"With the special Internet Explorer tracking code, Bill Gates will send
me $245 for every congressperson I send this email to!" Cheney
exclaims.Washington, DC - In addition to emails from her constituents, Dianne
Feinstein found a message from Vice President Dick Cheney titled "Fw:
PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! asap." After scanning it for any
Republican viruses (or 'cooties' as she likes to call them), she read Cheney's
comments:
Hi Folks,
Don't know if this will work but if it does we can all retire early.
Dick
"Immediately I was skeptical," Feinstein told reporters. "I'm not apt to
trust strange emails from Republican leaders, especially those in the
executive branch. But I must say I was intrigued, so I read on."
Feinstein could immediately tell that this message had passed through many
systems, judging by all the forwarded subject headers in the message body.
Finally, she got to the meat of the message (see entire message at end of
the story).
"Well it says her for everyone I send this to, I'll get $245 from Bill
Gates," Feinstein remarked, "and $243 for everyone they send it to, and $241
for each person who gets one from those people...wow! I could be rich! Is
it really true?"
Feinstein checked with Microsoft, and found that Bill Gates has repeatedly
made public statements that there is no such email tracking program in
place, and that he will not send anyone a check. Learning this, she got
Cheney on the phone right away.
"That just doesn't make one bit of sense, though," Cheney told Feinstein
over the phone. "Read the message -- Charles S Bailey thought it was a scam
himself, but gave it a try, and two weeks later he was twenty four
thousand dollars richer! Plus Kathy Alcoa is an attorney, and knows the law, and
she says we've got nothing to lose!"
Hi Folks,
Don't know if this will work but if it does we can all retire early.
Dick
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Diane Bellwood
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:25:30 -0700
what the heck...
----- Forwarded by Diane Bellwood on 05/05/2004 11:22 AM -----
FROM: "Billie Bobbie Berrie"
To:
Subject:FW: FW: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! asap
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Poster
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:28 AM
To: ace; alexis; Pinsbyi; beccap; cdiamon; edgewaybev@pacific.com;
Subject: Fwd: FW: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! asap
-----Original Message-----
From: Dana Rbackher Walczuk
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:51 PM
To: pattI Spence; Toni Russel; Nelson Mandela
Cc: PATTI; ryan Rodin walczuk; SONNY Boy
Subject: FW: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! asap
-----Original Message-----
From: Earl Schlobohm
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 10:43 AM
To: Ron Ireland; Roger Smilestine
Cc: Bob Boxer; G whittier
Subject: FW: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! asap
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Randalpf
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:36 PM
To: al; Alansky; andy; bedwards malib; charlie Rohloff; dan von Briesen;
derek M; Donald PB; glen beaton; HAZEN jamie; Jennifer mywife; Joanna
Rapf; Karen A.; RAY roy schlobohm; sean McIntee; terry TJ; Vivid Wayne; z.
Rose
Subject: Fw: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! asap
----- Original Message -----
From: Kathleen Jacobs
To: Yvon Monetti ; Pattie Pence ; tami La Frenz ; Christina Herbage ;
Sharon Jacobs ; michael altus ; Patricia A. Banyanz ; Darci Beckel ; Rose
Braverman ; Naomi Brown ; Gina Cruz ; deedee Delgado ; Deneen Elkins ; Elly
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 8:38 PM
Subject: Fwd: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! asap
----- Original Message -----
From: Heather French
To: carla fishe ; donna pounds ; me french ; orangish cheetah ; lye again
; kobe bryant; steve mcmann ; perla sholland
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! asap
>From:
>To: Tiffany Lunsford, Couch burk, Shanon EPMAC, Flores I French, D
Fonseca, Cruz Blaine"
>Subject: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! asap
>Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:35:56 -0500
>
>Message
>----- Original Message -----
>From: janice
>To: Vancuren, Scott & Susie ; Sisson, Mike ; Singer, Charlie ; Ross,
Mary
(Work) ; McCoy, Cheryl ; Hill, Carrie (Home) ; Earsing, Dave ; Bullard,
Don & Pat ; Brady, Tom & Vicki ; Best, Shanon & Norma ; Beck, Kim & Ken
>Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 4:52 PM
>Subject: Fw: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news! asap >
> > > >Had to forward this on........who doesn't want to get
rich quick!!!!!?????
>
>
>THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USATODAY - IT IS FOR REAL >
>
>Subject: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>!!!! It was on the news! Kathy Alcoa - EHS Maintenance Coordinator
Phone: 767/771 - 3547 Pager : 767/420 - 6575 > >To all of my
friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my good friend
Penny Sandborn and she really is an attorney.
>
>If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, What have
you got to lose? SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an
attorney, And I know the law. 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 fi led 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 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.
>
>Regards. Charles S Bailey General Manager Field Operations
>1-800-842-2332 Ext. 1085 or 904-1085 or RNX
>292-1085 Charles_Bailey@csx.com Charles_bailey@csx.com > >
>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 receive a check for $24,800.00. You need to respond before
the beta testing is over. If anyone can affoard this, Bill Gates is the
man.
>
>It's all marketing expense to him. Please forward this to as many
people as possible. You are bound to get at least $10,000.00. We're not
going to help them out with their e-mail beta test without getting a little
something for our time. My brother's girlfriend got in on this a few
months ago. When i went to visit him for the Baylor/UT game. She showed me
her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was stamped "Paid in full"
>
>Like i said before, I know the law, and this is for real.
>
>Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the
largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that AOL remains the
most widely used program, Intel and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.
>
>When you forward this e-mail to friends, Intel can and will track it(
if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period.
>
>TRy it; What have you got to lose
>
>
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