July 24, 2007
Got this in my email today. I still can't believe how gullible people are. It had been forwarded to about a thousand people–at least–and they were all listed in the "forwarding" junk at the top of the email. A great way to harvest email addresses. (Mwahahahaaaa!)
THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USA TODAY - IT I S
FOR REAL
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 EVERY BODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!!
I'm an attorney, And I know the law. This thing is forreal. Rest assured
AOL and Intel will follow through with theirpromises forfear of facing a multimillion-dollar class actionsuit similar to the one filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long ago.
Dear Friends: Please do not take this for a junkletter. 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 Explorerremains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL arerunning 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 weekstime period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to,Microsoft will pay you $245.00 For every person that you sent it tothat forward s it on,Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every thirdperson 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 29 2-1085
Thought this was a scam myself, But two weeks after receiving thise-mail and forwarding it on. Microsoft contacted me for my address and within days, I received a check for $24, 800.00. Youneed to respond
before the beta testing is over. If anyone can
afford 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 hel p them out with their e-mail
beta test without getting a little something for our time. Mybrother'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".
Yyyeaaaah.
I'm just sitting here scratching my head at people who believe this stuff.
I need to send back an email with a link to Snopes.com, no?
July 24th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Well, I think it’s obvious what needs to happen…Call the phone number to confirm!
As the doors said, People are strange…
July 24th, 2007 at 11:14 am
I got this same email about 3 years ago. Still haven’t seen any money (haha).
July 24th, 2007 at 11:33 am
I’ve gotten it in the past as well. And no one I know ever received any money.
July 24th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I’m always getting junk like this from people. I always send them a link to Snopes. With a “reply all”. Not that it ever seems to cut down on the crap like this I get, but it makes me feel better. *g*
July 24th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
crazy. But did you get the one about Amazon selling books on dog fighting? How to do it and such? Hmmm…not good.
July 24th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
The horrible grammar, spelling, punctuation and formatting of these emails always cracks me up. I can’t tell if the authors think that makes them more believable, ya know, because obviously they were written by a Regular Joe just like you and me, or if maybe they originate in another country and are written by someone whose first language isn’t English, so I shouldn’t be making fun, I should in fact be impressed with their ingenuity as well as their grasp of the language? I certainly couldn’t send out a proper scam email in Spanish or French, the two languages besides English that I know a wee bit of.
July 24th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Sigh. Remember the good old days when all you got were helpful emails on how to enlarge your penis and PayPal fraud?
July 25th, 2007 at 9:11 am
This one’s been going around in various forms for years. People are so gullible. I knew someone who constantly sent me this crap and I would constantly reply-all with Snopes links debunking. After a dozen or so such instances, she stopped emailing me altogether. I’m not sure if that’s because she tired of looking foolish and finally started researching before forwarding, or if she just cut me out of the loop.
Either way. =)