Email tracking program hoax

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. She showed me her check. 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. Within two weeks, Intel will contact you for your address and then send you a check.

Try it, what have you got to lose???? Aunt Patricia!!! Can you believe I received this several times, and from one person who insisted it must be true, because it came from an attorney!!!! Recommended tools to protect your computer, phone, tablet and ID Top tips to prevent scams and ID theft Sign up for the do-not-call list Sign up to block credit card offers Free government guides and publications.

And yet another To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, but this is from my good friend Pearlas Sanborn and she really is an attorney. In September the Old Navy hoax was dressed up by the lead-in of a sappy poem too painful to reproduce here.

Our lips are sealed with a kiss. November saw yet another entry in the warring clothiers version of the prank, this one bringing it full circle with yet another giveaway from The Gap:. Hard to disbelieve, eh? On 4 October , a Massachusetts teenager penned the following hoax involving J.

Crew and sent it to 27 people. By the end of November, J. Crew estimated it had reached 5, The teenager who started all this lost his Internet account.

Operating on the theory that one can never have too much of a good joke, the following version of the same tired jape began popping up in inboxes everywhere in June This email has a special encoding which will let IBM know every time you send it to one of your friends or relatives.

The first , people who send this to at least 15 of their friends will receive a brand new IBM computer! After you send this to your friends, and qualify, IBM will contact you via email, and get your shipping address. You must hurry, because this offer ends July 31 of this year!

Remember, a true friend will send this along for you! No purchase necessary!!! As the denial of this hoax put up by IBM states:. IBM asks that customers be wary of any such notes and refrain from forwarding these messages. You should be suspicious of any e-mail that requests you to forward the e-mail to other people. As stated in the hoax:. Therefore, the choice of which five to rope in becomes all-important: one savvy one in the bunch, and the forwarder is out of the game. In a setup like this, stupidity is everything.

The selection of which friends to send the note to will depend on how likely they are to keep the chain intact, which will lead to exponential replication of the hoax. Other versions of this leg-pull spread mightily despite no effort being made to weed out the disbelieving; how far will this one go seeing as how its recipients are being pre-selected on the basis of credulity? Late September saw the playfulness take an even wilder spin out of control with Honda supposedly looking to earn American market share for its automotive products by giving away free cars:.

They assured me that this the real thing! Here at Honda we have been well known for over 20 years for providing the best in reliabillity, comfort, and style. Over the years we have risen to be one of the top auto industries here in Japan. We want to be number one in the US. Now our twentieth anniversary for making cars is here!!!

This is the perfect opportunity for you and us here at Honda to celebrate our 20 years of excellent service. We have been trying to think of ideas to get more people to know about our cars.

And with technology and e-mail being the wave of the future, we want to jump on this opportunity. So we have set up a rewards system to repay those who help us spread the word about Honda. Our marketing staff has designed a special program that traces this message as it travels across the US. Anyone who forwards this e-mail, will immediately have an account at their local Honda dealer opened in their name.

If things go well and everyone participates you should see your account grow quite quickly. Follow the on screen instructions to order the specific make and model of Honda you want to buy with your account. We hope that this is a rewarding experience for you and us. Our goal is to reach over 1 million computers by the year I thank you for your time and business,.

Proving that no joke is too tired not to be dusted off and aimed at a new victim, the following hit the Internet in November He also needs to gain a better grasp of retail realities; specifically, who owns what out there in the marketplace. They too have joined the growing list of companies forced to put up a denial of this rumor on their web site. In early December , the usual leg-pull was reworked to aim it at Columbia House:. All you have to do is send this message on to your friends!

Yes, it is that simple. Now you are wondering how many CDs you get, and how to get them. It all depends on how many people you send this message to. You are required to send this email to the address below to receive your first 10 CDs.

In addition, you get another CD for every person you forward this to. For example, if you send this to Cyber Promotions, along with 10 of your friends, you would receive a total of 20 CDs. We will email you back promptly asking for your CD selections. It will then ask where you want your free coke products sent.

This is a sales promotion to get our name out to young people around the world. We believe this project can be a success, but only with your help. So please start e-mailing and help us build our database. Thank you for your support! Coca-Cola denies the whole thing, saying this pie-in-the-sky e-mail is untrue. The following badly-spelled missive began life on the Internet in February Time Warner, AOL and EMI have begun to conduct a feasability study in music delivery via email, and so are collating data on the way in which emails are disseminated between family, collegues and friends.

AOL has cleverly encoded this email with a unique identifier, which allows them to track all the senders and recipients. Quote from P. The supposed intent is to find a way to cut down on spam and viruses. It also promises to pay thousands of dollars to all participants in the beta-test during the 30 day trial. Now get this - it was forwarded to me by a former software tech who should have known better.

There's no way to track forwarded e-mails. How lame is this. Some people will fall for anything. One born every minute. Please ignore this message and don't pass it on. No one will ever pay for spreading chain letters and hoaxes. As you may have suspected, this is a hoax and did not originate from Microsoft. It promised a big payoff if only you'd help the two parties involved test a new beta e-mail tracking system. Thank you for being part of our commemorative new year Anniversary Draws.

Sincerely, Dr. Saturday, May 26, AM. Saturday, May 26, PM. Ur Welcome!!! Be aware!! Don't respond to these kind of mails. Yogesh Have you received this email in Inbox or Spambox? If in Indox, can you please tell me the name of email service?

Yahoo is very poor in spam protection. I am receiving same kind of emails everyday.