Anyone here heard of the Paypal get rich quick scheme

[DodgeChargerNeeded]

I heard about some kind of Paypal get rich quick scheme where you send out $6 and get added to mailing lists and newsgroups etc and get thousands of dollars sent to your paypal account. Of course it sounds too good to be true. Anyone heard of it or even tried it? Just curious

[dodge freak]

No I haven't but I give you my pal pay link if you like to send me some cash.

Honestly , I have seen some e-mails that say you order a i-pod for $250 and we are mailing it out soon if this is not right click here. Then they ask for your pay pal # -so they can rip you off.

[dkn1997]

sounds good, but I usually like to get taken out to dinner before I get F'd!!!

[PocketThunder]

sounds like the old tried and true money pyramid scam.

[Drache]

sounds good, but I usually like to get taken out to dinner before I get F'd!!!

[kakitayuri]

sounds like the old tried and true money pyramid scam.

Bingo Bongo! That's about the jest of it, but of course it's total BS. For one, how hard would it be just to have a group of friends make several accounts and do this? And for two, how likely are people really just to send you free money . . .

*sigh* I mean, atleast before the net, street peddlers had talent in what they did (no matter how cruel and unkind), and offered SOME sort of ware for your money, instead of just asking you to throw it around without any solid reason, heh.

[OttawaCharger]

when in doubt:
http://www.snopes.com/ is always a good place to research this kind of email.   

[262chargers]

sounds good, but I usually like to get taken out to dinner before I get F'd!!!

I'll pick you up at 8? 

[ChargerRob]

sounds good, but I usually like to get taken out to dinner before I get F'd!!!

I'll pick you up at 8? 

[Chargen69]

If it is true then it's just a new way of doing something that's old, and iilegal.  They busted several people for starting that in my area a while back.  I never did it, but several people i used to work with got several hundred dollars out of it before the cops got involved and shut it down.

The thing to remember with that and any other pyramid thing (legal or not) somebody's always on the bottom   

[Mike DC]

 
You're supposed to send someone money, so that several others will later send you money in the same way? 
It's a pyramid-scam ripoff every time. 

In past generations it was called a "chain letter" that you would get sent through the regular mail.  Now it's a Paypal thing online, but it's still the same time-honored scam it always has been.