Microsoft email scam...please read the beginning to see if this is a scam i couldnt paste the whole thing?

Read carefully...





THIS TOOK TWO PAGES OF THE TUESDAY USA TODAY - IT IS FOR REAL





To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages,


But this is from my friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is


an attorney.








If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, what have


you got to lose?








SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an





attorney, And I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured





AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for





fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class action suit similar to the one





filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long ago.











Dear Friends: Please do not take this for a junk letter.





Bill Gates sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, You will repent





later.











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

Microsoft email scam...please read the beginning to see if this is a scam i couldnt paste the whole thing?
This a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various scams, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them.


http://www.svbizlaw.com/lottery.billgate...


Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.


Check out these sites for further information :


http://www.scambusters.com


http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
Reply:This is definitely an outright scam. Just give the spam mark on the message and have it thrown in the garbage immediately. You'll never get anything out of this except financial ruin in the long run.
Reply:It is a total scam. Use your head. Why would Bill Gates hand out money? Check it out at www.snopes.com
Reply:i receives that exact same message and looked it up on the net but i realised that it is a scam.. i wonder if anyone actually called the guys number at the end of the email
Reply:all of these things are scams
Reply:That's Not Real That Is Spam
Reply:I think some people start these to get active email addresses. Everytime you forward one of these things it gives a spammer or scammer a chance to get a list of email addresses. For safety I put my own address into the To: line, then everybody elses into the bcc: line. This hides everybodys address except the one you sent it to.. Ever get an email with hundreds of lines of addresses? Snopes is very good and so is truthorfiction.com for answers. Both Free