# No, dimwit, Microsoft will NOT pay you for chainspamming **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 24, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642 "2002-05-24T10:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642/1 "2002-05-24T10:49:04Z")
Ignorance continues to fight back; I got two copies of this mail yesterday: > [@](#): > > \>\>\> \>\> \> \>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. > \>\>\> \>\> \> > \>\>\> \>\> \> > \>\>\> \>\> \> > \>\>\> \>\> \> \>Chinu! I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after > \>\>\> \>\> \> \>receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Microsoft contacted me > \>\>\> \>\> \> \>for my address and within days, I received a cheque for > \>\>\>US$24,800.00. > \>\>\> \>\> \> \>You need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can > \>\>\> \>\> \> \>afford this Bill \> Gates is the man. It’s all marketing expense to > \>\>\>him. > \>\>\> \>\> Please > \>\>\> \>\> \> \>forward this to as many people as possible. You are bound to get > \>\>\>at > \>\>\> \>least > \>\>\> \>\> \> \>US$10,000.00. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. The most sad and stupid part is that, reading down the email a bit, nearly everyone who forwarded it said something like “this is probably a hoax as it sounds too good to be true, but I’m forwarding it just in case” Arsewits. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642/2 "2002-05-24T10:54:04Z")
This’d be a bad time to tell you about the cheque I got for $42,000 from Microsoft for forwarding this email then, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642/3 "2002-05-24T10:56:13Z")
I hear they’re going to delete the word ‘gullible’ from the spellchecker in Word too. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642/4 "2002-05-24T11:05:47Z")
How ironic that you just started this OP. I just got this in my email this very morning. What a bunch of nitwits. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642/5 "2002-05-24T11:11:07Z")
Just for you **ultress** : [http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.htm#billgate](http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.htm#billgate) In case you feel like replying to the individual who sent it to you. [sub]Or hey! you could forward it! - it’s obviously a complete hoax, but you never know.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642/6 "2002-05-24T11:18:06Z")
Thank you, my friend. I got this email almost a year ago to begin with, now it seems to come around about every 3 months or so. Yea, right, Bill babe send me some money. ---
**Author:** ![GoldenGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@GoldenGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoldenGael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642/7 "2002-05-24T15:09:48Z")
NOW what the hell am I gonna do with all this email??? Billy Gates ---
**Author:** ![GoldenGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8edcca/32.png) [@GoldenGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoldenGael)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642/8 "2002-05-24T17:37:41Z")
NOW what the hell am I gonna do with all this email??? Billy Gates ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642/9 "2002-05-24T17:59:06Z")
Now, wait just a pea-pickin’ minute . . . does this mean that not everything I get by email is true? That might mean that horny teenage sluts are not, in fact, waiting to fuck me right now. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642/10 "2002-05-24T20:05:28Z")
Try working there. “Hey - it’s Uncle Bob - is this TRUE??? Guhhhh-huh-huh-huh??” “Yes. Yes, it’s true. As a shareholder, I wholeheartedly approved this stellar plan to pay people $25,000 to forward Email around so that we can, um, ‘track’ that Email, for our…Beta testing…but only if you use Windows, so that we can, um, uh…determine how Windows will…eh, it’s all Marketing anyway!” My favorite part: “Microsoft contacted me for my address…” Hilarious! Like we don’t already **have** his address and everyone else’s. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-dimwit-microsoft-will-not-pay-you-for-chainspamming/110642/11 "2002-05-24T20:41:14Z")
its funny. When I first got that email a year ago, it only offered 10 dollars. wow. Inflation I guess.