Bill Gates fortune

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Bill Gates fortune Destructivity: Spreading: Overall risk:
  
• Detected by virus detection files published: 5/22/2002 • Type: Hoax
• Virus characteristics first published: 5/22/2002 • Spreading mechanism: Email
• Virus characteristics latest update: 12/17/2003 • Overall risk: None

Virus type Spreading
mechanism 		Destructivity
and payload 		Additional
descriptions 		Detection
and removal
Email characteristics:
  • Subject: This is not junk mail, bill gates is sharing his f
  • Body: Dear Friends,

    Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates is 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 week 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 cheque.

    Regards.


  • Attachment: None
This is another hoax which may make you wonder "how gullible is it possible to get".
Of course no one is going to give money to anyone for sending mail, let alone track which mails went where.

If you receive this mail, or mails of similar contect, please delete it. Do not send it on.
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