Talk:Make money fast
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The info about Dave Rhodes - that he went to Columbia Union College, went to prison, put up a website, etc. is probably false. Several websites and usenet postings say the same thing, but I couldn't verify the truth of any of them. Someone tried contacting Columbia Union College and was told that there was no alumnus named David Rhodes. Others say they received snail mail postings of the letter many years before 1988. The website is almost certainly fake. He had to put it up as condition of his parole - yeah right.
- Yup, I'm pretty skeptical too. I think I read somewhere that Karen Liddell's site was not made by the person in question (some doubt the person doesn't even exist!) but was set up by an anti-spam activist, so I wasn't very keen on buying the story that Dave Rhodes set up a page either - and, like, zillion years after the incident too. And from what I've read, the scam originated in BBSes rather than the Internet (and the original Dave Rhodes letter specifically mentions uploading the file to BBSes: "Post the new letter with your name in the number 10 position into 10 (Ten) separate bulletin boards in the message base or to the file section. Call the file, MAKE.MONEY.FAST."). I'm pretty sure colleges had Internet access at the time, why would a college student bother with local BBSes? Okay, just a foggy theory... --Wwwwolf 22:04, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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- I've watered the bio down a bit, just in case. - DavidWBrooks 13:03, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Eek, too many wikilinks! Sherurcij 08:38, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Dave Rhodes "homepage" most certainly Fake
Both the Dave Rhodes homepage and the Karen Liddell pages are manufactured red herrings from the The Make Money Fast Hall of Humiliation. They were commonly used during email exchanges to confuse and otherwise convince scammers that they'd suffer the consequences should they continue their actions.
- The FBI note gives it away. I'll remove it-- please do that yourself next time, this is a wiki! Ashibaka tock 23:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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- So what did happen to Dave Rhodes? I can't find any believable information anywhere. - DavidWBrooks 23:35, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] a drawback of wikipedia
I have done some Google searches trying to answer the above question, but there are so many wikipedia mirrors on the Web now that they swamp Google in this topic. It's almost as if we have lowered the quality of information online by turning it into a monoculture ... - DavidWBrooks 01:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
