is anyone getting that BILL GATES chain email?

Question

i forwarded it as it said to but i'm wondering, has anyone received the $$ it claims to pay out?

Answer 1

That is one of the oldest hoaxes on the net. How would Bill Gates even know that you forwarded this email? He's not giving away money.


This is a good place to check out just about any story you come across before forwarding it to people:

http://www.snopes.com

Answer 2

Yes, I got that one a few years ago.

Let’s put it this way if it sounds too good to be true, then 99.9% of the time it is.

Here is a hint does look at that address line and see where it comes form. Does it really come from Microsoft or does it come from so other person.

My brother-in-law says that he knows people who love that kind of Spam, they respond to it and try to turn the con around on them to make them send something.

Personally I have won the Pepsi Lottery in the UK twice and the Coke Lottery in the UK once.

Okay, I actually save those Coke points and I have registered my email address with them so maybe this is real (yea, right; but lightning can strike). So I wrote Coca Cola at its official email address and included a copy of the email. They told me it was bogus. Meanwhile I had responded to this email in the slight hope that it was real. They asked me for my address and other information that can be easily found so I gave it. Then they told me the sad story of how he was currently traveling and there was a problem….so would I please send him money….then I would get my….you get the rest of it by now. I forwarded it all to Coca Cola, who probably just deleted and ignored it, and never contacted them again.

My girlfriend got an email claiming she had won a contest from a local politician in her native country. I told her to contact the official, and found his real email address and forward the email in question to him. Needless to say his office emailed back saying that it was a hoax.

Bill Gates is a greedy so-and-so. He sold the very first version of DOS to IBM before he bought it from the guy who wrote it. Windows is such an obvious rip off of the Mac interface that it is funny. He bought one of the world’s largest houses and rather than put in expensive artwork he put in huge expensive flat screen TVs and bought the rights to display the art work on them.

Microsoft has a sheer monopoly over computers. Hollywood keeps trying to put Macs on TV and in movies as protest, but if you collect any random group of computer users 90% of them will have some version of Windows. We all watch the “Hi I’m a Mac. I’m a PC.” Commercials put out by Apple and laugh at the truth in them. Personally I won’t upgrade to Vista until I have to, when the next ‘upgrade’ comes out. Just to make sure your computer would be obsolete the drivers that you have been using since Windows 95 no longer work with Vista, in fact the drivers with Windows XP don’t work with Vista either; you need to upgrade you hardware (IE. spend more money).

Meanwhile Bill Gates is off in Africa giving away money. If he really cared he would work on the homeless problem in the US, heck in his current home town of Seattle. Or maybe he could help with the drug problem, the crime rate… there are so many other things he can do. Meanwhile there is a plan to create a cheap computer that is available to the 3rd world, is innately wireless, green, cheap and it doesn’t need Windows. So Microsoft is now offering to sell Windows for $3.00 to some 3rd world nations.

But, if you want a copy of Windows Vista’s Operating System that you can read and write programs for you have to do what happened in Germany; sue the company for being a monopoly. The same tactic was used for Windows XP. Microsoft will release the code, but they still charge for it.

No I am sorry Bill Gates doesn’t want to give you a dime and there are a lot of Internet scams out there. It has become the major industry of Nigeria, and the subject of their version of MTV videos. It is a national joke that Americans are so gullible.

Just look at it this way if all these people want to give away their money why don’t they use some of it to notify you in a manner that costs money and can be tracked like through the mail. The answer is that it is a cheap and illegal scam, if they did it by the US Mail it would be a federal crime.

Check the sender’s address on those emails that want to give you money for nothing and if you think it might be real then contact the company they are supposed to represent through different channels like their own home site and ask them if it is real or not.

Answer 3

Yes, I have gotten it a few times. I do not know anyone who has ever gotten any money from it though.

Answer 4

No, but i did find some change between the couch.

Answer 5

I didn't get it yet, but what did it generally say?