Money chain letter.  "Make $25,000.00 in Weeks!"  Send $1 to each of six names. Quota 200. Online lists. US, 2014.  Comment by DWV. 
MAKE $25,000.00 IN WEEKS!

AS SEEN ON OPRAH AND 20/20

Oprah Winfrey and ABC's Investigative Team 20/20 proved it can be done.

IF A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD COULD MAKE $471,000.00 IN FIVE WEEKS AND

OTHERS $250,000.00 AND MORE IN A FEW WEEKS, SO CAN YOU!

I have received the following information and if you take the time to read this,

I believe it will be very beneficial to you.

Greeting! I am a retired Attorney. Approximately two years ago, a man came to me with
a letter similar to this one. He ask me to verify that letter was legal. I told him I would
review it and get back to him. When I first read the letter that he had originally brought
me, it was not 100% legal. I advised him to make a few small changes to the letter so that
it would be.

I was still curious about the letter, so he proceeded to explain to me how it works. I
thought it was a long shot and decided against participating at this time. However, before
my client left, I ask him to keep me updated on his results. About two months, he called
me that he had received $800,000.00 in cash. I did not believe him, so he suggested that
I try his idea and see for myself. I thought about if for a couple of days and decided that
I didn't have anything to lose, so I asked him for a copy of this letter. I followed the
Instructions exactly, mailed 200 copies and sure enough the money started arriving in the
mail. It came slowly art first, but after three weeks, I was getting more than I could open
in a day. AFTER ABOUT THREE MONTHS, THE MONEY STOPPED COMING IN.
I KEPT A PRECISE RECORD OF MY EARNINGS AND AT THE END IT TOTALED
$986,493.00!!

I was earning a good living as an Attorney. However, as anyone in the legal profession
will tell you, there is a lot of stress that comes with the job! I told myself that if things
work out, I would retire from my practice and play golf. I decided to try the letter again,
but this time I sent out 500 letters.  We, three months later, my income totaled
$2,344,178.00! Can you believe it?

I could hardly believe it myself! But after talking with my old friend over lunch, we
realize what made the difference from all other letters, the fact that there were names on the
the list.
IT'S PEPOLE HELPING PEPOLE!
I'll assume that by now you are curious to know what little change I told him to make.
We.., if you send a letter like this out, you must actually be selling something if you
expect to receive a dollar. I told him that anyone sending a dollar must include these
words on the letter:
"PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST!"
This is the key to the program. Fort the dollar you send to the six names listed in the letter
You request to be put on a mailing list and then you hve the right to receive thousands of
dollars.

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FOLLOW THE RULES AS LISTED BELOW EXACTLY and in less than three months you should receive over
 $500,000.-- in cash. Just give it a try and see for yourself!

This program works perfectly! I have never failed to make less than $500,000.00 on each mailing that I have
sent out. This is a legitimate home business opportunity and a perfectly legal money generating program. It
does not require you to sell anything or come into personal contact with anyone. You do not have to attend
monthly motivational meetings. Best of all, the only time you have to leave home, is to mail out the letters.
This can be done on your way to the grocery store.

 1)  Immediately send $1.00 to each of the sex names listed on page 3 and request that your name be added

       to their mailing list. It is this step that makes the program legal.
 2)  Purchase a mailing list of Opportunity Seekers from *** Lists on line at ********.com.
      They sell a list of 200 Names for $55.00 (500/$80.00 and 1000/$120.00). The great part is that the
      names will come on self-adhesive labels that peel off and stick right on the envelopes This company
      accepts Mastercard and Visa to make it more convenient.
 3)  While waiting for the mailing list to arrive, remove the name from the number one position and move
       each name up one place. (2 becomes 1, 3 becomes 2, etc.)
 4)  Place your name in the sixth position. An easy way to do this is to retype or print the 6 names with
      yours on the 6th position on a separate sheet of paper and tape it over the area where the names
      appear on the page.
 5)  After completing the above instructions, photocopy 200 copies of this three page letter.
 6)  Place each of your 200 (500 on your next mailing for greater revenue) copies into your business size
      envelopes and seal them. Go to the Post Office and purchase 200 first class stamps and place them on
      the envelopes. The Post Office sells stamps in rolls of 100 that are self-adhesive.
 7)  Once your list arrives, place the self-adhesive labels on each envelope an drop them into the mailbox.
      Within 20 to 90 days, you will receive over $500,000.00 in CASH!!! Now, here is the interesting part,
      that is only a 7.5% response, which is very conservative. It is more likely to exceed than amount every
      time. The first time I participated, I kept a record of all my letters and the response rate was 9.5%.

THIS SYSTEM WAS MADE FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACCUMULATING CAPITAL FAST AND HONESTLY. ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS NOT AN ILLEGAL CHAIN LETTER, RATHER A PERFECTLY LEGAL MAIL ORDER BUSINESS. Refer to Title 18, Section 1302 and 1342 of the U.S. Postal and Lottery Laws. When you send copies of this letter and each responding individual sends 200 copies, your multiplying dollars become a rapid FORTUNE!

The following figures are an assumption, but at a conservative rate, assume for example yours is 7.5%

When you send out 200 letters, 15 people well send you $1.00                                                                                                  $15.00

Those 15 people will send out 200 letters, 225 people will send you $1.00                                                                                $225.00

225 people will send out 200 letters, 3375 people will send you $1.00                                                                                    $3,375.00

3375 people will send out 200 letters, 50,625 people will send you $1.00                                                                             $50,625.00

50,625 people will send out 200 letters, 759,375 people will send you $1.00                                                                       $759,375.00

                                                                                                       YOUR TOTAL                                                      $813,615.00

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At this point, your name is dropped from the list and you have received $813,615.00. It has worked every
time. On the above example, you started with 200 names and a 7.5% response rate. With these results,
you have to try!

I was actually skeptical because I hd received at least 35 letters similar to this one in a six month period. I
am sure that you have as well. There was; however, something about this one that I liked. It takes less
investment than MOST do and all participants receive money, not just the top ones. Anyway, I mailed out
200 letters and hoped for the best. Nothing happened for 11 days; on the 12th day, I received 90.00. Over
the next four weeks, I received over $800,000.00 in CASH through the mail. I am going to do it with 1000
letters next time! That should give me 75 letters at level one and a ridiculously large amount at level six!!!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

WE SO OFTEN INVEST IN LOTTERIES, ENTER SWEEPSTAKES, CLIP COUPONS, ETC__WE NEED TO INVEST IN EACH
OTHER. WE ARE OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER. AS AMERICANS, WE NEED TO HELP EACH OTHER, ANY WAY WE CAN.
MAYBE YOU DON'T NEED THE MONEY, SO DO IT FOR A FRIEND, A NEIGHBOR IN NEED, A COLLEGE STUDENT, YOUR
CHURCH, A CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION, OR ANYONE WHO COMES TO MIND. JUST BE SURE YOU DO IT!

Here are a few things I hve learned:

1) After you get your mailing list, mail out the letters while the list is still fresh.
2) When you handle a lot of letters, you may want to get an electric letter opener.
3) Be cool, keep your job until you get the cash, then, set goals.
   
STAY HONEST. DO NOT PROCRASTINATE. SEE HOW YOUR LIFE CAN CHANGE.

JUST DO THE MATH, IT REALLY WORKS! EVERY SINGLE TIME!!

GOD BLESS US AND DON'T FORGET WE ARE FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDS.

LET'S HELP EACH OTHER OUT!!!

PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST - THANK YOU
1.  Judy ********************* St Petersburg FL33703
2.  Ted ********************* Ooltewah  TN37363
3. John ********************* Harwich MA 02645
4. Billie ********************* Colorado Springs CO 80906
5. Angela ******************* Spring TX 77386
6. Richard ****************** Youngstown FL 32466


Photocopy of Word Processor generated letter.  First page has text on two sides, second page on one side. Different font for names and addresses. Above is an attempt to preserve keystrokes and format.  Letter postmarked in Pensacola FL on Aug. 7, 2014. Addressed by a self-adhesive label - to a woman in Lompoc, CA.  Return address written by hand, same as #6 name and address typed on letter. Sic: "verify that letter was legal", "I ask him to keep me informed", "PEPOLE" (twice), "Fort the dollar you send" for "For the dollar you send". Web page and last names and addresses obscured for privacy. Third page appears to be a later generation photocopy than first two pages, also font differs. Entered by DWV on Jan. 24, 2015.

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Comments by DWV.  1/24/2015

1. This money chain letter is very similar to a letter that was collected a few months prior to this one. See me2014-04-30_RetAttorney_n6sDx6q200 . As noted at this link, this letter goes back at least to a 2005 letter which reports that an attorney received the exact same amount, $2,344,178.00. It may be useful for the reader to examine the comments after the 2014-04 letter. Both the above and the 2014-04 letter gave the same web address to purchase a mailing list. On both letters I have obscured this, and also the last names and street addresses of prior participants.

2. Changes in the above text compared to the prior 2014-04 example include:
   (1) formatting, for example the prior letter used centering for the third page and had concluding text after the list of names
   (2) in the fourth line, "$71,000" has become "471,000.00",
   (3) in the second to last line on page 1, "you" has been incorrectly capitalized above to "You", confusing the text
   (4) the line "STILL NOT SURE ABOUT IT: JUST PRAY ABOUT IT" in the 2014-04 letter has been omitted above.

3. This letter claims: "It has worked every time" and that a 7.5% is a conservative estimate of the return rate. Consider that the attorney reports that from his second mailing of 500 copies he received $2,344,178 in cash. This is the exact same amount reported in the 2005 and  2014-04 letters, so we can presume this claim comes from the original author. This implies there were 2,344,178 active participants in 2005, who would have in turn sent out 200 (or more) copies each, a total of 2,344,178 x 200 = 468,835,600 copies mailed. The author repeatedly states that a 7.5% return rate can be expected from this letter.  But lets assume it is only 5%, and see how many letters would be generated. Then 468,835,600 x .05 = 23,441,780 people would have become active participants in the scheme. So they should have mailed out a minimum of 200 letters each. That is 23,441,780 x 200 = 4,688,356,000 letters. That is 4.6 billion letters, which is more than 14 copies for every man, woman and child in the United States (316.1 million in 2013). Note we have greatly under-estimated the total that would have been mailed in the last ten years if the claims in the letter were accurate.

4. Of course not any where near 4.6 billion copies have been mailed. This means that the numbers and return rates stated in the letter are fictional. But I suspect that enough have been mailed that most people who would be inclined to participate have already seen the letter, or one similar to it.