Easy Money ?
'If this chain is not broken you will receive £3,125.' This heartening statement, contained in a typewritten letter received by a friend of mine, would seem to be mathematically correct. Attached to the letter is a list of five names and addresses. What the recipient has to do is to send £1 to the person at the top of the list, make out a new list consisting of the four other names with his own added at the bottom and dispatch it, with a copy of the letter, to five important I people (meaning, I suspect, people who will be able to lay their hands on a £1 note without too much difficulty). A moment's thought will reveal to a person of intelligence (it took me about twenty minutes' exacting cerebration) that, if he does what he is told and if everyone else does likewise, he will in fact become due to receive £3,125 when his oval name has worked its way to the top of the list; and even if the chain is broken again and again he is likely to get a substantial part of this sum. When I last saw him, my friend, a person of the utmost respectability, was being slightly inhibited by the thought of his name and address being give wide circulation in a context of this kind; there was eve 11 some poltroon's talk of sheltering behind the skirts of his ol d nanny. I should be interested to know whether any of my readers have derived benefits from schemes of this kind.
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