psychoceramics: LOSE MONEY FAST!!

[Alan Olsen <alan @ ctrl-alt-del.com>]

This was written by an anonymous person and forwarded to the Cypherpunks
list by someone of irratable mein...  Great screedlike material.  Note
especially the capitializetion.  It almost smacks of McElwaine.


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>Subject: LOSE MONEY FAST!!
>Date: Tue, 24 Jun 97 21:51:32 -0700
>From: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <v--@n--.com>
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>not to encourage any paranoia or conspiracy theory, but 
>this is an interesting warning I saw on another mailing list that I thought
>I'd pass on---
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>From: xxxxx
>Date: Tue Jun 24 21:49:18 PDT 1997
>Subject: LOSE MONEY FAST!!
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>I am writing this to WARN THE PUBLIC of a very DIABOLICAL SCHEME that
>is RIGHT NOW playing out in the market and ingeniously designed to separate 
>GULLIBLE INVESTORS from their lawful returns. I cannot now reveal 
>exactly the name of the company involved, but I will identify it by the 
>initials "FRN". 
>
>FRN directors are involved in a complex STOCK MANIPULATION SCHEME
>in which they are selling additional shares of the company beyond
>those in circulation, with only the hazy knowledge of the existing
>stockholders. This is being done IN COLLUSION WITH GOVERNMENT
>REGULATORS, who are receiving kickbacks from the operation! In other words, 
>individual investors of FRN believe they own 1/n of the company, when in 
>fact there are more shares in existence and they actually own far less than 
>the fraction indicated on their certificates!
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>The additional shares are owned by directors of the company who
>are secretly releasing the FRAUDULENT SHARES on the market with PRECISE 
>TIMING, such that whenever the legitimate value of the company increases,
>they release new shares for sale at the current share price. The
>net effect is that market share prices creep up in value only marginally 
>while the directors effectively INCREASE THEIR CONTROL of the corporation 
>by STEALING FROM SMALLER SHAREHOLDERS. 
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>Some select shareholders are allowed to participate in the plan if they
>increase the profitability of the company, but in their BLIND GREED have 
>not done the math and do not realize that they are in effect LOSING MONEY 
>even though numerically their supposed shares are compounding regularly! 
>In effect the corporation is COUNTERFEITING ITS OWN SHARES under the full 
>knowledge and supervision of the topmost echelons, and the general
>ignorance of shareholders! This thievery is paid for courtesy of an 
>ever-increasing percentage of the company's shareholders without
>their awareness! 
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>In fact, because so many shareholders are participating, the whole
>system can be thought of as a massive form of INVISIBLE SLAVERY! 
>The energy of the shareholders that is successfully improving the
>company is being siphoned off by their "masters", while the masters
>insist that the company is not even breaking even!  Perhaps you may scoff, 
>but remember, THE PERFECT SLAVE IS THE ONE WHO DOESN'T REALIZE HE'S A 
>SLAVE, and an even better one RIDICULES THE POSSIBILITY. And--some 
>slaves THINK THEY ARE MASTERS when in fact they are really SLAVES.
>(Do you live in a "land of the free"? Are you sure?)
>
>FRN has been operating since 1913 and has sucked in huge masses of
>unsuspecting shareholders who do not realize that it is a massive pyramid
>scheme that must eventually collapse! Initially the effects were negligible
>but the disparities among shareholdings has been magnified exponentially
>over the years.  Shareholders have not realized this EVIL TRICK 
>because the company has been growing incredibly rapidly
>with massive profits that are never reaped by the DESIGNATED
>VICTIM SHAREHOLDERS but instead skimmed by the CONSPIRATOR'S ELITE.
>A sophisticated and well-funded PR Office of the company has hypnotized
>the shareholders into believing their shares are far more valuable than
>they really are, even in spite of OBVIOUS SIGNS OF DEPRECIATION!
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>The grotesque nature of the beast is revealed in that eventually, 
>with mathematical certainty, doing absolutely nothing, the SINGLE
SHAREHOLDER 
>who owned the greatest share at the beginning of this hoax will eventually 
>OWN VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE COMPANY, with all other shareholders owning 
>virtually nothing! ("The rich get richer and the poor get poorer"-- with
>some of the poorer thinking they are getting richer!) But the system will 
>collapse before then after enough shareholders FEEL THE SQUEEZE.
>
>Unfortunately, it is likely the shareholders will only realize they have 
>been CHEATED and get ANGRY once the whole snake oil enterprise
>CRASHES! At that point, whoever will be left holding the bag will be 
>mostly random!  But what about the masters?
>
>Hopefully when the pyramid scheme FINALLY DOES CRASH, the shareholders
>will have learned their lesson, and go after those truly responsible 
>instead of fighting among themselves, or at the very minimum
>STOP INVESTING IN PYRAMID SCHEMES! However, history has suggested 
>that the current FRN owners have been using the same strategy in 
>many prior shell games and escaped many previous company "bankruptcies" 
>with their wealth unscathed, and are right now shrewdly planning their 
>escape route by cashing out at precisely the right instant
>in their LATEST AND MOST GREATEST SKULLDUGGERY EPISODE as well! 
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>>From what I have heard, the plan is to then use the proceeds 
>to erect the next, EVEN MORE CONSTRICTING WEALTH EXTRACTION 
>AND SLAVERY SYSTEM. They have been doing this LIKE CLOCKWORK 
>on a schedule of about every 60-70 years, which seems
>to be about the limit of the public's memory and the lifespan of
>the system. In fact, it has been going on so long the masters
>have convinced the population that it's a regular and
>unavoidable phenomenon!
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>I don't know what will happen, but I am sending this warning to
>YOU PERSONALLY to check to see if you own shares in FRN, and if
>so, SELL THEM IMMEDIATELY and invest your hard-earned money into
>some LEGITIMATE ALTERNATIVE that doesn't steal from you merely by
>owning it. Also realize that TRADING FRN SHARES, while convenient, is
>PLAYING INTO THE SCAM! Quite insidiously, far more people own and
>trade shares in FRN than realize it due to indirect ownership!
>The MASS DELUSION is everywhere!
>
>Eventually the corruption in the government and greed in the population
>will have to be cleaned up so that companies such as FRN can never
>begin operating in the first place, and THE TEMPLE IS FOREVER RID OF 
>THE MONEYCHANGERS. But your FIRST DEFENSE is your own intelligence. 
>Remember, YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST PERSON!
>
>Part of the moral is to KNOW WHERE ALL THE SHARES ARE and to MAKE SURE 
>THEY ADD UP TO 1!  The TREACHEROUS HIGHWAY ROBBERS will invent elaborate,
>complicated, INCOMPREHENSIBLE reasons why they don't, such as talking about
>what paper the stock certificates are made out of, or how high government 
>taxes are, or pointing at programs for share-trading among shareholders. But
>remember, this is all SMOKE AND MIRRORS--a certificate that says 1/n is
>a CONTRACT no matter what kind of paper it is printed on, the entire 
>government recently became ANOTHER LOSING SHAREHOLDER, and the net result
>of the share-trades NEVER ESCAPES THE SHARE PARASITES! 
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>Please don't attack the losing shareholders! If you have problems 
>identifying the thieves, remember, THEY'RE THE ONES WHO AUTHORIZED
>RELEASE OF THE FRAUDULENT CERTIFICATES in the first place, IN EXCESS OF 
>FACE VALUE. And they'll likely be unscathed after the collapse, but keeping
>an extremely low profile! (But don't blame the printers! And don't believe 
>it if the "authorizers" pretend to be the "printers"!)
> 
>Take back your power and DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY, otherwise, you're just 
>ANOTHER VICTIM FOR THE CON GAME! 
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>May God be with you--
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