Is this real

just got a message from a whatapp contact :
ATTN: this goes out to all my family, program friends, & untilnuorkers alike: P L E A S E R E A D A L L !!
This was on the FOX 9:00 o'clock News the other night, and this works. THIS OPPORTUNITY ALSO TOOK UP TWO FULL PAGES OF THE TUESDAY EDITION OF USA TODAY - IT IS FOR REAL!! PLEEEEEEASE READ, it was on the news. This thing is for real. Rest assured, AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class-action suit, similar to the one filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long ago. 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 search engine 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 check.
Regards,
Charles S. Bailey
General Manager, Field Operations
1-800-842-2332 Ext. 1085 or
1-800-904-1085 or
RNX 292-1085
I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Microsoft contacted me for my address, and within days, I received a check for $24,800.00. You need
to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can afford this, Bill gates is the man. It's all marketing expenses to him. Please forward this to as many
people as possible.
Thank you, and peace and plenty!

Maybe real maybe not. We dont know

Is this real? Are you joking?

Answers Microsoft

Fortune Link Nov19 , 2017

Check both links you will get your answer.

Your WhatsApp contact is a credulous fool.

Of course it isn't real.

I have a feeling it real but am not sure.

what a troller

A social media message that claims Microsoft and AOL will pay Internet users money for forwarding an email is being circulated on Facebook.

The message can be seen below.

This was on the 9:00 o’clock news the other night and this works. THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USA TODAY – IT IS FOR REALPLEEEEEEASE READ it was on the news!This thing is for real. Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long ago.Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates 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 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.RegardsCharles S Bailey General Manager Field Operations
1-800-842-2332 Ext. 1085 or 904-1085 or RNX
292-1085I thought this was a scam myself, But two weeks after receiving
this e-mail and forwarding it on. Microsoft contacted me for my
address and within days, I receive a check for $24, 800.00. You need
to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can afford this,
Bill gates is the man.It’s all marketing expense to him. Please forward this to as many
people as possible.

It’s a hoax. And an old one at that. The assertion that Internet companies are going to pay email recipients for forwarding an email to their friends is perhaps one of the oldest types of chain email hoaxes in the history of the Web, spreading between people well before the days of social media.

Bill Gates, Microsoft and AOL are all commonly quoted in these types of hoaxes, which are persistently being given digital face-lifts and once again getting set loose in the wild. And it’s clear that the above message is a rather old one. For one, it is imploring readers to forward emails, so why it’s being copied and pasted on Facebook by thousands of social media users is somewhat of a mystery.

And the claim that AOL and Microsoft are trying to “make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program” is also another tell-tale sign of the hoax’s old age, given that Microsoft has now dropped Internet Explorer in favour of its latest browser Microsoft Edge.

Of course there are a number of other red flags that would clearly out this nonsense as, well, nonsense… but we’re not going to go into them here since we’ve debunked these kinds of hoaxes time and time again in the past.

No, you don’t get paid for forwarding emails or copying and pasting Facebook statuses. This is a hoax, from start to finish.

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adeniyi faith said:

I have a feeling it real but am not sure.

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https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/...ft-bill-gates-sharing-his-fortune-is-a-prank/
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/microsoft.asp
https://www.truthorfiction.com/msoffer/

Over the last 20 years, the Microsoft-AOL forwarding beta test emails hoax has become one of the most widely circulated rumors we’ve ever encountered. It’s even spawned similar hoaxes like the AOL-Intel hoax and the Disneyland-Microsoft hoax, just to name a few.
As it turns out, the hoax began pretty innocently. Wired reporter Jonathan Keats dove deep into the issue back in 2014 and tracked down the beta test email’s original sender. A University of Iowa student named Bryan Mack sent the email as a joke in 1997:

Bryan Mack was no longer a student by the time I came calling. He’d graduated in 2001 and had taken a job programming databases at the Colorado School of Mines. He’s a regular guy. He answers his own phone. “I wasn’t trying to trick people,” he told me. “It was just a joke between a couple friends.” Then he described how the joke got a little out of hand.

It all started on November 18, 1997, when the guy sitting beside him in the computer lab received a get-rich-quick email, one of the first examples of spam that either of them had seen. “I can come up with something better than that,” Mack boasted. Three minutes later, Bill Gates’ email-tracing program was born. Mack thought it was funny enough to send to a friend at Loras College in Dubuque, with “bill gates here” in the subject line. It made the guy laugh, so he passed it on.

Within days, the message was being read by strangers. A few wrote Mack, asking about their money. Whatever, he thought. Then he went home for Thanksgiving break. “When I got back to school, my account was locked up. There was like a gigabyte of mail, thousands upon thousands of messages.” He set up a filter to block the onslaught. But two weeks later, someone forwarded him a new version. His name was no longer in the header. It came from [email protected] and offered $1,000 and a complimentary copy of Windows 98. Then he got another, signed by Walt Disney Jr., that promised $5,000 and a free vacation. “I started getting scared,” he says. “I thought maybe I was going to get in trouble for fraud.” But Bryan Mack had already been forgotten. He went on with his studies in computer science. He occasionally played phone pranks on friends’ parents, posing as a manager from Goody Tree Service, saying they’d ordered a spruce.

Twenty years later, the email beta test hoax has become one of the most widely circulated in the history of the internet, but the email is nothing more than a hoax among friends.

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adeniyi faith said:

Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies

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Was I the only one it bothered him?

Just sent it to 10,000 people.





Gonna be a millionaire!!!