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Jun 30, 2004 · Origin of the Bill Gates Email Hoax. Displaying some very impressive sleuthing skills, Jonathon Keats has apparently solved the mystery of the origin of the ubiquitous Bill-Gates-will-pay-you-to-forward-this-email hoax. He writes about it in an article in Wired.
Apr 9, 2022 · Let's take a look back at a chain email hoax that had people believing Bill Gates will give them free money just for forwarding an email.
Dec 20, 2019 · But the founder of Microsoft won’t just send you $500,000 just for reaching out to him on social media, as a post now circulating on Facebook says. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s ...
Jul 11, 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.
Mar 26, 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...
Apr 21, 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.
