Hello everybody,My name is Bill Gates. I have just written up an e-mail tracing program that traces everyone to whom this message is forwarded to. ![]() Tech support scams are an industry-wide issue where scammers attempt to trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a Microsoft Agent or Microsoft Employee and that the phone number is an official Microsoft global customer service number. I am experimenting with this and I need your help. Forward this to everyone you know and if it reaches 1000 people everyone on the list will receive $1000 at my expense. Dositej obradovic zivot i prikljucenija pdf creator. Your friend, Bill Gates I would hope that any hoax this badly perpetrated would die a quick death, but events have proved otherwise. This message has been forwarded all over the Internet by people who should know better more often than the hoax, proving that if anything appeals to human nature more strongly than altruism, it’s outright greed. “I don’t know if this is legit, but I could use $1000, so here it is,” reads the cover note attached to thousands of forwarded copies of this message. In other words: “Somebody’s probably playing me for a fool, but any chance of getting free money is just too much to pass up, so I’ll inflict this on everyone I know, just in case.” It’s no wonder the “Make Money Fast” scam won’t go away. It is not possible, with current technology, to trace every single recipient of a multiply-forwarded mail message on the Internet. Even if you don’t know this, you should be able to spot this message for a fraud. If this message truly comes from the Bill Gates, how come the magic word Microsoft is nowhere to be seen? ![]() Does Bill Gates actually think he’s obscure enough that no one will make the connection? (“Bill Gates? Doesn’t he work for some big computer company?”) Do you really think Bill Gates would promise $1,000 to every recipient of a mail message with no controls on how many people might eventually receive it? At a cool $1 million per thousand recipients, Bill Gates must be on the hook for over a few hundred billion dollars by now. Even he doesn’t have that much money. And even Microsoft software doesn’t cost that much to test and debug. Or is this a different Bill Gates, one who is not the head of Microsoft, but still has idle billions to distribute? And whoever this “Bill Gates” is, how is he going to send you your reward? Vb net treeview file. A few weeks later, a follow-up hoax popped up — possibly from the same source, but probably from someone much more adept at pranksterism who decided put an elaborate spin on the original. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way, Bldg. Office 2211 Redmond, WA 98052 USA**ATTENTION** Thanks for your help in compiling the “email database.” I am happy to report that the 1000 participant threshold was broken on December 2nd, 1997 with a final push from the Boston area. You and everyone else you forwarded that email to have just qualified for our $1000 COMPENSATION prize!! To claim your prize, simply respond to this email with your credit card number and expiration date and I will have someone from my office credit your account with the $1000.00 winnings. With Warmest Regards, Bill Gates ********* LEGAL DISCLAIMER: The Microsoft Corporation makes no claim and takes no responsibility for any damage that shall be caused by the EEVP (embedded executable virus program) which is now resident in the virtual memory of most if not all of the participants of the Late ’97 E-Contest. The E-contest was actually a testbed for a new product we are developing called “V-TRACE98 v2.04”. Within the past few months specialists in our VMTF(Virus Management Testbed Facility) accidentally discovered several new strains of EEVPs which cause particularly devastation to Netscape Communicator 4.0 software. VT98 is being marketed at network administrators (a consumer product is in development) as a virus tool to trace a new strain of embedded executable email viruses back to their original source and “extinguish the threat” by cleansing the network and all client machines of all EEVP viruses and all Netscape communications software. VT98 2.04 then refreshes the clients with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 (our latest release which has just been developed to combat EEVPs and other Netscape and Sun Microsystems JAVA software security weaknesses).
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