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25 Sep 2005 · Published Sept. 25, 2005. Claim: Facebook users can receive a $5,000 cash reward from Bill Gates for clicking a share link. Rating: False. About this rating. Here are some of the most common...
11 Jul 2003 · The series of Bill Gates email chain letters is topping the charts as the most prevalent scam on the Internet, choking corporate in-boxes, clogging bandwidth and causing headaches for IT managers.
Reporting scams. We are aware of numerous forms of fraudulent communications claiming to be from, or associated with, the Gates Foundation. They circulate via email, social media, postal mail, fax, and telephone in a number of languages.
21 Apr 2023 · Common email hoaxes from the early 2000s relied on the inexperience of the average email user to know about technical things. Many of these email hoaxes claimed: A wealthy figure like Bill Gates was going to give every Microsoft user $100.
26 Mac 2021 · Social media users have been sharing posts online that list claims about Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. The post here looks like a poster of a “wanted” individual and lists...
Classic hoax: Bill Gates and his money. "Bill Gates is giving away all his money!" This story is considered a classic hoax: readers are encouraged to forward the message shown below to receive a cheque for EUR 243. Several typical characteristics of hoaxes can be clearly seen.
28 Mac 2020 · A fake Bill Gates message. A long message attributed to Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, encouraging people to reflect positively on their lives during the coronavirus outbreak has...
