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Mikeenh
10-08-2004, 10:44 AM
I received an email today that many of you also received. I will post it below. I have NEVER received an email of this type that is true. There is NO FREE Bill Gates money out there.
Go to www.truthorfiction.com to check things out any time you get a letter like this before you forward it to 100 other people.
I tried a Reply All to the message I got. It would not go through, but did add all those freeking addresses to my address book.
Here's the letter:

>>>I 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, I received 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.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger
>>>> >> > which would make them the largest Internet company
>>>> >> > and in an effort make sure that AOL remains the most
>>>> >> > widely used program, Intel and AOL are running an
>>>> >> > e-mail beta test.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > When you forward this e-mail to friends, Intel
>>>> >> > can and will track it( if you are a Microsoft
>>>> >> > Windows user)for a two week time period.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > Try it!! What have you got to lose????

FiveO
10-08-2004, 10:54 AM
www.snopes.com should have it as totally false also.


Don't have time to check right now....gotta go back to work!

duhtroll
10-08-2004, 10:55 AM
Also try www.truthorfiction.com for these types of things

-A

MM03MOK
10-08-2004, 11:00 AM
I usually check out Urban Legends before forwarding anything like that on. Just yesterday received this Microsoft/AOL hoax, which has been circulating since 1999.

There are a number of websites out there that list email hoaxes.
http://www.urbanlegends.com/legends/

Mike - you can reconfigure your email not to automatically import all the email addresses in an email into your address book. There's also a lock on your email "send" that won't let you send to more than 100 addresses.

Patrick
10-08-2004, 11:02 AM
:bs: :bs: :bs: FICTION!!!!

Bigdogjim
10-08-2004, 11:08 AM
Well if any one wahts to send me money$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Go right ahead:):):):):):):)

martyo
10-08-2004, 11:12 AM
I don't know about any of you, but I got the e-mail and a check today!!

Mikeenh
10-08-2004, 11:14 AM
Thanks Bunny. I just started using Netscape 7.2 and haven't got it tweaked yet. I just changed it to NOT add any email addresses.
1999??? It's amazing how long a hoax can last.

Patrick
10-08-2004, 11:17 AM
I don't know about any of you, but I got the e-mail and a check today!!

Foward it to me please, MM payment coming up!!!
:lol:

Fourth Horseman
10-08-2004, 11:30 AM
I still haven't heard back from that Ugandan guy that emailed me and I sent all that money to. Hope he's ok.

Patrick
10-08-2004, 11:33 AM
I still haven't heard back from that Ugandan guy that emailed me and I sent all that money to. Hope he's ok.


:fishslap: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :lol:

O's Fan Rich
10-08-2004, 11:58 AM
Bill worked very hard for the money he has, I can't see him just giving it away. In fact, when I spoke to him about this, he just laughed and said " If i gave away that kind of money, I'd be selling Apples door to door or on a street corner!!"
Yes, we had a good laugh together. But I had to cut the conversation short, as my wife, Morgan Fairchild, was anxious to go upstairs.... :banana:

Bluerauder
10-08-2004, 12:09 PM
I received an email today that many of you also received. I will post it below. I have NEVER received an email of this type that is true. There is NO FREE Bill Gates money out there........Here's the letter:

>>>I thought this was a scam myself.
A dead give-away to these Urban Legends is the lead-in such as the "I thought this was a scam myself line". These ploys use this or some other mechanism to instill "believeability in an unknown source" such as 'I have a friend that this really happened to ...' or 'You are not going to believe this .....'

Obviously a scam ...... no truth in this at all.

Dr Caleb
10-08-2004, 12:51 PM
I love how some hoaxes etc have been around for years. It's like someone sends you a hand grenade, with a note attached: "Pull pin, release handle, wait 9 seconds . . ."

"If you don't send this message to 10000 people in the next .01 seconds a virus will erase your computer, bank account, kill your fish, defrost all the food in your freezer, make your toilets overflow . . ."

TripleTransAm
10-08-2004, 01:05 PM
A dead give-away to these Urban Legends is the lead-in such as the "I thought this was a scam myself line". These ploys use this or some other mechanism to instill "believeability in an unknown source" such as 'I have a friend that this really happened to ...' or 'You are not going to believe this .....'


Actually, the usual tip-off for me is the line "send this to as many people as you can" or "send this to anyone you care about" (the last one especially true in those "super-duper-uncleanable virus" warnings). I don't need no one telling me who to send emails to, thanks very much.

And what really gets my gonads in a knot are those emails that go into extreme details about (for example) some poor little girl and the awful diseases and hardships that she suffers and how forwarding this email will bring a donation to a fund for her (for example) eventual funeral or research, etc. Being a parent, this makes me cringe how someone would resort to tactics like this, and being the religious type I can only hope that Life will someday throw an ironic twist of some sort to someone like that.

Emails like these are virii themselves... the nature of a computer virus is to spread distribution to multiple new recipients from the current point of 'infection' (or reception, in this case). Only, in this case, you don't need an anti-virus s/w to help stop the pollution of the internet... there's a simple tool / folder called 'TRASH'.

QWK SVT
10-09-2004, 08:48 AM
Emails like these are virii themselves... the nature of a computer virus is to spread distribution to multiple new recipients from the current point of 'infection' (or reception, in this case). Only, in this case, you don't need an anti-virus s/w to help stop the pollution of the internet... there's a simple tool / folder called 'TRASH'.Well put!

My co-workers seem to go overboard with the "forward this for your wish to come true) emails, and I'm fed up.:mad2: Maybe I did it wrong, but I'm still waiting for any of those previous wishes to come true... :rolleyes: Glad the instructions didn't say to hold my breath!:P