Do you get emails like this from friends or relatives?

[undeterred]

THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USA TODAY - 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 &nbs p; 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 weeks 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 check.

Regards. Charles S Bailey General Manager Field Operations
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 affoard 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 $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".





:eyes: I never know what to say when people send me this stuff and they're all excited about it.

[petronius]

1. I totally thought it was a scam at first, but those odd numbers convinced me!

I mean, if it was fake, they wouldn't use a number like $241, right!?

:silly:

[datasuspect]

2. i don't have anything positive to contribute in response to this

let's just say the words "moron" and "dipshit" enter my mind.

[undeterred]

4. Whats amazing is I get stuff like this

almost always from other women, one of whom is a higher level techie than I am. I can't believe she would fall for it but she always passes it on. It ends in my trash.

[trof]

3. Sadly, I do.

From people who are usually pretty bright and 'with it' about other stuff.
It's usually older folk (and I'm 66, so back off! ;-)).
They are relatively new to computers and believe anything that comes to their inbox.

My late mother-in-law was like that about anything that was 'in the TV'.
For her, it was 'in', not 'on', which, if you think about it, kind of makes sense.

Anyway, if it was in the TV it was gospel as far as she was concerned.
We just thought it was cute.

[pagerbear]

5. Sometimes I reply with a link to the Snopes.com article debunking the email.

Sometimes I just trash it.

[trof]

9. If it's political, I do. Otherwise 'delete'.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. That thing is still going around?

[undeterred]

7. I got it today.

Did you get your check yet? :shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

10. I remember mom getting it in her email like 10 years ago...

That's the only time I ever heard of it. It was ridiculous then, but even more ridiculous now, haha.

[wildhorses]

8. i just delete it and keep on truckin'

barely a blip on my radar:shrug:

[havocmom]

11. Write: 'You idiots are why we have bush fucking up the whole world'

then hit REPLY ALL

Should take care of any more emails like that one :evilgrin: