Word: letter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jethro Pettit '82, who said he is the first Harvard student he knows of to buy the letter, bought a copy for $50 three weeks ago, and sold copies to two Harvard freshmen in the last two weeks. "It's really saturated the ranks in Cambridge," he said last week adding, "Everyone's trying to sell it to everybody else...
...letter contains a list of 12 names and addresses, and the letter instructs the buyer to send $50 to the person whose name is at the top of the list. He then makes two copies of the letter, and on those crosses out the name of the person to whom he has sent the money. He adds his own name to the bottom of the list, and then attempts to sell the copies he has made for $50 each...
...letter apparently originated in Marin County, California, Richard Schlueter, an inspector for the U.S. Postal Service in San Francisco said last week. He has received reports of it from the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, the Eastern Seaboard and Hawaii, he added...
Schlueter said the letter constitutes a violation of federal laws against mail fraud and mailing lottery material...
Petit said it took him about two weeks to sell his letters. "Outside of Harvard, people are more likely to buy the letter," he said. "There's just something about the people here that makes them unwilling to buy it," he added...