This hoax has been going around for quite a while. You can read about it and more at: http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html#netscapeaol Charlotte Lucas GRANNEEM@aol.com wrote: > > --part1_0.6ad48312.253541d8_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I know I should not have done this...but my brother personally knows someone > who actually received money from this!! And all I could think of was how > this could pay for a lot of genealogy copies at the library...buy some books > and pay for many trips to distant cemeteries etc etc etc. As we allllllll > know, this genealogy addiction is not cheap...fun...but it takes a few extra > coins to support it. > > --part1_0.6ad48312.253541d8_boundary > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Disposition: inline > > Return-Path: <edjudd@seidata.com> > Received: from rly-zc01.mx.aol.com (rly-zc01.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.1]) by > air-zc01.mail.aol.com (v62.10) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 20:02:22 > -0400 > Received: from seidata.com (seidata.com [208.10.211.2]) by > rly-zc01.mx.aol.com (v61.13) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 20:02:08 > -0400 > Received: from pionex (cvx-dial128.seidata.com [208.15.172.128]) > by seidata.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA22563; > Tue, 12 Oct 1999 20:02:09 -0400 (EDT) > Message-ID: <001a01bf150c$77a8b840$80ac0fd0@pionex> > From: "Ed Judd" <edjudd@seidata.com> > To: "Mary Kolbe" <Neejgm@aol.com>, "Marilyn Wheeler" <GRANNEEM@aol.com>, > "Lee Judd" <LeesJunk@aol.com>, <JoeJudd1@aol.com>, > "Greg Hunt" <CGHUNT@HSONLINE.NET>, > "B & H Electric" <bhinc@HSONLINE.NET> > Subject: Re: Fwd: FW: Fwd(9): FW: FW: FW: AOL/Microsoft > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:49:46 -0500 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > > Date: Saturday, October 09, 1999 7:00 PM > Subject: Fw: Fwd: FW: Fwd(9): FW: FW: FW: AOL/Microsoft > > >> >>I don't know if this is real or not. You just never know, so this is > >why it is forwarded to you > > > > > >> >> I am forwarding this because the person who sent it to me is a good > >> >> friend, and does not send me junk. Micorsoft and AOL are now the > >> >> largest Internet company and in an effort 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 $5.00, for every person that you > sent > >> >> it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $3.00 and for every > >> >> third person that receives it, you will be paid $1.00. 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 e-mail and > >> >> within days, I received a check for $800.00. > >> >> Pamela D. Davis > >> >> Senior Distribution Instructor > >> >> Atlanta Training Center > >> >> J.D. Edwards World Solutions Co. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- > >> > > > > > > --part1_0.6ad48312.253541d8_boundary--