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coloradosilver
11-05-2005, 08:09 PM
Received this email today...wanted to know if anyone had any insight into what this could really be about or if its just bullshit:


To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this

is

from my friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is an attorney.





If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, What have

you got to lose?

SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an attorney,

And I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured AOL and

Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing

a

multimillion-dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by

PepsiCo against General Electric not too long ago.





Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill

Gates

sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, You will repent later.

Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in

an

effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most

widely

used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.



When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will

track it (If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks

time

period.





For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay

you $245.00 For every person that you! sent it to that forwards it on,

Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives

it, You will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact

you for your address and then send you a check.



Regards. Charles S Bailey General Manager Field Operations



1-800-842-2332 Ext. 1085 or 904-1085 or RNX

292-1085 [email protected]

[email protected]



thought this was a scam myself, But two weeks after receiving this

e-mail and forwarding it on. Microsoft contacted me for my address and

withindays, &! gt; receive a check for $24,800.00. You need to respond

before the beta testing is over. If anyone can affoard this, Bill gates

is the man.





It's all marketing expense to him. Please forward this to as many

people as possible. You are bound to get at least $10,000.00 We're not

going to help them out with their e-mail beta test without getting a

little something for our time. My brother's girlfriend got in on this a

few months ago. When i went to visit him for the Baylor/UT game. She

showed me her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was stamped

"Paid in full"



Like i said before, I know the law, and this is for real.

Ziploc
11-05-2005, 08:14 PM
a what?

ARMAN
11-05-2005, 08:16 PM
I've posted that months ago, someone said its scum from years back, if not thats why I am low on money :mrgreen: :?

coloradosilver
11-05-2005, 08:19 PM
I just don't get the point of it. I know it's not real, but what purpose could it serve.

ARMAN
11-05-2005, 08:19 PM
Free advertisement imo

coloradosilver
11-05-2005, 08:23 PM
Free advertisement imo

Advertisement? Are there really people who don't know about Microsoft and Bill Gates?

ARMAN
11-05-2005, 08:24 PM
More times you see more times you buy. Dont know really :? Just my thought. They might even really pay few people who have some good job so they sound that it really real..

coloradosilver
11-05-2005, 08:27 PM
Here we go:

Commentary:
The Money From Microsoft giveaway hoax is one of the most prevalent email hoaxes on the Internet. There are a number of versions of this hoax, all claiming that Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates, will give away money or other benefits in exchange for forwarding emails. In spite of thorough public debunking over several years, people continue to forward these silly emails in the vain hope that Bill will share his fortune.

This aging hoax is still circulating and apparently still convincing email recipients all around the planet that Bill Gates and AOL will send them a stack of money simply for passing on an email. The only way to "track" such an email would be to embed some sort of hidden code in the email. Even if Bill did decide that "sharing his fortune" was something that he wanted to do, I'm pretty confident he wouldn't go about it in this way. In any case, tracking an email in the way described would raise all sorts of privacy issues. There have been several hoax emails that refer to this email tracking concept, all of them equally nonsensical.

This one, and all of its mutant siblings should be sent directly to the trash bin.

Guest
11-05-2005, 08:27 PM
jeebus

coloradosilver
11-05-2005, 08:37 PM
jeebus? thats a new on for me.

Anonymous
11-05-2005, 08:37 PM
LMAO, did the shit spelling an grammar not give it away? That really is almost as bad as the nigerian scam letters :roll:

coloradosilver
11-05-2005, 08:45 PM
LMAO, did the shit spelling an grammar not give it away? That really is almost as bad as the nigerian scam letters :roll:

Hahaha!! I remember those! Retards.

blinkmeat
11-05-2005, 09:06 PM
hahaha - sure

dutchmasterflex
11-05-2005, 09:15 PM
jeebus

where!?



dude of course this isn't bullshit. i still have the $15,320 check from microsoft under my bed!

corpse_grinder0
11-05-2005, 09:23 PM
junkkk mailllllllll

blinkmeat
11-05-2005, 09:55 PM
jeebus

where!?



dude of course this isn't bullshit. i still have the $15,320 check from microsoft under my bed!

lmao - you only got a $15,000 cheque? That totally sucks - mine was $150,000 - but maybe that was because I had dinner with Steve Jobs - Billy Gates, and Walt Disney :roll: Walt just didn't eat much

RC45
11-05-2005, 10:36 PM
This thing still gets people? ;)

BADMIHAI
11-06-2005, 05:28 AM
This thing still gets people? ;)


It's O.K. as long as people still get it.

crayzayjay
11-07-2005, 06:33 AM
It's completely authentic.

topgeartom
11-07-2005, 03:13 PM
Wow what that smell......

antonioledesma
11-07-2005, 09:47 PM
LOL... those kind of emails are old as the internet :lol:
and in the mail say they'll pay you $243.00....what?USD? mexican pesos? another currency? :mrgreen:

ViperASR
11-07-2005, 10:37 PM
wow, anyone who actually falls for that isnt too bright