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I just got this email. First off, it was in text, so it cannot be tracked down, and secondly, Bill Gates is rich but not that rich, he won't just give money to people for forwarding an email.



> >>I'm an attorney, and I know the law. This thing is for real.
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> >>Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises
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> >>for fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class action suit similar
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> >>to the one filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long
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> >>ago.
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> >>
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> >>Dear Friends,
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> >>Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates is sharing
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> >>his fortune. If you ignore this you will repent later. Microsoft
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> >>and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to
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> >>make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used
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> >>program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.
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> >>
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> >>When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will
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> >>track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time
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> >>period.
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> >>
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> >>For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will
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> >>pay you $245.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards
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> >>it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person
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> >>that receives it, you will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks,
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> >>Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a
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> >>cheque.
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> >>
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> >>Regards.
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> >>Charles S. Bailey
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> >>General Manager Field Operations
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> >>1-800-842-2332 Ext. 1085 or 904-245-1085 or RNX 292-1085
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> >>Charles_Bailey@csx.com
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving
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> >>this e-mail and forwarding it on, Microsoft contacted me for my
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> >>address and within days, I received a cheque for US$24,800.00. You
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> >>need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can
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> >>afford this Bill Gates is the man.
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> >>
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> >>It's all marketing expense to him. Please forward this to as many
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> >>people as possible.
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> >>You are bound to get at least US$ 10,000.00.
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> >>We're not going to help them out with their e-mail beta test
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> >>without getting a little something for our time. My brother's
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> >>girlfriend got in on this a few months ago. When I went to visit
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> >>him for the Baylor/UT game.
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>She showed me her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was
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> >>stamped "Paid In Full."
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> >>
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> >>Like I said before, I know the law, and this is for real
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> >>
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> >>Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the
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> >>largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that AOL
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> >>remains the most widely used program, Intel and AOL are running an
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> >>e-mail beta test.
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>When you forward this e-mail to friends, Intel can and will track
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> >>it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time
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> >>period.
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will
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> >>pay you $203.15.
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> >>For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft
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> >>will pay you $156.29
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> >>And for every third person that receives it, you will be paid
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> >>$17.65.
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> >>Within two weeks, Intel will contact you for your address and then
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> >>send you a check.
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> >>I thought this was a scam myself, but a friend of my good friend's
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> >>Aunt Patricia, who works at Intel, actually got a check of $4.54323
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> >>by forwarding this e-mail.
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> >>
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> >>Try it; what have you got to lose????

I should try it, but not sure who to forward it to.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1187, old post ID:10408

Red Squirrel wrote: > >>When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will
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> >>track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time
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> >>period.

Is that supposed to be a good thing? Just makes me want to use Linux more....

Anyway... I hate these sort of things. Of course they aren't true!

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1187, old post ID:10410

Yeah I think that was funny too.

It's impossible to track an email. Only possible way is to have it in html (and I'm pretty sure this was plain text only) and it works with any client or web client capable of displaying images. But it would not track down where the email goes, but who opens it. I can track down people that way.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:1187, old post ID:10411

Oh and in case interested, this Is in fact claimed as a hoax: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data...intel.hoax.html

That's what I figured.

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