I can’t believe how some people are still so gullible!!! I just got this email in my inbox today from a “friend” that actually believes this $hit is true! Now if it came from an aunt, my mom, or someone older, I would be forgivable due to naiveté that many older internet users have. Instead, it came from a peer – someone our age that has supposedly been using the “internets” a long time. What exactly am I rambling about? An email that goes:
If you forward this email to your friends, Microsoft and AOL will pay you an undisclosed amount of money because they are the two largest companies on the internet. They will supposedly be using this to track how you search and how you use the internet. The fictional attorney that began forwarding this email supposedly received $24,500 from Bill Gates for doing this. While others have received checks of varying amounts from $245 and up.
COME ON PEOPLE!!! WAKE UP! This isn’t 1996 and Microsoft and AOL are not the two largest internet companies. There is no high tech Microsoft “tracking” system that will award you an undisclosed amount of money based on how many people your forward this message to. There is no reward for sending this to people that don’t want or need it. THERE IS ABSO-FUCKINGLUTELY NOTHING TO BE GAINED FROM FORWARDING THIS EMAIL TO ANYBODY!!!
I’m sorry. Let me recompose myself. For a minute, I let my frustration over people that knowingly forward this kind of crap get to me. Let me try that again. THERE IS ABSO-FUCKINGLUTELY NOTHING TO BE GAINED FROM FORWARDING THIS EMAIL TO ANYBODY!!! If you believe that you will be getting a check from Bill Gates just because someone decided to mention the Good Morning America show on the subject line of this email, I hope that you are hidden somewhere safe in anticipation of the 8.1 Earthquake that’s supposed to hit the Philippines on July 18th.
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