well could this possiably work, how do they track how many emails went out?
2006-08-22 02:44:54 · 17 answers · asked by supersssweety 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
It's all just a scam.
2006-08-22 02:49:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's just a ruse to get you to forward their crap around. It couldn't possibly work.
As a network engineer, I'd like to try to explain... even if by some crazy chance someone DID want to actually follow through and pay the promised amount, there's no way it could effectively be tracked. Many people use text-only mail programs, so it's not like they could embed a link in the email that hits their web site to track who gets the email or something, and the original sender doesn't get a new copy every time it's forwarded, so how would they know?
Yeah, couldn't be done. Save your friends the brain twitch and send those straight to the trash.
2006-08-22 09:50:40 · answer #2 · answered by deathbywedgie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They don't track them, it's impossible. It's a hoax, just like the one claiming that Bill Gates is tracking an e-mail and he'll give you money for every person you forward it too. I used to forward those sappy e-mails, some of the stories may be true, but since they don't work it's a waste of time.
2006-08-22 09:51:32 · answer #3 · answered by nimo22 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They don't work. They can't be tracked. Don't eat up bandwidth passing them on. This also applies to that cookie e-mail (gee whizz, I'm still getting that one forwarded to me after so many years...).
2006-08-22 09:50:58 · answer #4 · answered by marzipanthecat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i've always deleted these...usually if someone wants to spread a virus they implant it in a sappy email so that people will send it to everyone they know.
2006-08-22 09:59:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't possibly work... its the same with the disney/pepsi/aol ones. Ignore them.
And the ones which promise 'good luck' if you send them on to 10 people... they don't work either.
2006-08-22 09:51:53 · answer #6 · answered by robcraine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's spam, yet most people do fall for it and forward the emails to their friends and relatives.
2006-08-22 09:50:48 · answer #7 · answered by cmm 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
by passing a fake microsoft email i got 1,000
2006-08-22 09:51:11 · answer #8 · answered by andrew_perrong 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a load of bull. Go to www.snopes.com and look it up. This urban legend has been proven false.
2006-08-22 09:51:11 · answer #9 · answered by Mommymonster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one really gets ten cents.
It's a scam...
yet I send them on anyway just for the heck of it.
2006-08-22 09:50:45 · answer #10 · answered by A.P. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi.....yes, I get these nice little tearjerkers daily, mostly from innocent peeps who think they are helping someone........Sorry, they are myths, urban legends, or at worse, a scam to get peeps to send money....... :)
2006-08-22 09:52:09 · answer #11 · answered by fiddlefix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋