bill gates sharing his fortune?

[marki]

i have seen it but ,,,??? who knows

[silver500chimp]

Anybody revceived this email

Dear all
>
> Please pass this on - it could be worth a fortune for a few seconds.
> Worth the punt
>
> >
> 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.
>

Is it a scam? Though some of you IT guys might know

[plotloss]

Its complete and utter toss!

Theres not a mail protocol that could possibly support it and added to which AOL Time Warner have just posted the largest first quarter loss of any company in History so if Bill was giving his cash away they would be first with their hands out!

Matt.

[craigalsop]

quote:Anybody revceived this email

Is it a scam? Though some of you IT guys might know

Yes it's a hoax - a recycled one at that...

cheers,
Craig

[Bodo]

seen that years before.
Just delete every email, which is not explicitely addressed to you.

[pbrettle]

Aint it good that the old ones keep re-surfacing time and time again.

www.europe.f-secure.com/hoaxes/bgetrack.shtml

Just ones of the variants. If you ever want to check on these things then just go to the major anti-virus vendors (Symantec etc), or a link is provided below:

www.europe.f-secure.com/virus-info/hoax/

Cheers,

Paul

[JonRB]

If it says "pass this on to everyone you know" then it is almost certainly a hoax.

In this case, it is definitely one.
See www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/msoftwillpay.html