Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 23:46:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Y2k-TBV 
To: zihourio85@kml.mba.co.jp
Subject: Y2K Time-Bomb Virus Alert!!


We've got a problem.  It may be the BIGGEST PROBLEM the modern world
has ever faced.  After January 1, 2000, most of the world's mainframe
computers will either SHUT DOWN or begin spewing out BAD DATA, along
with most of the world's desktop PCs.  Millions of pre-programmed
computer chips will begin to shut down the systems they automatically
control.  This will create a NIGHTMARE for every area of life in every
region of the industrialized world.  It's called the Year 2000 (Y2K)
problem, or the Millennium Bug, or the Millennium Time Bomb.  It's a
date-code TIME-BOMB VIRUS built into embedded chips over 30 years
ago by programmers saving memory, and now UNALTERABLY set to go off
January 1, 2000.

Think what would happen of the following areas go down and stay down
for months or even years: BANKS; RAILROADS; AIRLINES; POWER GRID;
TELEPHONE LINES; MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS; FINANCIAL MARKETS.
Consider Social Security, Medicare and Welfare.  If they go down it
will affect millions of people.  Yet these programs are at risk.

Is it REALLY possible that this could happen?  It's FAR MORE than
merely possible.  One of America's senior mainframe computer
programmers believes that SERIOUS DISRUPTIONS are very likely,
and WARNS programmers that it may soon be TIME TO QUIT their big
city jobs and head for safer places.  If the exodus of programmers
begins, there will be  NO SOLUTION for the Y2K problem by 2000.

Months before January 1, 2000, the world's stock markets will have
CRASHED.  Who would leave their money in the bank if the bank's
computer is not 2000 compliant, and therefore not reliable?
A worldwide RUN ON BANKS will create havoc in the investment
markets.  People who have placed their retirement hopes in stocks
and mutual funds will see their DREAMS VANISH.  If the banking
system closes down because their mainframe computers have shut
down, how reliable will stocks and mutual funds be?  How will you
ever get paid?  How will your employer get paid?  How will
governments get paid?

Our first response when hearing about this problem is DENIAL.
Most people will stay in denial, including the business managers
of companies whose responsibility it is to get the problem fixed.
Everyone in authority will DENY  that time has run out to get the
problem fixed, right up until December 31, 1999.  They are PAID
to deny this.  The facts are that it CANNOT be fixed, and the
Time-Bomb Virus will bite us.  The debate now is how hard, and
what you are to do about it.

The Y2K problem is the most important problem ever faced by
Western civilization, yet it is not taken seriously.  Why?
Because people do not want to consider the consequences of a
COLLAPSE of the social division of labor, which is the basis of
our wealth.  In the cities, it's the basis of our VERY LIVES.
The social division of labor depends on the existence of a payment
system, or money, and money is computerized.  If computers become
untrustworthy, there will be a worldwide RUN on banks NEVER SEEN
BEFORE.  Not even during the Great Depression.

DON'T COUNT on governments to save the day.  Their worldwide strategy
is to talk the problem to death, form committees, and send out PR
sheets that they make it--without any evidence.

Anyone who says that Y2K is not a big problem needs to understand
just how many systems are at risk.  That is the purpose of a
COMPREHENSIVE REPORT now available to be sent to you.  Not to bury
you in information, but to give you a sense of the  MAGNITUDE of
the problem.  The domino effect of a computer-driven breakdown
in supply delivery systems, through failure of the electronic
means of payment, will be HUGE.  You will need to evaluate your
own personal vulnerability and make serious decisions, including
the hardest one of all--to assess your geographic situation such
that it may require relocation to a safer area.

This report will save you HOURS of searching the Internet, and
WEEKS of compiling all the information into an equivalent document
that is as comprehensive and organized.  It covers ALL ASPECTS of
the Y2K problem and what to do  NOW  to protect yourself and your
family.  The cost is just $10, plus $3 for shipping.  For your copy,
send $13 cash, check or money order to:

Time Bomb Report
244 Ringling Blvd, #122
Sarasota, FL  34237.

Your report will be sent to you by first-class mail.
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