[LINK] email fraud story

[Howard Lowndes]

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 09:04, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> > From This Is True:
> >
> >The job offered ad for drivers to ferry topless dancers and
> >   "escorts" from job to job in Miami, Fla. attracted attention. The pay:
> >   $5,000 per week in cash plus "benefits".

Benefits != getting rooted
Benefits == getting screwed

>  Those who applied were asked
> >   to wire an $865 deposit, which they were told would be refunded after
> >   their first assignment. But no one was ever given any assignments,
> >   investigators say. Those who sent deposits were hit up again and again
> >   for "hidden job-related expenses"; one idiot sent $8,000 in total. In
> >   all, 43 applicants, male and female aged 19 to 78, sent an average of
> >   eight payments each. The alleged advertisers, Gary Janiak Jr., 34, and
> >   Tracy Silverstone, 22, have been charged with 333 counts of felony
> >   fraud. (Miami Herald)
> 
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