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Does the oprah money making method work?


there is this method that u give a dollar to six people and then u post ur email and the same instructions on the internet and then u start getting dollar payments too does this work help me plz

There is no Oprah money making method, scammers have used her name and others to get people interested in what is a plain old chain letter scheme. Chain letters used to be sent via regular mail, now with the internet, they are often sent electronically. Problem is - chain letters schemes are illegal.

Here's an article on chain letters from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

The Lowdown on Chain Letters
Everybody's received them - chain letters or email messages that promise a big return on a small investment. The promises include unprecedented good luck, mountains of recipes, or worse, huge financial rewards for sending as little as $5 to someone on a list or making a telephone call. The simplest chain letters contain a list of names and addresses, with instructions to send something - usually a small sum of money - to the person at the top of the list, remove that name from the list, and add your own name to the bottom of the list. Then, the instructions call for you to mail or email copies of the letter to a certain number of other people, along with the directions of how they should "continue the chain." The theory behind chain letters is that by the time your name gets to the top of the list, so many people will be involved that you'll be inundated with whatever the chain promises to deliver. One recently circulated email chain letter promised earnings of "$50,000 or more within in the next 90 days of sending email." Whether you receive a chain letter by regular mail or email - especially one that involves money - the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reminds you that:

Chain letters that involve money or valuable items and promise big returns are illegal. If you start one or send one on, you are breaking the law.

Chances are you will receive little or no money back on your "investment." Despite the claims, a chain letter will never make you rich.

Some chain letters try to win your confidence by claiming that they're legal, and even that they're endorsed by the government. Nothing is further from the truth.

If you've been a target of a chain email scam, contact your Internet Service Provider and forward the email to the FTC at spam@uce.gov.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service offers information about chain letters at www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect . Or you can call the Postal Inspection Service toll-free, 1-888-877-7644

The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint or to get free information on consumer issues, visit ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

not sure.

No!
You may get one or two dollars and thats all, just because people tend to put all those emails their own pretending they are other people's...

This is an ILLEGAL PONZI scheme and was *never* featured on Oprah.

If you participate and get caught, you can be arrested unless you refund all of the people who gave you money.

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