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Lard Tunderin' Jeezus
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posted 10 November 2005 11:37 AM      Profile for Lard Tunderin' Jeezus   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
WTF is this about?
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Boom Boom
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posted 10 November 2005 11:50 AM      Profile for Boom Boom     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I want mine! It'll help with the mortgage.
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cogito ergo sum
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posted 10 November 2005 12:32 PM      Profile for cogito ergo sum     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It looks like an empty internet promise designed to lure you into subscribing (i.e. paying) for that damn newsletter. Forget you ever found it and continue on your merry way.
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Reality. Bites.
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posted 10 November 2005 12:35 PM      Profile for Reality. Bites.        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Why are my Canadian government royalty cheques issued on a bank in Nigeria?
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Cartman
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posted 10 November 2005 02:10 PM      Profile for Cartman        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I am so sick and tired of getting these scam emails. I made the mistake of allowing one of my email addresses to be on a public US academic list and I really regret that move. How many people really fall for these scams?
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Albireo
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posted 10 November 2005 02:24 PM      Profile for Albireo     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I like how it starts out: "Canada's Government giveaways are even written into the country's constitution", and citing a mention of "equalization payments". If only I could personally pose as an underpriviledged province.

Apparently this fancy Canadian "Canadian Royalty Checks" program is actually "income trusts", the subject of some current controversy. It is amusing how they equate this with social programs. [Well it IS just like a social program, except that the recipients are wealthy investors, and the money is siphoned off from companies, instead of from tax revenues.]

Here's Globe and Mail business article about the letter, and income trusts.

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Makwa
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posted 10 November 2005 02:47 PM      Profile for Makwa   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Cartman:
I made the mistake of allowing one of my email addresses to be on a public US academic list and I really regret that move.
At least you're not getting hundreds of emails for viagra, intenet dates and penis enlargers, like I am. Of course, if I weren't getting this spam, I wouldn't get any emails at all. So I guess it's not so bad. Never mind.
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