Whats it all about??

[benson]

Recieved this today from a friend in USA

What do you think??

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.
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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.
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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.
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>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.
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>Regards. Charles S Bailey General Manager Field Operations
>1-800-842-2332 Ext. 1085 or 904-1085 or RNX
>292-1085 Charles_Bailey@csx.com
> Charles_bailey@csx.com

[Buntina]

>> What do you think??

Bin

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ms-money-giveway-hoax.html

[benson]

Yep

I actually had the sense to look up the article in USA today which the email proudly stated that it appeared in

www.usatoday.com    (searched for email survey)

and then emailed it to my 'sensible' friend in US

I was just interested in how many people would actually fall for it