Maybe its just me having a bad day at work, but I am seriously ready to kill the next person that sends me a stupid f[/u]ucking chain letter email from Microsoft!!!
I am sure most of you have seen this lame attempt of a farce. Basically the email entails that if you forward this email regarding some super top secret joint venture between Microsoft and AOL and a new email beta, you will get a check directly from Mr. Bill gates for $245 whole dollars per person wowee!! Also it should be known that John J. Jagoff or whatever the hell his suppossed name has done it and you can call him if you don't believe him!! It is on the Internet so it must be true.
I know that this email is circa 1999 and is super outdated, the problem just doesn't seem to go away. So the big boss got ahold of this from one of his pals and decided to send the damn thing to the Everyone Distribution List so I have about 500 users working today that got this stupid thing.
The entire morning I have been getting the same message forwarded from every department to the Everyone Distribution List. What kills me is I responded specifically stating not to forward it anymore and citing urbanlegends.about.com within the email to show them that it is fake and after I got that out I received about 40 more during the rest of the morning. God, are people this stupid or do they just like to not read anything?
I mean seriously, I work for freaking PhDs that are gullible enough to believe that Mr. Bill Gates himself will send you money just for forwarding an email not even from him! It aggrivates me to no end.
So in conclusion I just want everyone out there to know that Bill Gates doesn't give out money for forwarding emails, there is no 6 year old with cancer waiting for you to send his email out to 10,000 people so that he can get the operation he needs, if you make a wish and send out 20,000 emails it just shows you have way to much time on your hands and should get back to work, the ring was just a good movie and in real life nobody calls you after reading an email and sending it out, and please please please for the love of all that is good and righteous delete them immediately and do not forward it.
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D[b][/b]amn.. no wonder I never got that check... 
Katie, now you just know that you owe at least 4k of your post count to chain letters. 
But if you don't forward it something bad will happen to you.
Don't you read this stuff?
Don't you read this stuff?
Quote:
From: MentalFrog
To: hadesgang
Sent: Oct 14, 2005 @ 2:01 PM ET
Read: Oct 14, 2005 @ 2:05 PM ET
Subject: OMFG!!11onelven CHECK THIS OUT
Message Body: [ Reply | Forward ]
To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my good friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is an attorney.
If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, What have you got to lose? SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an attorney, And I know the law. 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.
Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates 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 weeks 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 check.
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 withindays, I receive a check for $24,800.00. You need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can affoard 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 $10,000.00. We're not going to help them out with their e-mail beta test without getting a little something for our time. My brother's girlfriend got in on this a few months ago. When i went to visit him for the Baylor/UT game. She showed me her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was stamped "Paid in full"
Like i said before, I know the law, and this is for real.
To: hadesgang
Sent: Oct 14, 2005 @ 2:01 PM ET
Read: Oct 14, 2005 @ 2:05 PM ET
Subject: OMFG!!11onelven CHECK THIS OUT
Message Body: [ Reply | Forward ]
To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my good friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is an attorney.
If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, What have you got to lose? SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an attorney, And I know the law. 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.
Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates 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 weeks 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 check.
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 withindays, I receive a check for $24,800.00. You need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can affoard 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 $10,000.00. We're not going to help them out with their e-mail beta test without getting a little something for our time. My brother's girlfriend got in on this a few months ago. When i went to visit him for the Baylor/UT game. She showed me her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was stamped "Paid in full"
Like i said before, I know the law, and this is for real.
Meh well if you ******* would keep me entertained I wouldnt be forced to commit attrocities on the Allah forums to amuse myself.
@ MentalSome people are like slinkies, they aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
AngstyCoder wrote:
iF you Crosspost this message to 10 other forums, the server gerbils will obey your every command for 2 days.
ooooooo!
Alright, Angsty, I'm omw to your forum, then!
#10REDACTED,
Posted: Oct 15 2005 at 8:44 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) This is so scary copy an past this to 5 ppl an your love of yur life wil cal in 3 minuts! if jnot u wil die.
Chain-letters **** me off. I just reply and forward to everyone that sent , and say ********** off!". But I'm sure you can't do that at work.
Still waiting to be killed by the last 100 I didn't forward.
Still waiting to be killed by the last 100 I didn't forward.
I got that e-mail from someone who supposedly worked in IT. Now that left me flabberghasted.
I'm also still getting the periodic e-mail about the 7 year old with incurable terminal cancer. Will that kid never die? I've been getting that one for years!
I'm also still getting the periodic e-mail about the 7 year old with incurable terminal cancer. Will that kid never die? I've been getting that one for years!
lol, wow. Deserves rate up!
Edit: Over 4k posts...little help that will do. But it's the thought that counts......
Edited, Sun Oct 16 14:07:15 2005 by ThatguyMatt
Edit: Over 4k posts...little help that will do. But it's the thought that counts......
Edited, Sun Oct 16 14:07:15 2005 by ThatguyMatt
My best friend is a chain letter idiot.
I remember one time he sent me a chain Yahoo InstantMessage that said something to the effect of "Embedded in this message is a virus. If you close this message without forwarding it to everyone on your buddy list, your hard drive will be deleted."
I actually had to explain to a thirty five year old man that 1) it wasn't possible to encode a virus into an instant message - you have to activate something (a macro, a .dat file, *something*) that launches the virus in order to get infected, and 2) if he truly did believe that the message contained a virus that was going to wipe out his hard drive, what he had done by giving it to other people (his best freaking friend, no less) was about the wrongest thing on the face of the planet. I told him if he sent me another chain *anything*, I was just going to block him and that would be the end of it.
But I don't know what I'm expecting from him. After all, this is someone who can't seem to get it through his stupid head that you can only smoke the females, so...
if you know what the above comment means, then yer kewl. if you don't, then yer still kewl, but I'm not explaining it. :D
I remember one time he sent me a chain Yahoo InstantMessage that said something to the effect of "Embedded in this message is a virus. If you close this message without forwarding it to everyone on your buddy list, your hard drive will be deleted."
I actually had to explain to a thirty five year old man that 1) it wasn't possible to encode a virus into an instant message - you have to activate something (a macro, a .dat file, *something*) that launches the virus in order to get infected, and 2) if he truly did believe that the message contained a virus that was going to wipe out his hard drive, what he had done by giving it to other people (his best freaking friend, no less) was about the wrongest thing on the face of the planet. I told him if he sent me another chain *anything*, I was just going to block him and that would be the end of it.
But I don't know what I'm expecting from him. After all, this is someone who can't seem to get it through his stupid head that you can only smoke the females, so...
if you know what the above comment means, then yer kewl. if you don't, then yer still kewl, but I'm not explaining it. :D
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