Proactive IT security
Bill Gates fortune
Threat risk
Threat risk none
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Description created:
2002-05-22 |
Description updated:
2002-05-22 |
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Summary
This is an email hoax, tricking users to send a chain letter on.Spreading description
Email characteristics:
Subject: This is not junk mail, bill gates is sharing his f
Body: 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.
This is a hoax which may make you wonder "how gullible is it possible to get".
Of course no one is going to give money to anyone for sending mail, let alone track which mails went where.
If you receive this mail, or mails of similar contect, please delete it. Do not send it on.
Removal
Norman Virus Control does not scan for chain letters.General information about removal of malicious software
Norman's antivirus products are in general able to remove all malicious software that is detected.
Some malware, however, uses techniques that the general product does not remove sufficiantly. We have therefore developed the free product Norman Malware Cleaner. Please use the latest version of this program from the link below - if your Norman antivirus is unable to clean-up the infection.
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