Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
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Subject: Good Luck! (fwd)
Author:  kglicksm@ccsmtp.canon.com at SMTPLINK-GC 
Date:    4/3/95 10:04 AM
  
  
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   This message has been sent to you for good luck. The original
   is in New England.  It has been sent around the world nine times. The 
   luck has now been sent to you.You will receive good luck within four 
   days of receiving this message - Provided you, in turn send it on.
   This is no joke. You will receive good luck in the mail. But no 
   money.
   Send copies to people you think need good luck. Don't send money as 
   fate has no price.Do not keep this message. This message must leave 
   your hands in 96 hours.
   A United States Air Force Officer received 470,000 Dollars.
   Another Man received 40,000 Dollars and lost it because he broke the 
   chain.
   Whereas in the Philippines, Gene Welch lost his wife 51 days after 
   receiving the message. He failed to circulate the message. However, 
   before his death, he received 7,555,000 dollars.
   Please send five copies and see what happen in four days.
   The chain comes from Venezuela and has written by Saul De Groda, 
   A Missionary from South America. Since the copy must tour
   the world, you must make twenty copies and send them to friends and 
   associates - After a few days you will get a surprise
   This is true, even if you are not superstitious.
   Do not the following: Constantine Dias received this chain in 1958. 
   He asked his secretary to make twenty copies and send them out. A few 
   days later he won a lottery of two million dollars. Carlos Daditt, an
   office employee, received the message and forgot that it had to leave 
his 
   hands in 96 hours.He lost his job.
   Later, after finding that message again, He mailed twentycopies. A
   few days later he got a better job.  Dalan Fairchild received the 
message 
   and, not believing - Threw the message away. Nine days later he died.
   In 1987, The message received by a young woman in California
   was very faded and barely readable. She promised herself that she
   would retype the message and send it on, But she set it aside to do it 
   later.
   She was plagued with various problems, including expensive car 
repairs. 
   The letter did not leave her hands within 96 hours. She finally typed 
   the letter as promised and got a new car.
   Good Luck but please remember: 20 copies of this message must leave 
   your hands in  96 hours... You must not sign on this message...