Re: Genie, Virii, and Beagle Bros. (was Re: Genie...is it worth it?)

[Michael Weiss <mkw21@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

On 25 May 1995, Jay Edwards wrote:

> Jim Wong (jd-wong@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
> : lensman@crl.com (Randall Stukey) writes:
> : >>If you don't get what you want in the $150 credit... sign up again with
> : >>a friends address for another month, and get another $150 credit... :)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> : >Sheesh, what some people will do to take advantage of the system.  Actually, I 
> : >think what you've suggested here is a form of wire fraud and you can go to 
> : >jail for it. Others might want to consider this before they try it.
> 
> : What's fraudulent about it?
> 
> Nothing illegal or fraudulent about it; there's nothing in the GEnie 
> agreement you sign that forces you to stay on for a certain number of 
> hours after your initial free time.  There might be something in the 

But signing up using a false name or address *is* fraudulent.  Same thing 
goes for people who keep join Columbia House or other CD club multiple 
times under multiple names to get hundreds of CD's for under ten bucks.

-- Mike

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