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meikmundt

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« on: 25 September 2002, 05:45 »
who knows if this is a bull shit scam for spammers, or if it's microsoft just trying to f*ck people over and expend there enterprise. whatever talk about f*cking my day.

so has anyone seen this, it was sent to me in an email as a attachment. (txt file)

> To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages like this, but
this
> is from a lady, Pearlas Sanborn 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 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.
>
> 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, 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 and
> in an effort make sure that AOL remain 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. 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????

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« Reply #1 on: 25 September 2002, 06:33 »
Ok two things.

A)Is it possible to have e-mails that are trackable just by code in the e-mail? I say no, so I would use this logic, no matter how flawed, to dismiss this already. If not, then see B.

B)My philosphy is that you shoulden't be highly skeptical, highly skeptical is for morons(not calling you one btw). Real l33t d00dz regard 100%(not 99.9% or 99.8% but ONE ZERO ZERO) of e-mail not from their allies(read:friends) or automated data transponder subscriptions(read:mailing lists/newsletters you joined) as absolute shit that goes in the garbage can.  
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« Reply #2 on: 25 September 2002, 06:42 »
quote:
Originally posted by lazygamer:
B)My philosphy is that you shoulden't be highly skeptical, highly skeptical is for morons(not calling you one btw). Real l33t d00dz regard 100%(not 99.9% or 99.8% but ONE ZERO ZERO) of e-mail not from their allies(read:friends) or automated data transponder subscriptions(read:mailing lists/newsletters you joined) as absolute shit that goes in the garbage can.    


amen to that!  

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« Reply #3 on: 25 September 2002, 12:10 »
wow! How long have you been online?

That's the oldest e-mail scam in the book.
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« Reply #4 on: 25 September 2002, 13:26 »
i got that exact email a year and a half ago. I am sad to see that it has been passed on by gullible people all that time and has not been righteously squished into roadkill by the barrage of much more worthy electronic data coursing along the information superhighway.
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« Reply #5 on: 25 September 2002, 22:06 »
See http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/disneygates.htm

I did a seach of www.truthorfiction.com for "forward email aol microsft" and got over 200 referals.
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« Reply #6 on: 25 September 2002, 22:09 »
That's an ancient e-mail that has been doing the rounds for a couple of years. I find it interesting that anyone would consider it (even momentarily) a genuine proposition. Working in an IT department, I get users asking me what to do with e-mail chain letters. I tell them to delete it and respond to the sender asking them not forward any such e-mail again. The number of people who believe that bad luck will befall them for not forwarding it is strange. So the next thing I know is that I get the fucking things forward to me. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE ?!
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« Reply #7 on: 26 September 2002, 01:05 »
two words:

MO RONS
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« Reply #8 on: 26 September 2002, 07:04 »
quote:
wow! How long have you been online?

That's the oldest e-mail scam in the book.


w00t! /puts on l33t hat for calling scam correctly
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« Reply #9 on: 26 September 2002, 07:11 »
my whole point to this post, was that its obviously b*llshit. In the letter it talks bout it was on the News. f*ck the news, CNN is the only real news that dont f*ckin lie. and now that you see other people have seen it years ago, thats just more proof why its not real. the letters says only for 2 weeks.

p.s. nothing against the people who dont think its bull. but id NEVER!

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« Reply #10 on: 26 September 2002, 07:28 »
The first thing you should do when you get an email like this that you are suspicious about is to go to http://www.urbanlegends.com/ and search for some of the text of the message. 99.999% of the time you will find it is a scam.  The web used to be a good place. Today the only place on the web that isn't a scam is http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/
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« Reply #11 on: 26 September 2002, 11:20 »
i just looked at my hotmail account

94 megs

there are 3 copies of that in there

i thought this scam was dead
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« Reply #12 on: 29 September 2002, 05:26 »
i got the same one a while ago.  It says two weeks, but the dates in all of the FW: fwd: fwd: FWD: etc etc, spanned three months.  I responded by sending the entire text of a "hoaxbuster" web page detailing the email to everone the email reader could lift out of the email.  After a few times of doing this (and for various virii) my friends and aquantances stopped sending them to me.

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