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has anyone seen this pitch?

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meikmundt:
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????

lazygamer:
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.  

cloudstrife:

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.    
--- End quote ---


amen to that!  

psyjax:
wow! How long have you been online?

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

Calum:
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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