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Donations for Cartridges Scam

October 2001

This one was really odd. The e-mail message below directs people to send
their old printer cartridges to an address in Fairfax, VA. A link on the
page opens a full screen ad that tells you how they are going to donate
a dollar to the Families of Freedom Scholarship fund (a real fund) for
every old inkjet cartridge you send them. Note that Families of Freedom
was not a part of this scam. The instructions tell you to be sure you
have your return address and e-mail address on the package so they can
be sure to give you credit for donating to the fund. Initially, this
sounded like a business trying to generate a mailing list of people who
have printers and need to buy printer cartridges.

However, when I looked at the web page you were directed to, it came
from a site in Taiwan and its contents were hidden. It turns out that it
links to the actual web pages at a site in San Diego, CA. I tried
finding the company, and there is a company that manufactures IQ Inkjet
cartridges, but it is in the Philippines and has no information on its
website about any donations for cartridges. I searched for the address
in the e-mail and found, not an office building, but a truck rental and
storage yard. When I called the storage yard, they said that there was
no such business located there and that they would really appreciate it
if people would not send their old printer cartridges to that address.

I still don't know what they were really trying to accomplish but if you
get this message, don't pass it on.

Subject: Don't throw out your empty inkjet cartridges. Now you can
help..........


Help us raise $1 million for the Families of Freedom Scholarship fund by
sending us your trash!

Every day, over one million empty inkjet cartridges are thrown out,
ending up in our landfills. Now, if you send us your empty inkjet
cartridges instead of throwing them away, we will donate money to a
great charity that is trying to raise $100 million dollars to aid
families affected by the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.

Several weeks ago, President Bill Clinton and Bob Dole announced their
involvement in a project called the Families of Freedom fund. The goal
of the fund is to raise $100 million in order to establish scholarship
money for the children of those tragically killed in the terrorist
attacks.

IQ Inkjets is trying to help.

For every empty inkjet cartridge you send to us, we donate $1 to the
fund. With your help, we will collect one million empty cartridges in
the next six months and donate $1 million to the fund. We are proud to
be a part of this great charity drive and thank you for your efforts in
helping us.

Please CLICK HERE to go to our collection website and send us your empty
inkjet cartridges.  Or, you can send your empties to:

IQ Inkjet Products Suite 1009 2944 Prosperity Avenue Fairfax, VA  22031

Thanks for your support.  We look forward to receiving your empty
cartridges soon.
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