Bogus E-Mails from 'Microsoft'

[Calum]

I have received some bullshit emails in my time. This one arrived just the other day.
 

quote: Hotmail Notice!
 
Attention Hotmail Users:
 
Due to a recent increase in the number of Hotmail users, we have found that our free web-based email service has become too popular for our resources. Because of this, we are going to begin charging a fee to the users who are not sufficiently taking advantage of the technology we are providing them. The users who receive this email and do not forward it to at least 15 people will be charged a fee of $25.00 per month. I have conferred with my associate S. Jobs, and we have agreed that this is an appropriate amount.
 
Sincerely, William Gates, CEO Microsoft Inc.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com  

Isn't that ludicrous?
This is so unbelievable that i couldn't believe that the hundreds (literally) of people who appeared to have got this and passed it on, had! Maybe they are all fake made up email addresses too. Nevermind. The point is. What fool would circulate these bogus emails? They don't even have a virus in them!
~Maybe the culprit reckons that only hotmail users would fall for this stunt.

[ravuya]

True that. I got it sent to my freeshell account. Looking back on the reply which I fired back, I obviously had been drinking hard liquor and debugging someone else's code. Usually I just reply to this stupid windows-user-esque-chain-letter crap with a sarcastic reply, but...

[Ron]

Why didn't you pass this on? I can send it to myself. And I'll forward it to my best friend, Bill, first chance I get. And anyone else I know who works for Microsoft as they seem to be most interested in this kind of thing. So if anyone knows 15 addresses within Microsoft who would benefit from this email please pass on their email.

[Ozymandias]

Chain letters arent anything new... But anyone who sends me one is blocked and i dont read them...(If i know) Some key words for junk mail always seem to tag along with these waste-of-time mails.. Instead of sending microsoft employees the email the way you got it...Add something special for them to contemplate.. Maybe they'll take action and design a new windows that doesnt suck!  

[robzilla]

People seem to have WAY too much time on their hands these days...or lead a very boring social life. Why bother saying that. If it were true, everyone would leave and go somewhere else. It's as simple as that. Don't people get email addresses with their internet account? Why can't they use those so they avoid all the spam. Fair enough you get some piece of sh!t free email account in case you want to subscribe to some porn, but for your friends, tell them your ISP email address. Why can't people use logic. It's a talent, that is only given to a few people in this world obviously.

[Calum]

Oho! many internet users do not have an isp, conducting their internet business solely through internet booths and the like, or they are clever enough to realise that they will want to change their isp when their current one gets dollar signs in its eyes and starts charging the earth for an increasingly bogawful service.
If i got an email account with an isp, first i'd have to get an isp (i will but i don't want to have to) and then i would have to get some crappy emailing program to use it! i know that there are programs 1000 times better than outlook, but why bother when you get more convenience from a web based email account? Example: if you ever need to reinstall yr mail program, you need to configure it all again, not so if you can just go to an http:// html page and login.
The real question is why hotmail? There are tons of much better free web based email providers. I personally recommend onebox.com it is streets ahead of anybody else. You get a 3Mb inbox for free, and all the good features of Hotmail, including blocking, et c. I have never had a piece of junk mail in my onebox for the whole year i've been using it.
Anyway. i was just saying there are some good reasons not to get tied down to yr isp.

edited because i forgot to mention WHY someone might not have an isp...

[ February 01, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

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[voidmain]

And here's one hot off the presses related to Hotmail and Passport.  Those f*cking terrorists who were holding that WSJ reporter (and now claimed to have killed him) were sending their email messages through Hotmail.  Didn't they have to get a Passport? Works great!  I bet that's how Osama bin F*ckhead gives his marching orders.

So let's see here.  Passport lets terrorists perform there evil but it removes privacy from people like you and I.  Good work Microsoft!