THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1978
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Residents of Hart Hall Tuesday decorated this tree in front of
their dorm as a present to Texas A&M University. If condi
tions hold. College Station will have a gray Christmas, though
snow moved into the Texas Panhandle earlier this week.
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t invisible I SAN FRANCISCO — The “Circle
pider will®Gold chain letter, which started
aid, "Eveeft the San Francisco Bay area two
nail you re ponths ago, has now completed its
em. Lastyelfcwn circle around the country, mak-
y house an: pg n few people rich, but leaving
o see thes pehind thousands of people who are
$100 poorer.
if Postal inspectors say they are clos-
■g in on at least one person sus-
jpectcd of using the mails illegally,
■hey admit it is kind of late, but say it
fi Hkes time to investigate chain let-
“ ters.
f Besides, the “Circle of Gold” was a
little different from most chain let-
hers It was passed around or sold
■ Jjand-to-hand at parties or in small
groups, and the only feasible prose
cution involved the mailing of money
after the letter had been sold in per
son.
I Asa player in the “Circle of Gold,”
one buys the letter for $100. He pays
, the seller $50 and mails another $50
g) the top name in a list of 12 on the
Itter. Then he sells the letter to
([someone else for $100, putting his
me on the bottom of the list and
ossing out the top name.
[I: If the chain is unbroken, he would
soon collect more than $100,000.
Some people are reported to have
received up to $30,000.
The “Circle of Gold” letter first
surfaced in San Francisco and sub
urban Marin County at' parties
among a theatrical crowd. It quickly
spread to Chicago, New York City,
Vermont, down the East Coast into
North Carolina. It turned up re
cently in such places as Nashville,
Tenn.; Jackson, Miss.; Houston, and
Santa Fe, N.M., on the way back to
California.
It also has been reported in
Hawaii.
“Someone is now sending it in the
mail to people throughout the
United States,” San Francisco Postal
Inspector R.L. Schlueter said. “We
are getting evidence together and
will take it to the U.S. attorney.”
The originators of the “Circle of
Gold” letters protected themselves
by avoiding the mail in letter “sales,”
although they could be prosecuted
for fraud under other laws if caught.
Judith Ford, of the San Francisco
district attorney’s office, said no one
has been prosecuted because “it
wasn’t clear that the people giving
the chain letter parties were actually
initiating the letter, but maybe were
being used. We discouraged that by
notifying them the operation of a
scheme like this was illegal. ”
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