Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:07:48 -0500
From: "cporro" 
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
Subject: Re: i'm an uncle, ideas for investment gifts
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thanks breadwithspam. the tipoff on most of these Internet scams seems
to be the lack of pertinent detail.

BreadWithSpam@fractious.net wrote:
> "kalaivivek"  writes:
> > cporro wrote:
> > > i'm an uncle for the first time and wondering what i could get my new
> > > niece. i do all my own investing but my needs are different. here are
>
> > You may be interested in the link below, which gives good returns.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > http://www.swisscash.biz/IDENTIFIER_REMOVED
>
> Okay, if you're going to post links to a pyramid scheme/scam
> here in response to an honest request, you should at least
> explain to us how this scheme meets the needs of the original
> poster.
>
> Not only does this have nothing to do with Switzerland,
> nor with any actual mutual fund (contrary to what it says
> on that absurd web page), but the domain itself is owned
> by a scammer who lives in Florida, registered through a deep-
> discount registrar/host - and with a registration name and
> address tied to a PO Box on the Carribean Island of Dominica.
>
> I'm assuming this just slipped past the moderators (to whom
> I am always grateful for all the work they do here!) but
> as long as it has, we might as well make some use of it to
> warn folks about this scam.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks.  The rest gets trashed.
> No HTML in E-Mail! --    http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
> Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow?
>    http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting


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