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Eric
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> From: Gerardo Magana[SMTP:gmagana@softcom.net]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 9:52 PM
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net; Jeanne Rodenburg; Jesus Armando
> Magana; Jesus Gil Magana; JIM CONNER; leonmarilyn@softcom.net; Norm Lynch;
> rickjeanne@earthlink.net; Rigopat@aol.com; Terry Lynch; Tom Nipper
> Cc: gmagana@softcom.net
> Subject: Fw:
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- > >> Check it out!!!!!!
>
> I am forwarding this because the person who
> sent it to me is a
> good friend and does not send me junk.
> Microsoft and AOL are now the largest
> internet company and in
> an effort to make sure that internet explorer
> remains the most widely
> used program, Microsoft and AOL are running
> an e-mail beta test.
> 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 $5.00, for every person that
> you sent it to that
> forwards
> it
> on,
> Microsoft will pay you $3.00 and for every
> third person that receives
> it,
> you
> will be paid $1.00. Within two weeks,
> Microsoft will contact you for
> your
> address
> and then send you a check.
> I thought this was a scam myself, but two
> weeks after receiving
> this e-mail and forwarding it on, Microsoft
> contacted me for my
> e-mail
> and
> within
> days, I received a check for $800.00.
> Deidre Graham
> Thank you,
> Misty
>
>
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