Stop Microsoft
All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: gotcrypt2002 on 22 June 2003, 11:42
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To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, but this is from my good friend 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.
Regards..
Charles S. Bailey
General Manager Field Operations
1-800-842-2332 Ext. 1085 or 904-245-1085 or RNX 292-1085
[email protected]
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 and in an effort make sure that AOL remains 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 $4,54323 by forwarding this e-mail.
Try it; what have you got to lose????
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At a "random" guess here this is a complete and utter load of shit. What do you mean "is this legit?" You have a brain, use it.
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Can a mod please delete this? The last thing we need is dumb fuck spammers infesting the forums.
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I switched e-mail accounts twice to aviod junk mail, and now its getting posted here...
A definitive dead-threader. BIN!
:rolleyes: V :rolleyes:
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hey not trying to pump up bill gates or anything but, i just want to know the time is up anyhow was hust wondering if was legit i did not replay to this message but did recieve it from a shaky source. just curious as to was it a real deal and besides do i have a brain well i guess not. but tell you one thing anyone with a half of brain would jump on that band wagon and if you dont like bill gates then get what you can from the fucker right thANKS FOR THE FLAMMIING replays.
[ June 22, 2003: Message edited by: gotcrypt2002 ]
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Junk mail is a problem. That problem could be rapidly decreased if people started to ignore/delete chainmail/spam (well, not all chainmail, some chainmail are funny (http://smile.gif) ).
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If you ever get an email from someone you've never heard of, and it says you can get all kinds of money quick and easy, its a scam and you should just delete the message. Certainly don't pass it on to anyone, many people are getting more than they want already. And if you get a message from Nigeria that offers you hundreds of thousands of dollars for transfering money out of the country, well, they are trying to rip you off too.
and you're going to have to do better than this if you post here:
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i just want to know the time is up anyhow was hust wondering if was legit i did not replay to this message but did recieve it from a shaky source
(http://redface.gif) V :confused:
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i hear ya but i am just a little curious i did not reply to it just wanted to see about it thanks
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Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates is sharing his fortune.
Please do not take this for a fortune letter. Bill Gates is a junk. sound better? (http://tongue.gif)
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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.
So, I have to be a windows user...and why the hell would I want Microsoft to track my emails?
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Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a cheque
Thanks but no, thanks...my adress is -still- private (http://tongue.gif) to Microsoft, at least
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Like I said before, I know the law, and this is for real
What does this have to do with the law anyway?
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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.
ok, first Microsoft and AOL, now Intel? make up your mind (http://tongue.gif)
Eediot.Loser.Microphone abuser :D
[ June 23, 2003: Message edited by: Darkheim ]
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um...i really dont think that it is possbile to track emails unless it contains some sort of trojan code...
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Windows is a trojan code.
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I thought Windows was a virus.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-115 (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-115)
Oh, wait, it's a bug.
(Oh well, this topic can't get any dumber than it already is...)
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this just in----People Are Gullible!!!
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Originally posted by ecsyle:951:
this just in----People Are Gullible!!!
And according to The Doors: People are strange
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according to Slipknot, people = shit. *shrug*
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According to Barbra Streisand, people who need people are the luckiest people in the world.
Boy, was she stupid.
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hey now i was in no way going to reply to this issue i have my reasons for wanting some info on this. oh but this just in from - Cleo - flameing post for ? . but thanks
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If you ever get an email from someone you've never heard of, and it says you can get all kinds of money quick and easy, its a scam and you should just delete the message. Certainly don't pass it on to anyone, many people are getting more than they want already. And if you get a message from Nigeria that offers you hundreds of thousands of dollars for transfering money out of the country, well, they are trying to rip you off too.
and you're going to have to do better than this if you post here:
dcctor v
this person i do know have not talked to in like a year never recieved andy forward or junk mail.
i was just watching oout for my own ass here thankyou
[ June 25, 2003: Message edited by: gotcrypt2002 ]
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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.
AWWWWW... SHIT! :mad: If I'd've known that His Gatesness was going to do that, I never would have ditched XP off my system and sent the install CDs back to Redmond for a refund when I installed Linux.
Damn you Linus Torvalds, look at how much you and your damn op-sys just cost me! :mad: :D
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Wow chain mails have got creative. Any intelligent people here will detect my sarcasm.
1. Microsoft *will not* do this. No company will sponsor any kind of beta-testing with tens of thousands of dollars per person without some damn good feedback information which brings me to---
2. Ahh, what kind of beta test would this BE? Is it a beta test of some magical trojan code that triggers a backdoor when it goes through the Windows IP stack?? Is it a hole in Windows that monitors Outlook email? Come up with any answer to this question and I guarantee it's something they wouldn't like to tell their general customers. After all: who wants to hear that the chief provider of their operating system technology has the ability, and is, monitoring your email and other communication??
3. Even if Microsoft had completely lost their proprietary secretive ways in light of informing the public of their agenda, whether it be for evil or good, they would need very complete legal rules. As it is this would qualify as a contest, and contests can be exploited. Microsoft would not let a beta test be exploited for anyone else's good but their own. And by the way the letter has no legal meaning whatsoever. It includes no guarantees of reward, no contact information, no rules of any kind. This isn't something the richest technology company in the world would send out. Let alone inform a 'General Manager' of a freight transportation company about it (while not telling anyone important who would get MS some interesting information). To the first forwarder (or at least the first forwarder to add his own spam): you and your network of about 100 (in any method of distribution it's about 100 because all are around $245) people should seriously think about not being cattle anymore. This isn't real people! And also, if Microsoft were to give twenty-four grand to *anyone*, you would be straight-up foolish not to tell people right? THen those people tell others and soon your a local celebrity. Local celebrities get attention from local news places, which get attention from larger news places. Soon your on national TV because Microsoft gave you twenty-four thousand dollars. Sure, that doesn't *always* happen, but do you realize how rare it is for a corporation to give out twenty-four grand to the first person that forwards an email??
People need to think before they click send these days because you are making social life on the internet Hell for us intelligent people who do NOT like being cattle.