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People still don't know that Bill Gates isn't going to pay them for forwarding an e-mail!

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Ilmater

Diamond Member
It really amazes me. I was just forwarded this from my sister-in-law:

"Sorry if this doesn't work, but who wouldn't want $50 of Applebee's food? Worth a try!"

Hope you enjoy your lunch on Applebee's!

My name is Bill Palmer, founder of Applebee's. In an attempt to get our
name out to more people in the rural communities where we are not
currently located, we are offering a! $50 gift certificate to anyone who
forwards this email to 9 of their friends. Just send this email to them
and you will receive an email back with a confirmation number to claim
your gift certi ficate.
! !
Sincerely
Bill Palmer
Founder of Applebee's Visit us at: www.applebees.com

Hey guys,

It really works, I tried it and got my Gift certificate confirmation
number in 3 minutes.
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First off, she's 26. She grew up in a fairly rural town, but she went to a fairly large state college, and works with computers every day.

I can understand if you don't think about it enough, so you don't realize - even with little to no knowledge of how e-mail works - that this logically makes no sense. Do your e-mails tell you when they're forwarded?

What I don't get is, when you think about forwarding it, wouldn't it embarrass you? Wouldn't you think to yourself, "Man, I'm going to look pretty stupid if I forward this and it's not real." THAT should make you start to question whether or not it's real, shouldn't it? Shouldn't that make you pause long enough to draw at least one, very simple logical reason why this makes NO SENSE AT ALL?! I mean, in this thing's example, how preposterous is the claim anyway. "I'm the CEO of Applebee's, and I want to do this to get more exposure in rural areas." If you're urban enough to have an e-mail address, you've been to an Applebee's in your life. Of all sit-down restaurant chains in America, Applebee's is the ONE CHAIN that every rural town has, or is near. Am I wrong? The first chain my small town got was an Applebee's. For the small farming communities around, Applebee's is considered the "Fancy restaurant," or at least it was for awhile.

Does anyone else know people that are still this stupid? I swear I know the dumbest people alive - when it comes to computers, that is. I feel the need to tell them NOT to send money to Nigeria in exchange for a money order for twice that amount.
 
Originally posted by: Ilmater
It really amazes me. I was just forwarded this from my sister-in-law:

"Sorry if this doesn't work, but who wouldn't want $50 of Applebee's food? Worth a try!"

Hope you enjoy your lunch on Applebee's!

My name is Bill Palmer, founder of Applebee's. In an attempt to get our
name out to more people in the rural communities where we are not
currently located, we are offering a! $50 gift certificate to anyone who
forwards this email to 9 of their friends. Just send this email to them
and you will receive an email back with a confirmation number to claim
your gift certi ficate.
! !
Sincerely
Bill Palmer
Founder of Applebee's Visit us at: www.applebees.com

Hey guys,

It really works, I tried it and got my Gift certificate confirmation
number in 3 minutes.
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First off, she's 26. She grew up in a fairly rural town, but she went to a fairly large state college, and works with computers every day.

I can understand if you don't think about it enough, so you don't realize - even with little to no knowledge of how e-mail works - that this logically makes no sense. Do your e-mails tell you when they're forwarded?

What I don't get is, when you think about forwarding it, wouldn't it embarrass you? Wouldn't you think to yourself, "Man, I'm going to look pretty stupid if I forward this and it's not real." THAT should make you start to question whether or not it's real, shouldn't it? Shouldn't that make you pause long enough to draw at least one, very simple logical reason why this makes NO SENSE AT ALL?! I mean, in this thing's example, how preposterous is the claim anyway. "I'm the CEO of Applebee's, and I want to do this to get more exposure in rural areas." If you're urban enough to have an e-mail address, you've been to an Applebee's in your life. Of all sit-down restaurant chains in America, Applebee's is the ONE CHAIN that every rural town has, or is near. Am I wrong? The first chain my small town got was an Applebee's. For the small farming communities around, Applebee's is considered the "Fancy restaurant," or at least it was for awhile.

Does anyone else know people that are still this stupid? I swear I know the dumbest people alive - when it comes to computers, that is. I feel the need to tell them NOT to send money to Nigeria in exchange for a money order for twice that amount.
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Yes.
 
Yea what retards, 2 weeks ago I heard Burger King was handing out Whoppers to people who remove 10 friends from their facebook. Morans 😉

 
I tried to direct these types to take a look at snopes before sending it forward. It lasts a few weeks but I am soon inundated with them again.
 
yea that is funny. i had arguements with people who with out a doubt thought they were really going to get money from bill gates.
"hes super duper duper rich so he can afford to give away his money....."

/walks away annoyed
 
That would have been a good ad idea for MS when Gates was hamming it up with Seinfeld.

"People, I did not send that email, I will not be sending you money for forwarding a frigging email!"
 
Sister in law .... 26 ....
Hey, I didn't see a phone number or any pics in your post ...

In all seriousness.... If I liked or respected the person, I'd just reply and thank them for their friendship and then tell em that these types of emails are always hoaxes ....

If I didn't care for them, I would let them know using unkind words that they are not welcome to spam my mailbox with obvious junk.
 
What is worse are those "if you dont forward this message in 10 seconds to 10 people, your mama is going to get run over by a Budweiser truck tomorrow!!!!"

I hate those.
 
Originally posted by: Ilmater
It really amazes me. I was just forwarded this from my sister-in-law:

"Sorry if this doesn't work, but who wouldn't want $50 of Applebee's food? Worth a try!"
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Facepalm. Applebee's is awful.
 
Never got these through email, but I saw them posted all the time during the brief time I had a myspace account. It really lowered my opinions of some of my 'smarter' friends.
 
It actually scares me how retarded some people can be. Humans are suppose to be the most intelligent species, but when there's people who believe in these things or falls for scams, or opens virus emails called "picture.jpg.exe" and other crap like that, it really lowers that average down a lot. I still think they should get rid of warning labels, and stop lawsuits for stupid stuff. It would help thin out the population of such idiots. Those are the same type of people that will use a blow dryer in their bath to warm up the water, or put a foil wrapped turkey in the microwave for 3 hours and leave the house, or use their hand to stop a saw blade.
 
i got taken for one of those things (well, not the "i got a $50 giftcard")... man, i felt like a goddamn retard after i found out i'd been had. never again. anything with "FWD" is immediately ignored.
 
So today in my email I see the subject "FW: PLEEEEEASE REEAD! IT WAS ON GOOD MORNING AMERICATODAY SHOW, ..." and without even reading it I knew it was the MS email. Well I decided to see if I was right and....


I'll try anything at this point! J


This was sent to me by my accountant... if you think this is
ridiculous I have no problem giving you his contact information...

Read carefully...



THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USATODAY - IT IS 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 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 week

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. With in two weeks, Microsoft will contact

you for your address and then send you a check.



Regards. Charles S Bailey General Manager Field Operat ions

1-800-842-2332 Ext. 1085 or 904-1085 or RNX 292-1085


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 check for $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 l east $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'.
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Now because I was bored and there were thousands of names, I decided to read the comments people put....

Ok I think this is fony but hey can't hurt to try. If only making money was that easy. LOL

I've seen this one before but what the heck. Hope it works! -fv

Always worth a try!
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The body of the email was in there about 50 different times, because people are too stupid to just FORWARD an email and decide to quote the email just in case which means when I get it I have a 950 kb email.....

Now on the bright side, I have all these email address. Think I should sell them, or just email the people on them?

 
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