Re: Question about spam

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Author: Alan Dayley
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Question about spam
Bupkus said:
> I just received this email forwarded for a family member. I'm not
> forwarding it to this list for obvious reasons.
>
> It's a promise that for every person I forward it to Microsoft will pay
> me $245.00. For every person they send it to Microsoft will pay me an
> additional $245.00. I figure it's a method for collecting current email
> address, but I don't know enough about email technology to fiure out how.


http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/microsoft-aol.asp

It may or may not have an exploit but this hoax is almost as old as when
MS first got on the internet.

Alan


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