Microsoft beta testing hoax

Research by David White and Brett Christensen. Search for:. English April 6, 0. Then he went home for Thanksgiving break. There was like a gigabyte of mail, thousands upon thousands of messages.

But two weeks later, someone forwarded him a new version. His name was no longer in the header. Then he got another, signed by Walt Disney Jr.

Here are some of the most common versions of a long-running Internet hoax that has been circulating online in one form or another since The names of the companies involved and the supposed rewards to be had periodically change, but the basic come-on remains the same: fool gullible netizens into endlessly forwarding junk messages to their friends and acquaintances with phony promises of cash and free merchandise:.

To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my good friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is an attorney. If she says that this will work — It will work. After all, What have you got to lose? This thing is for real. You can see one of the earlier versions of the Microsoft email beta test here. Is there really a Microsoft email beta test where you can receive a lot of cash for forwarding messages?

In fact, what inspired us to write about the Microsoft email beta test again is that a very close friend of ours who has been in the high tech industry for 20 years! We figured if she wondered if this was a hoax, then many subscribers who are even less tech savvy could easily be duped.

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.