Microsoft / AOL E-Mail Tracking

[Goku]

Received this email today from one of my contacts.

Dear Friends,
Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates is 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 week time period. For every person that you forrward 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 cheque.

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 within days, I received a cheque for US$24,800.00. You need 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 US$10,000.00.

Attached to it were fifteen "real-life" testimonies and when, I saw the CC list, it was forwarded to at least 35 other people!

I can't believe people are stupid enough to believe this. I have advised them many times but it seems that they are too ignorant to pay heed and thus fall for the trap.

Imagine, how much this chain must have linked by now?

Microsoft/AOL E-Mail Trackinghttp://antivirus.about.com/od/emailhoaxes/a/maoltrack.htm

Just hope any other passer by might benefit from the experience.

Just remember the age old saying,

"There is no such thing as a free lunch."

This applies in the cyber world too. Anything that claims that you have won something without your active participation is a hoax and may cost you very much.

Comments?

-- Goku

 

[Dalo Harkin]

LMFAO - I am not being funny but the type of people that listen to stuff like this are bound to get so much spam and like you say there is no such thing as a free lunch.
On a side note - Bill Gates the same person who has so much money to spend - has said when he dies he will not pass all his fortune to his kids as he wants them to understand the value of working and making their own success, does this sound like someone that would pay people $245 a contact on an email
enough said I think

 

[Goku]

On a side note - Bill Gates the same person who has so much money to spend - has said when he dies he will not pass all his fortune to his kids as he wants them to understand the value of working and making their own success, does this sound like someone that would pay people $245 a contact on an email

Exactly my point. The idea of Bill Gates paying such a large amount for forwarding an email is as ludicrous as money showers.

Even Microsoft charges you $60-$100 for a genuine copy of Windows. You can't really expect them to pay 2 times the money for emailing someone.

-- Goku