This week I received this email forward for the tenth time in a year, and the title says, “FW: Fw: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE REEEEEAD! IT WAS ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA TODAY SHOW”, and after I pressed “pg dn” 91 times (trust me, I counted it), I saw the same text that I had seen in so many forwards before:
>What do we have to lose………..
>THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USA TODAY – IT IS FOR REAL
>To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages,
>But this is from my 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?
After a lot more blah-blah, it goes on to say
>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.
What bothers me no end is the fact that people working in so-called hi-tech companies have believed this BS and forwarded it to hundreds of people. Why can’t people do just a bit of research before forwarding such hoaxes to people. All it takes to find out the truth is either to google it, or to visit a site like breakthechain.org.
This one email took up 754 KB on my mail server. On a print-preview it measured a whopping 77 pages in letter size. Some people may have grown the chain to even higher byte size.
Pleeeeeeeeease folks, do just a little bit of homework before forwarding a lie to everyone on your contact list. What do you have to lose? Well, you have to have lost your sanity to act upon such hoaxes, so smarten up.
For those who are still waiting for their check from Bill Gates in the mail, hear it from the horse’s mouth:
Well, it is hooey. There’s a lot of hooey on the Internet, and a lot that’s rude. But that doesn’t mean the Internet isn’t wonderful, that it won’t change the world or that it won’t get a lot better over time.
Amen!
