This is an OLD hoax. VERY old.
At 03:46 PM 10/20/99 -0700, herb lundin wrote:
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>From: BOBSKIP@aol.com <BOBSKIP@aol.com>
>To: MASH10@aol.com <MASH10@aol.com>
>Date: Monday, October 18, 1999 1:51 PM
>Subject: Maybe we will become rich!!
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>>> >>Subject: Well worth the effort
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>>> >>I am forwarding this because the person who
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>>> >>sent it to me is a very professional business person and a good friend
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>>> >>and does not send me junk.
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>>> >>Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet
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>>> >>company and in an effort
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>>> >>make sure that Internet explorer remains the
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>>> >>most widely used
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>>> >>program,
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>>> >>Microsoft and AOLare running an e-mail beta
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>>> >>test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will
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>>> >>track it (if you are a
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>>> >>Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time
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>>> >>period. For every
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>>> >>person
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>>> >>that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft
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>>> >>will pay you $245.00,
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>>> >>for
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>>> >>every person that you sent it to that forwards
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>>> >>it on, Microsoft
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>>> >>will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that
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>>> >>receives it, you will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will
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>>> >>contact you for your
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>>> >>address and then send you a check. I thought
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>>> >>this was a scam
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>>> >>myself,
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>>> >>but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and
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>>> >>forwarding it on,
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>>> >>Microsoft contacted me for my e-mail and
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>>> >>within days, I received
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>>> >>a check for $24,800.00.
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>>> >>
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>>> >>You need to respond before the beta testing is
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>>> >>over.
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>>> >>If anyone can afford this Bill Gates is the
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>>> >>man. It's all
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>>> >>marketing expense to him.
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>>> >>
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>>> >>Do Well!!!
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