On 19 Aug 2005 23:38:22 -0700, wrote:

"AS SEEN ON OPRAH"
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I do seem to remember something on Oprah about pyramid schemes - it
was about a woman who had lost mucho bucks in one. Maybe it was the
"women empowering women" scam that has popped up in a number of
countries.

Paypal seems to think your chain letter is an illegal scam.

http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...&ed=rich_quick

Pyramid Schemes
Pyramid schemes, including Gifting Clubs and Ponzi schemes, involve
the exchange of money in relation to the process of enrolling other
people into the scheme. PayPal includes in its definition of "pyramid
schemes" any system in which a hierarchy is created by people joining
under others who joined previously, and in which those who join make
payments to those above them in the hierarchy ("upline"). Pyramid
schemes are prohibited as a form of investment fraud by federal laws
and by the laws of each of the fifty individual states. PayPal
considers online payment randomizers to be a type of pyramid scheme
because the majority of commissions are paid for recruitment of new
members, and typically operate by random placement within the program.