs,dc.jobs,dfw.jobs,dk.jobs,fl.jobs,il.jobs.misc,in.jobs,kw.jobs,la.jobs,li.jobs,mi.jobs,misc.jobs,misc.jobs.misc,nb.jobs,ne.jobs,ont.jobs,ott.jobs,stl.jobs,su.jobs,tor.jobs,tx.jobs,uk.jobs.d,us.jobs,us.jobs.misc,ut.jobs,za.ads.jobs,alt.jobs,io.jobs,eunet.jobs,b
]Subject: Everybody please  please read this!
]Message-ID: <32828546.724E@sentex.net>
]Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 16:56:38 -0800
]References: <3281e88b.115644218@news2.compulink.com>
]Reply-To: msabbagh@sentex.net
]Organization: sentex.net
]Lines: 57
]NNTP-Posting-Host: p7.radium.sentex.ca
]Mime-Version: 1.0
]Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
]Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
]
]Homeworkers wrote:
]>
]> Join the over 25,       000,000 people world-wide already working from
]> home.   Free details!
]>
]> In Canada, send self-addressed stamped envelope.   Outside Canada,
]> send name and address plus $2 in US funds for shipping and handling.
]>
]> Mail To:                Work-at-Home
]>                 600 Thornton Road North, Suite 408
]>                 Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
]>                 L1J 6T6
]
]
]"When are you guys going to stop these gimmicks!?"
]
]At the begining of this year (1996) I came to Canada as an immegrant. Of
]course, the first step was to look for job. I went through all possible
]sources of information at Toronto: "Employment News" "Toronto Classified
]Address"....etc. Always, I was facing this type of attractive ads. to
]work from home and earn $1000 / week.
]
]As a newcomer I did not know what was going on, and I needed desperately
]an income (honest income) to feed myself and small family.
]
]I decided to try one of these ads. it was "Northern Communications
]Enterprise", Toronto, the name looked to me as a very large Corporation;
]since I was a newcomer and I have no idea about the real companies.
]
]I mailed a self addressed stamped envalope as requested; I receieve in
]return one tricky page article; asking me at the end to send a cheque
]with C$35 to send me the "Magical" information to earn $1000/week;
]unforetunatly, I did so!.
]
]After couple of weeks, I received a booklet of 30 pages (all junke and
]empty circle information) it ends teaching you that what you have to do
]is to paste or advertise simillar ads. to the one I read at the first
]time "Earn $1000/week from home by stuffing envalopes", in deffrent type
]of media (newspaper, internet, flyer....etc) and do the same trick by
]photocopying their valueless booklet and mail it to the person who paid
]me C$35.
]
]Of course, I didn't agree, not because I can not do it, but, because I
]refused to be a part of this illegal and immoral way of earning mony!.
]
]What concerns me, that how can reputable newspapers, and papers like
]"Employment news" justify their advertisement to such tricky and
]imaginary "Enterprises"  just for few dollars. These papers are supposed
]to be directed to people like me who was a serious individual and
]desperately looking for a job, and needed each Penny of his mony to
]establish himself at his new country!.
]
]"Please do not be victim to these types of ads."
]
]Regards to all.
]
]Mason.

"Credibility is expendable." -John Gilmore

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Money-making ideas for Igor Chudov

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