Sweet! Now Intel is in on the deal.

[Wingznut]

I just got this email...


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 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 cheque.

Regards.
Charles S. Bailey
General Manager Field Operations
1/800-842-2332 Ext. 1085 or
904/245-1085 or RNX 292-1085
Charles_Bailey@csx.com

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. 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 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.

For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $203.15.
For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $156.29.
And for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $17.65. Within two weeks, Intel will contact you for your address and then send you a check.

I thought this was a scam myself, but a friend of my good friend's Aunt Patricia, who works at Intel, actually got a check of $4,543.23 by forwarding this e-mail.

Try it, what have you got to lose????

(For those who might actually believe this: No, I am not validating this crap. I just find it amazing that some people do believe it.)

 

[N8Magic]

It's amazing that people believe this kind of stuff. How is Microsoft going to track your email usage? I mean, come on people!

 

[yakko]

Send it to me please. I must have it. With four computers here I can forward it to a lot of people. I will have a new house and car in no time.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: N8Magic

It's amazing that people believe this kind of stuff. How is Microsoft going to track your email usage? I mean, come on people!

Uh... have you ever looked at the header information for a forwarded message?

nik

 

[Wingznut]

And yes... The person that forwarded this to my wife, does believe it.

She knows I work at Intel. I'm considering replying and saying something like, "I thought it was crap, so I called my work to let them know what's going on. And they told me that it's TRUE!!!"

But knowing this person, she'd probably mortgage her financial future on these "earnings."

 

[ElFenix]

ah, internet crap-spew! people used to send me that crap and then i told them to take me off their lists.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
ah, internet crap-spew! people used to send me that crap and then i told them to take me off their lists.

I usually do the same but with a much more bright email. You know... colorful. They're "invading my privacy" so I'll "invade their ..." uh... whatever it is that I invade when I swear at them

nik

 

[vi edit]

Must be a beta testing method for the CPU Serial number they integrated into the P3's

 

[dexvx]

Intel + AOL merger... thats funny. Especially since AOL merged with Time Warner.

Must be some kind of virus floating around with ppl forwarding it like crazy I'd imagine.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: N8Magic

It's amazing that people believe this kind of stuff. How is Microsoft going to track your email usage? I mean, come on people!

Uh... have you ever looked at the header information for a forwarded message?

nik

Uh... you think Microsoft has header inspection software running on every router on the internet?

 

[Ime]

Everytime a friend of mine would email me this junk, I'd ask them not to send it anymore. If they did it again I'd ask them not to do it again or I will block their emails. The third time they get blocked.

Amazingly, the average IQ of my friends has gone up as the idiots are slowly weeded out.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: N8Magic

It's amazing that people believe this kind of stuff. How is Microsoft going to track your email usage? I mean, come on people!

Uh... have you ever looked at the header information for a forwarded message?

nik

Uh... you think Microsoft has header inspection software running on every router on the internet?

its built into outlook. and OE. and hotmail. big brother is watching.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: N8Magic

It's amazing that people believe this kind of stuff. How is Microsoft going to track your email usage? I mean, come on people!

Uh... have you ever looked at the header information for a forwarded message?

nik

Uh... you think Microsoft has header inspection software running on every router on the internet?

its built into outlook. and OE. and hotmail. big brother is watching.

Even if it wasn't... it's not hard for someone from MS to get ahold of the email or the email have a script built in to automatically report back to a MS server. Now, it's highly unlikely that this is the case, but there are ways of doing what the email is proposing.

nik

 

[rh71]

So... has anyone tried calling that 800 number ?

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: Ime
Everytime a friend of mine would email me this junk, I'd ask them not to send it anymore. If they did it again I'd ask them not to do it again or I will block their emails. The third time they get blocked.

Amazingly, the average IQ of my friends has gone up as the idiots are slowly weeded out.

So 3 spam emails is all it takes for you to end a friendship?

 

[Mr N8]

When I saw this 3 years ago, I called the number that was on the message. The person had a good laugh, and apparently I was the first to actually call it. I knew it was a hoax, but I wanted to reply with more than, "This is a hoax."

This one has been floating around work, and its crazy. People actually thing that intel and M$ are the same company, and that AOl would have something to do with it too.

 

[Smolek]

lol

 

[LoverBoyJ]

ROFLMAO!!!

another one of those junk mail!!

 

[Mday]

ya know, before HP bought compaq, i thought aol would buy compaq. the new company would be called american on craq.

 

[C'DaleRider]

What I find interesting is the switch in the message that first Microsoft and AOL will track, then MS changes to Intel.

First:

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

Then:

Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the largest Internet company 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.

Enev more interesting is the prices paid..........first they are even amounts:

Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $241.00.

Then the amounts change:

For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $203.15.
For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $156.29.
And for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $17.65.

And in the second section, where it states Intel and AOL are tracking, why is Microsoft the one that'll pay you?

Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the largest Internet company 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.

For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $203.15.


As for MS being able to track your email, what about those that use Eudora for example, or use a web based email reader besides Hotmail? Sorta defeats that, hmmm? Add to that that the millions of email messages that are supposed to reflect back to MS or Intel or whoever would clog their servers.....consider how much email actually moves daily.....and all that is supposed to partly reflect back to an MS server? Not likely.


This is just crap for the gullible. Surprising how many are still sitting beside their mailboxes waiting that check that'll never arrive. Total and utter BS.

 

[Smolek]

Originally posted by: C'DaleRider
What I find interesting is the switch in the message that first Microsoft and AOL will track, then MS changes to Intel.

First:

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

Then:

Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the largest Internet company 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.

Enev more interesting is the prices paid..........first they are even amounts:

Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $241.00.

Then the amounts change:

For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $203.15.
For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $156.29.
And for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $17.65.

And in the second section, where it states Intel and AOL are tracking, why is Microsoft the one that'll pay you?

Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the largest Internet company 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.

For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $203.15.


As for MS being able to track your email, what about those that use Eudora for example, or use a web based email reader besides Hotmail? Sorta defeats that, hmmm? Add to that that the millions of email messages that are supposed to reflect back to MS or Intel or whoever would clog their servers.....consider how much email actually moves daily.....and all that is supposed to partly reflect back to an MS server? Not likely.


This is just crap for the gullible. Surprising how many are still sitting beside their mailboxes waiting that check that'll never arrive. Total and utter BS.

LOL, and still people are gullible enough to believe it.

 

[Xenon14]

This is rather harmless, what's worse is when people actually start submitting their account passwords and credit card numbers. Those type of people generally use AOL and are known as the Army Of Losers.