Summary of the eRumor: According to this message, Microsoft founder Bill Gates want to make sure that his Internet Explorer browser remains on top. So, Microsoft and AOL are doing an "email beta test." If you forward their email to your friends over the next two weeks, you'll get money in the mail.
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The facts on the email rumor about AOL and Intel offering cash rewards for forwarding an email about a merger. ... 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 AOLare running an e-mail beta test.
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Can you get a cash reward from Microsoft and AOL forwarding an e-mail message? ... Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies 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.
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Is the story about the Microsoft AOL email beta test true -- or is it an urban legend or hoax? ... Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that AOL remains the most widely used program, Intel and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.
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Stop and think: Why would Microsoft pay you cash for forwarding this chain letter when it's Intel and AOL who are supposedly merging and behind this "email beta test?" (The confusion likely results from the fact that half of this message was cut-and-pasted intact from a different hoax, the earlier AOL/Microsoft...
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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.
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Hello to all i once was a microsoft beta tester and trust me it not in email for you have to be a microsoft partner registered and beta tetsters run a program on a test computer to find faults in the code then send it back to microsofts Development team and they check it out.
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Is Bill Gates really promising big bucks as part of an email beta test? ... Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies 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.
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Can you get free cash or merchandise for forwarding an e-mail message? ... 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.
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Multiple versions of this tired old hoax have been circulating since at least 1999. The messages claim that Intel and AOL are running an email beta test and that Microsoft will pay you a quite substantial sum of money each and every time you forward the email to others during a two week time period.
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