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To: Thomas Haegin who wrote (2533)	7/7/1998 6:55:00 PM
From: diana g	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3115

<<<Off Topic>>>Re:"... At least tell us what has become of this stock tip in 2 weeks, will you, pleeeeease." Hi Thomas + thread, The 'tip' was just my little joke.<G> That reminds me of a crooked scheme I heard of which goes like this: Say I'm a crooked investment advisor. I get a list of (lets say) 10,000 names of people who buy stock. I send each a letter offering my services and telling about my great new secret stock picking system. To prove my system, I give each a tip on a stock which will go up the next week. ---I pick 10 different stocks, each in volatile sectors, and tip 1000 of the investors to each one. The next week maybe half my picks go up. I forget the 5000 investors for whom I picked stocks that went down, and write again to the 5000 to whom I gave winning tips. This time I give them another tip (same system) and offer to sell them my 'service' for say $2000. This is repeated week after week. After a month, there are still many hundreds of investors who I've given 4 or 5 winners in a row, and who are bound to be thinking I might really be onto something with my secret system. More than a few may be willing to send in the $2K. There are sure to be lots of variations on this. One certainly has to be careful. regards, diana