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Easy way to make money on ebay - email received!
MimiJane
Posts: 7,989 Forumite
I've received the following email from someone I've dealt with on ebay in the past through PayPal. I'm tempted to try this for £3, but am concerned about the legal implications and PayPal cottoning on to this (though I don't really see how they could do anything about it!). Any thoughts anyone? Anyone else received this email and tried it out? Is it worth a go??
As we did business on ebay in the past, I thought you might be interested in this money making opportunity.
This e-mail is going round paypal and ebay users and it seems to be working. This is totally legal and does actually work!!!!!!!!
Please do not delete this before reading it in full - it is not a scam and is not junk mail! Please note from my eBay feedback that I am a genuine ebayer and a real genuine person hoping to earn some cash.
Yes, you like me have no doubt had this idea put forward before, but not in connection with 78 million Paypal accounts. Paypal have also admitted that this is legal and trading standards are not aware of any problem.
The person who sent me the email has already started benefiting from the plan. All it involves is a one off initial payment of £3.00 and approximately 20 minutes of your time. These are some of the e-mails and proof that I came across which finally made me decide that I wanted to try
this.
"What an amazing plan. I followed the instructions just 3 weeks ago, and although I haven't made 10 grand yet, I am already up to £6,135. Am absolutely gob smacked" - AF, Leicester
"Well, what can I say? I sent out 40 e-mail's like the plan said then just forgot about the whole thing. To be honest, I didn't really think anything would come of it, but I checked my Paypal account a week later and there was over £3000.00 in it! After 30 days I now have over £11,000 to spend"
LD, Northampton
"I was shocked when I saw how much money came flooding into my Paypal account. Within 3 weeks my account balance has ballooned to £7,449. At
first I thought there had been some kind of error!"
RB
Cirencester
Like you I was very sceptical when I first read this e-mail, nearly deleted it but then I thought about it & decided to give it a go! Some people spend more than £3 per week on the lottery, so what's a one-off payment of £3 going to matter? I've got my fingers crossed that I'll have some extra spending money in my paypal account very soon.
Here's wishing good luck & fortune to you all.
The problem with these type of schemes is that usually they run out of people to pass on to but with 78 million users and more, how likely is that? Plus, they usually require high investment - this doesn't.
If you are eager like I am by this stage, then read the instructions outlined below, taken from the original email. It is really easy to do - then you can just sit back and wait for thosepayments to go into your paypal account.
INSTRUCTIONS
The first thing you need to do is send a £3.00 payment from your Paypal account to the FIRST email address in the list below, along with a note saying 'PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR LIST." You will also have to select a Subject; 'Service' or 'Goods other' should be fine. Instructions on how to send a payment are under "SEND MONEY" at the Paypal site. It is very easy.
The current list is:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Copy and paste this page (and make any necessary changes) Remove the email address that you have paid from the number 1 spot, move all the others up
a space, and insert your own email address in the number 5 spot Then send the page to as many people as you can. A good way is to send it to all the people in your paypal history.
(GO TO HISTORY TAB ON PAYPAL AND THEN 'DOWNLOAD HISTORY' FOR COMPLETE LIST OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TRADED WITH) or over view account
ALL I WOULD LIKE TO DO NOW IS WISH YOU GOOD LUCK. IF YOU ARE STILL UNSURE OR EVEN IF YOU WOULD JUST LIKE TO KNOW HOW THIS WORKS PLEASE READ
ON.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
When you send out your email, your email address will initially be at No 5 on the list. That is the best position that you can be in if you want to earn serious money. The response rate for this program is much higher than any typical email marketing campaign for a number of reasons, which are explained later on.
As long as you send out your mails to people whom are likely to be interested in this program, then on average you can expect a response of around 25%. But let's be extremely conservative and assume that the average response rate is 12.5%! If you send out your 40 mails, you can expect at least 5 of those people to do exactly what you did (12.5% of 40 = 5 people). By the time your email address will have moved up to No 4 in the list, and this list will now have reached around 200 people (5 people x 40 mails = 200 people).
Out of those 200 people, you can expect at least 25 of them to participate (12.5% of 200 = 25 people) so you are now reaching around 1000 people (25 people x 40 mails = 1000) and you are now at No 3 on the list.
Out of those 1000 people, you can expect at least 125 of them to participate (12.5% of 1000 = 125 people) so you are now reaching around 5000 people (125 people x 40 mails = 5000) and you are now at No 2 on the list.
Out of those 5000 people, you can expect at least 625 of them to participate (12.5% of 5000 = 625 people) so you are now reaching around 25000 people (625 people x 40 mails = 25000) and you are now at No 1 on the list.
Out of 25000 people, you can expect at least 3125 of them to participate (12.5% of 25000 = 3125 people) so since you are at the No 1 spot you can expect to receive around about? 9,375 (3125 people x 3.00 =9,375)
So when your name hits the No 1 spot, it will be YOUR turn to collect the money. Over the course of 30 days, this money will be sent to you by a few thousand people just like yourself, who are willing to invest £3.00 and 20 minutes of their time to receive around £10,000 or more in cash.
The first payments will arrive within a few days and then they will continue at the rate of about 100 payments per day for about 30 days (obviously this will depend on how quickly you act and how quickly people take you up on this offer and then pass it on).
After that time, the volume of payments begins to taper off as your email is removed from the No 1 position. That's all you need to do! There will be around £10,000 in £3.00 payments waiting for you in your Paypal account within the next few weeks. £10,000 for just 30 minutes work! This is real money that you can spend on anything you wish! Just deposit it to your own bank account or spend it directly from your Paypal account!
It's just that easy! I think it's WORTH IT, don't you?
Remember, the 12.5% example above is assuming that 35 out of the 40 people you send your email to will do absolutely nothing except delete your email. However, if you follow the plan correctly and send your e-mail's only to people who are likely to want to participate, you can expect a typical response-rate of around 25%. Hence, the 12.5% example is only given as a worst-case-scenario.
Additionally, the above example assumes that each participant will only send out 40 e-mail's. Imagine what would happen if each participant sent out 1,000 e mail's instead of just 40! Believe me; many people will do this and much more!
Unlike many other MLM programs, this 5-LEVEL PROGRAM costs you only £3.00 which is much more realistic and provides much, much faster results. Only the first person on the list gets your £3.00 gift, but everyone in the list will rise to that Number 1 position as thousands of e-mail's are being sent out. No cheating can occur (don't be fooled by claims that this system can be cheated) as Paypal only allows one account per person. Because it is so easy, the response rate is VERY HIGH and VERY FAST Internet email FAST, and you will start seeing dramatic results in less than one week!
Thank you and good luck in your ventures.
Kind regards, and I sincerely hope we all make a bundle out of this.
p.s. Go in your paypal history and go into the details on each person you have dealt with, highlight the email with your left mouse button then right click on the mouse and click copy, bring ms word for example from your task bar and right click again on your mouse the click on paste, do this for as many e-mails you want but make sure you put a comma between each and every email and then copy and paste to your email address bar.
I KNOW IT' S A LOT OF MESSING ABOUT TO DO THIS BUT ITS WORTH IT IN
THE END WHEN YOUR MONEY STARTS TO COME IN,
As we did business on ebay in the past, I thought you might be interested in this money making opportunity.
This e-mail is going round paypal and ebay users and it seems to be working. This is totally legal and does actually work!!!!!!!!
Please do not delete this before reading it in full - it is not a scam and is not junk mail! Please note from my eBay feedback that I am a genuine ebayer and a real genuine person hoping to earn some cash.
Yes, you like me have no doubt had this idea put forward before, but not in connection with 78 million Paypal accounts. Paypal have also admitted that this is legal and trading standards are not aware of any problem.
The person who sent me the email has already started benefiting from the plan. All it involves is a one off initial payment of £3.00 and approximately 20 minutes of your time. These are some of the e-mails and proof that I came across which finally made me decide that I wanted to try
this.
"What an amazing plan. I followed the instructions just 3 weeks ago, and although I haven't made 10 grand yet, I am already up to £6,135. Am absolutely gob smacked" - AF, Leicester
"Well, what can I say? I sent out 40 e-mail's like the plan said then just forgot about the whole thing. To be honest, I didn't really think anything would come of it, but I checked my Paypal account a week later and there was over £3000.00 in it! After 30 days I now have over £11,000 to spend"
LD, Northampton
"I was shocked when I saw how much money came flooding into my Paypal account. Within 3 weeks my account balance has ballooned to £7,449. At
first I thought there had been some kind of error!"
RB
Cirencester
Like you I was very sceptical when I first read this e-mail, nearly deleted it but then I thought about it & decided to give it a go! Some people spend more than £3 per week on the lottery, so what's a one-off payment of £3 going to matter? I've got my fingers crossed that I'll have some extra spending money in my paypal account very soon.
Here's wishing good luck & fortune to you all.
The problem with these type of schemes is that usually they run out of people to pass on to but with 78 million users and more, how likely is that? Plus, they usually require high investment - this doesn't.
If you are eager like I am by this stage, then read the instructions outlined below, taken from the original email. It is really easy to do - then you can just sit back and wait for thosepayments to go into your paypal account.
INSTRUCTIONS
The first thing you need to do is send a £3.00 payment from your Paypal account to the FIRST email address in the list below, along with a note saying 'PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR LIST." You will also have to select a Subject; 'Service' or 'Goods other' should be fine. Instructions on how to send a payment are under "SEND MONEY" at the Paypal site. It is very easy.
The current list is:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Copy and paste this page (and make any necessary changes) Remove the email address that you have paid from the number 1 spot, move all the others up
a space, and insert your own email address in the number 5 spot Then send the page to as many people as you can. A good way is to send it to all the people in your paypal history.
(GO TO HISTORY TAB ON PAYPAL AND THEN 'DOWNLOAD HISTORY' FOR COMPLETE LIST OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE TRADED WITH) or over view account
ALL I WOULD LIKE TO DO NOW IS WISH YOU GOOD LUCK. IF YOU ARE STILL UNSURE OR EVEN IF YOU WOULD JUST LIKE TO KNOW HOW THIS WORKS PLEASE READ
ON.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
When you send out your email, your email address will initially be at No 5 on the list. That is the best position that you can be in if you want to earn serious money. The response rate for this program is much higher than any typical email marketing campaign for a number of reasons, which are explained later on.
As long as you send out your mails to people whom are likely to be interested in this program, then on average you can expect a response of around 25%. But let's be extremely conservative and assume that the average response rate is 12.5%! If you send out your 40 mails, you can expect at least 5 of those people to do exactly what you did (12.5% of 40 = 5 people). By the time your email address will have moved up to No 4 in the list, and this list will now have reached around 200 people (5 people x 40 mails = 200 people).
Out of those 200 people, you can expect at least 25 of them to participate (12.5% of 200 = 25 people) so you are now reaching around 1000 people (25 people x 40 mails = 1000) and you are now at No 3 on the list.
Out of those 1000 people, you can expect at least 125 of them to participate (12.5% of 1000 = 125 people) so you are now reaching around 5000 people (125 people x 40 mails = 5000) and you are now at No 2 on the list.
Out of those 5000 people, you can expect at least 625 of them to participate (12.5% of 5000 = 625 people) so you are now reaching around 25000 people (625 people x 40 mails = 25000) and you are now at No 1 on the list.
Out of 25000 people, you can expect at least 3125 of them to participate (12.5% of 25000 = 3125 people) so since you are at the No 1 spot you can expect to receive around about? 9,375 (3125 people x 3.00 =9,375)
So when your name hits the No 1 spot, it will be YOUR turn to collect the money. Over the course of 30 days, this money will be sent to you by a few thousand people just like yourself, who are willing to invest £3.00 and 20 minutes of their time to receive around £10,000 or more in cash.
The first payments will arrive within a few days and then they will continue at the rate of about 100 payments per day for about 30 days (obviously this will depend on how quickly you act and how quickly people take you up on this offer and then pass it on).
After that time, the volume of payments begins to taper off as your email is removed from the No 1 position. That's all you need to do! There will be around £10,000 in £3.00 payments waiting for you in your Paypal account within the next few weeks. £10,000 for just 30 minutes work! This is real money that you can spend on anything you wish! Just deposit it to your own bank account or spend it directly from your Paypal account!
It's just that easy! I think it's WORTH IT, don't you?
Remember, the 12.5% example above is assuming that 35 out of the 40 people you send your email to will do absolutely nothing except delete your email. However, if you follow the plan correctly and send your e-mail's only to people who are likely to want to participate, you can expect a typical response-rate of around 25%. Hence, the 12.5% example is only given as a worst-case-scenario.
Additionally, the above example assumes that each participant will only send out 40 e-mail's. Imagine what would happen if each participant sent out 1,000 e mail's instead of just 40! Believe me; many people will do this and much more!
Unlike many other MLM programs, this 5-LEVEL PROGRAM costs you only £3.00 which is much more realistic and provides much, much faster results. Only the first person on the list gets your £3.00 gift, but everyone in the list will rise to that Number 1 position as thousands of e-mail's are being sent out. No cheating can occur (don't be fooled by claims that this system can be cheated) as Paypal only allows one account per person. Because it is so easy, the response rate is VERY HIGH and VERY FAST Internet email FAST, and you will start seeing dramatic results in less than one week!
Thank you and good luck in your ventures.
Kind regards, and I sincerely hope we all make a bundle out of this.
p.s. Go in your paypal history and go into the details on each person you have dealt with, highlight the email with your left mouse button then right click on the mouse and click copy, bring ms word for example from your task bar and right click again on your mouse the click on paste, do this for as many e-mails you want but make sure you put a comma between each and every email and then copy and paste to your email address bar.
I KNOW IT' S A LOT OF MESSING ABOUT TO DO THIS BUT ITS WORTH IT IN
THE END WHEN YOUR MONEY STARTS TO COME IN,
Wins since 2009 = £17,600
MANY THANKS TO ALL OPS
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SCAM
gets posted on here loads on time but is always deletedEx forum ambassador
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Hi MimiJane. The email you received is spam and it is strictly against ebay and paypal rules so you can either report it to ebay and paypal with full headers or just delete it. If I have time I usually report the sender to their ISP as well, especially if that ISP has strict spam rules.
These schemes do not work they just annoy people, so ignore it.
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SPAM Had that email Plenty of times ... :mad:0
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you won't - it's a scam. this scam has been posted in numerous chat rooms and on mse in most forums. just wish people would give up.Kind regards, and I sincerely hope we all make a bundle out of this.0 -
It's the same illegal pyramid scheme that has been around for decades in one form or another updated for today's technology0
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THis will never never work - most people who give it a go think they will send off the emails first then make the payment if they get any money coming in - result - no-one ever gets anything - just as well as this needs to be put to death once and for all.£2 saver club £16 so far!! - it's growing!!! :j
#3 in the £30 k in 2 years on e-bay club :T
Olympic Challenge - target £30000
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