{"id":269,"date":"2005-08-31T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/?p=269"},"modified":"2005-08-31T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T13:05:00","slug":"can-you-believe-people-are-still-falling-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Can you believe people are still falling for this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got an email from Haseeb Kahn (who I have never heard of) and several thousand of his closest friends, here is the meat of the message . . .<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;color:#000066;\"><em>When you forward this e-mail to friends, I! ntel can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period.<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;color:#000066;\"><em><\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;color:#000066;\"><em>For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $203.15.<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;color:#000066;\"><em>For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $156.29<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;color:#000066;\"><em>And for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $17.65.<\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;color:#000066;\"><em><\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;color:#000066;\"><em>Within two weeks, Intel will contact you for your address and then send you a check.I thought this was a scam myself, but a friend of my good friend&#8217;s Aunt Patricia, who works at Intel, actually got a check of $4,54323 by forwarding this e-mail.Try it; what have you got to lose???? Suresh ,<\/em> <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\">What have you got to lose? How about respect. This is <strong>STUPID<\/strong> and when you send it to someone you are saying &#8221; I beleive it and I think you will go for it too&#8221;. And while I am at it, here are a whole bunch of email addreses you can do with what you like. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\">The first time I saw this one was around 1992. Most people didn&#8217;t even have email much less knew how it worked. 1000 scams later I thought most people would be a little wiser.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got an email from Haseeb Kahn (who I have never heard of) and several thousand of his closest friends, here is the meat of the message . . .<\/p>\n<p>When you forward this e-mail to friends, I! ntel can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}