Technology Email Scam

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mustangsally65

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I got this email today and I couldn't help but laugh. From what I understand, there's no way to track email like this solicitation maintains.
THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USATODAY - IT IS FOR REAL
Subject: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news!

To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my good 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.

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 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.


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????

I don't know much about how email really works, so I thought I'd put this out there for you guys to discuss. I have nothing to gain, I'm not a Windows user, so it doesn't really matter to me. I thought it was amusing.
 
This has been circulating for a while and is nothing but a hoax/chain letter.

There are ways to track where email has been, but you would need read receipts from everyone or would require that each person who forwards the email also send a copy to the original sender so he/she could keep track of it.
 
mustangsally65 said:
When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it ( If you are a Microsoft Windows user)

Darn I use a Mac. I guess this won't work. 😛


Maybe I should ask Steve Jobs to share some of the wealth like Bill Gates.
 
Wow, I haven't seen that one in about 6 years now. That one is really old. Back then, it seemed a lot more believable, since the internet and tech was still relatively young, but now?????
 
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