Microsoft forward email beta test

The earliest versions of these forwarded emails dates back to Microsoft never offered cash for beta testing the tool. As it turns out, the hoax began pretty innocently. A University of Iowa student named Bryan Mack sent the email as a joke in Bryan Mack was no longer a student by the time I came calling.

He answers his own phone. It all started on November 18, , when the guy sitting beside him in the computer lab received a get-rich-quick email, one of the first examples of spam that either of them had seen. Here's a sample email that's going around about the Swiffer WetJet and its supposed dangers:. I recently had a neighbor who had to have their 5-year old German Shepherd dog put down due to liver failure. The dog was completely healthy until a few weeks ago, so they had a necropsy done to see what the cause was.

The liver levels were unbelievable, as if the dog had ingested poison of some kind. The dog is kept inside, and when he's outside, someone's with him, so the idea of him getting into something unknown was hard to believe.

My neighbor started going through all the items in the house. When he got to the Swiffer WetJet, he noticed, in very tiny print, a warning which stated "may be harmful to small children and animals. He called the company to ask what the contents of the cleaning agent are and was astounded to find out that antifreeze is one of the ingredients.

He actually was told it's a compound which is one molecule away from anti-freeze. 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. If you only send out this mail to as many people as you can then you can also take advantage of this offer. Like we keep saying, what you have to lose are your friends. This latest twist on the old gag is no more true than any of the previous incarnations.

In March , The Newell Company an Illinois-based housewares and hardware company best known for its Rubbermaid line fell victim to the hoax:. Now this is not a hoax. I urge you to do the same. The following version of the joke, drawing Nokia into the fray, began circulating in March Hello everybody,My name is Bill Gates. I have just written up an e-mail tracing program that traces everyone to whom this message is forwarded to. I am experimenting with this and I need your help.

Your friend, Bill Gates. Happy Holidays! My name is Bill Gates. Here at Microsoft we have just compiled an e-mail tracing program that tracks everyone to whom this message is forwarded to. Dear Student,We at Nike are of the philosophy that the stronger the body, the stronger the mind.

It is because of this philosophy that we are offering free Nike shoes and clothing as part of a contest that all of you are invited to participate in.

Microsoft Corp. With the use of this new technology, we bring a contest to you. We ask that you forward this e-mail to your fellow students. Thank you and good luck. Computer systems manager: Alan Whitman E-mail: swoosh nike. Nike is proud to announce that we now not only lead the industry in technology used to develop high quality athletic shoes and apparel, but we have also recently entered into a joint venture with Microsoft. Many of you may have heard about the e-mail tracking program that was recently developed by Bill Gates.

Now, Microsoft is allowing us to use this system to find our most reliable customers and offer them great discounts or even free shoes. If you are interested in receiving discounts on much of our newest merchandise, then simply forward this message to at least one person. When you forward the message, we receive a notice telling us your e-mail address and the number of people that you forwarded this message to.

You will be notified by e-mail about how to obtain your free shoes or discount coupons. Thank you for helping us with our first Internet marketing campaign. Please visit our website at www. Your friends, Walt Disney Jr. Netscape and AOL have recently merged to form the largest internet company in the world. In an effort to remain at pace with this giant, Microsoft has introduced a new email tracking system as a way to keep Internet Explorer as the most popular browser on the market.

This email is a beta test of the new software and Microsoft has generously offered to compensate who participate in the testing process.

Microsoft will tally all the emails produced under your name over a two week period and then email you with more instructions. This beta test is only for Microsoft Windows users because the email tracking device that contacts Microsoft is embedded into the code of Windows 95 and Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that Internet explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.

Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing an multimillion dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by Pepsico against General Electric not too long ago. Like I said before, I know the law, and this is for real.

Thanks, Dirk. To all of my friends, I do not usually forward but this is from my good friend Pearlas Sanborn and she really is an attorney. If she says that this will work — it WILL work. After all, what have you got to lose? TRy it; What have you got to lose???? In an effort to remain at pace with this giant, the GAP has introduced a new email tracking system to determine who has the most loyal followers.