[copied to cypherpunks for info/reference] In message <200102162116_MC2-C5CD-8CC2@compuserve.com>, larry drewyor <BDREWYOR@compuserve.com> wrote to cypherpunks@toad.com:

I was wondering about the envelope system if i send the order form and money you will send me the envelopes with papers i need to fill them with ?

1. cypherpunks@toad.com is a mail discussion list, not a person and definitely not a person offering money for stuffing envelopes. 2. (Nearly?) All offers of money for stuffing envelopes are lies. Anybody with a scheme that really made money from stuffing envelopes they would buy machinery to do the job. Even the smallest business can afford a simple machine that folds letters to the right size! 3. Most advertised schemes work like this: a. somebody makes adverts for people to make money stuffing envelopes, for a fee b. somebody else replies, paying the fee. c. the first person stuffs *one* envelope, with instructions on how to write the original adverts, sent to the second person. Only people who are poor and desperate for money respond to these adverts. Having paid the fee such people then have to choose to: try to get their money back; try to make their money back by joining the scam, often needing to spend more money on adverts themselves; or just decide that the money they spent is lost. Anybody who offers a job but requires you to give them money should be treated with great suspicion! Regards. -- Anthony Naggs