Possible spam/virus alert

[Karen]

No one can track who you email, nor would we want them to be able to. This email-scam is as old as email itself, and does nothing but clog up the email boxes of everyone who gets it.

[Miss Z]

Ugh, how annoying.

Who would really have the time to create one of these things? Perhaps somewhere, on a remote island in a dark room, there's a little man typing away on a little computer, sending spam e-mails all over the world. Exciting job

[Jessika]

Hey, you gotta make a living somehow!! :P

No one can track who you email, nor would we want them to be able to. This email-scam is as old as email itself, and does nothing but clog up the email boxes of everyone who gets it.

Yup! I got this same one years ago. If someone is going to make a spam letter... they could at least make it a little more believable hehe

[Lady's Human]

evidently someone gave it a good revival......

I had 20+ copies of it in my email at work this morning.

[moosmom]

I called one of the "testimonials" and boy was SHE pissed!!! I politely asked explained the email and asked her if it was legitimate. Her reply was, "Obviously not!!" and she hung up on me. I think she was getting more of her share of unwanted phone calls.

I guess I got my answer. I'm SO glad I listened to my common sense!!

[Jessika]

...and that is exactly why I don't share my phone number over the internet. I feel sorry for the kids with myspaces who post their cell number on their profile for the whole world to see.

[Blue_Frog]

I used to get asked occasionally (when i still worked tech support on the phones) - Why do people write viruses / hoax letters / etc. and I could never come up with a good answer - i always believed its mostly a 'Because They Can' issue.

But with something like this, what better way to get back at someone you dont particularly like, than to write an official sounding email, mass mail it out to a ton of people (while requesting they pass it on to a hundered of their friends) with the real name, company and phone number of that person? Also, using real companies and such lends credibility to the hoax (like a little truth always lends believability to a lie).

[Catty1]

Always check stuff like this with scambusters.com, or type the name of the email into Google.

Karen is right - this hoax is older than the hills!