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54538 2002-06-16 01:25:00 This e-mail thats doing the rounds is a bit of humor!!
If only!!! and its not a virus either, sounds like a pyramid scheme abit, my guess is its to collect addy's to sell on. SPAM eh!

Subject: THIS IS FOR REAL. IT WAS ON THE NEWS LAST NIGHT.

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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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54539 2002-06-16 01:55:00 this is called SPAM, CHAIN Letter. Guest (0)
54540 2002-06-16 03:42:00 LOL..... I know some people who think this email is for real!

I have a doosey of an email I forward to anyone who sends me a spam.....

Alan:-)
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54541 2002-06-16 05:16:00 As soon as I saw this email I deleted it. Anybody sucked in by this sort of thing is very gullible, very stupid, or very f...! Guest (0)
54542 2002-06-16 05:43:00 Totally agree - thats my point - the amount of people that actually fall for this stuff is unreal though!! it is annoying though,cause i like everbody, hate spam and its usually close friends etc... that send it on to you and they just don't learn!!! Guest (0)
54543 2002-06-16 07:36:00 How many years has this been going around? :-/ Guest (0)
54544 2002-06-16 07:38:00 How many years has this been going around? :-/ Guest (0)
54545 2002-06-16 18:01:00 Well another thing you could do is cut n paste all the addresses from the email and sell em to spammers Bwaahahaha hahahaha!!!!weeeeheeeee.... Guest (0)
54546 2002-06-17 09:00:00 I really think you should post the 'AO' one... :)

I get totall sick of the ones that frequent the teenage crowd...

YYYYYEEEEEWEWWWW

Some people need to get a life...

On one occassion I hit the reply all button (which gave me around 7,000 addresses) and told the lot of them where to stick it...

I image in just about killed my ISP, how often does something around 75KB (body section only) in size, and with a CC list of 7000 get send around?

I'm appalled by the number of people who are sucked in by it, we really are a gullible society...

Quite sad really...

:(

Erin
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