There's A Sucker Born Every Minute!

I recently received this forwarded email from a friend who, for obvious reasons, shall remain nameless:

"THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USA TODAY - IT IS FOR REAL!

To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my friend who 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!!! 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 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.

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 expense to him. Please forward this to as many people as possible. You are bound to get at least $10,000.

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 is stamped "Paid In Full". "

It took me all of 15 seconds to go to Snopes.com and find that this exact letter has been floating around the email world since 1997!

Don't go spending that money just yet, buddy!

What's funny is that I received this same email yet again from someone else while writing this post!

Now let's all say it together: If it's too good to be true . . . . .