Beghitam

Have you ever received an email claiming Bill/Melinda Gates or his foundation wanted to share the huge fortune? I received some and sometimes it got on my nerves. I know it’s a scam and even I didn’t check any hoax-buster websites, logically it wouldn’t make sense. Sadly, there are a lot of people who are stupid enough to believe it and clogged their friends’ email box with the shit. What irritates me is some Malaysian even put on false claims that they got thousands and millions RM just forwarding the email.

First, let’s see what hoax-slayer.com has to comment:
"The  Money From Microsoft giveaway hoax is one of the most prevalent email hoaxes on
the Internet.  There are a number of versions of this hoax, all claiming
that Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates, will give away money or other benefits in
exchange for forwarding emails. In spite of thorough public debunking over
several years, people continue to forward these silly emails in the vain
hope that  Bill will share his fortune.

This aging hoax is still circulating and apparently still
convincing email recipients all around the planet that Bill Gates
and AOL will send them a stack of money simply for passing on an
email.  The only way to "track" such an email would be to embed
some sort of hidden code in the email.  Even if Bill did decide
that "sharing his fortune" was something that he wanted to do,
I’m pretty confident he wouldn’t go about it in this way.  In any
case, tracking an email in the way described would raise all
sorts of privacy issues. There have been several hoax emails
that refer to this email tracking concept, all of them equally
nonsensical."

So, if you sent an ordinary email, there’s no way Bill Gates will track that and I believe the chain letter doesn’t have any embedded code. Anyway, I received THAT email from a guy friend who happens to be the laziest one I’ve ever met. Heck, his childhood friend even confirmed it. I guess it is understandable that he foolishly hope that sending emails will bring loads of money later. But then, why don’t he pray for money raining down from the sky? It is better than spending his parents’ money on cybercafes; forwarding nonsense.

~ by magebane on November 22, 2007.