Intel/AOL-related chain letter?
Steve Whitsitt
Just received the following chain letter. At the risk of perpetuating this
silliness, is there an official response from either company I can point at
to get the senders straightened out? Thanks
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Subj: Fw: MONEY!!!!????
Date: 12/11/1999 8:52:49 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: royg...@juno.com (Roy G Ward)
-----Original Message-----
From: John Morgan
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 4:50 PM
Subject: FW: real money
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 an multimillion dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by
Pepsico against General Electric not too long ago. We'll not 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. If you don't believe me you can
email her at jpil...@baylor.edu. She's eager to answer any questions you
guys might have. Thanks, Dirk. I know I'm already in. Moore, Dirk" wrote: If
you don't do this, you must be really, really dumb. From: James M. Schwarnica
This is not a joke. I am forwarding this because the person who sent it to
me is a good friend and does not send me junk. Intel and AOL are now
discussing a merger which would make them the largest Internet company and in
an effort make sure that AOL remains the most widely used program, Intel and
AOL are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends,
Intel 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 $203.15, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it
on, Microsoft will pay you 156.29 and for every third person that receives
it, you will be paid $17.65 Within two weeks, Intel will contact you for
your address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself,
but a friend of my good friend's Aunt Patricia, who works at Intel actually
got a check for $4,543.23 by forwarding this e-mail.
Try it, what have you got to lose???? . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I don't know if I really want to answer the above question or not right
now. Truth is I'm going against everything I've said in the past in sending
this on. Nothing is free, and so I have my reservations about this. Guess
if it's a joke someone is and will continue to get a good laugh for some time
to come.
Just in case it's not; here goes.
Tim
From: Roy G Ward <royg...@juno.com>
I feel the same as Bro. Tim, but who knows what will happen, so I'm sending
this on. You can do with what you feel like.
Roy
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dword...@my-deja.com
which is strange because it's been around at least a week now.
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<steve.whitsitt-ya023...@netnews.worldnet.att.net>,
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.