Days ago I got an email with subject head: UK Requirement, from my cousin. The mail was a part of a long forwarded message asking to send the same to as many people as possible and you might get some rewards from Microsoft. There were many comments from people claiming to be working in well known MNCs that they got money for the same. After going through it for 15 mins, I thought why not try luck for myself. But I had very few list of email ids of my friends or relatives. So I thought the best I can do is to copy-paste the email ids of all the people from where this mail had been forwarded. As I was about to do it, I thought it would be dangerous and God Knows if there were any IT laws that will result in me behind the bars. So I opened up the Gods gift to netlings--GOOGLE. I searched for UK requirement. Was unlucky and couldn't find any site leading to the mail I got. After few other tries, I entered Microsoft mail. And voila I got a few sites about Microsoft Mail Hoax and Virus Busters etc.. I came to know that the same variant(mail) is been running in the net since 1997 and it is a hoax mail. Even there are warnings regarding the same put up at the Microsoft site. And I was depressed that I came to know just hours back. I thought why it took such a long time for the mail to start off in my country. At that point I was going through Google News and the answer was there : Bill Gates in India.
Here are the links regarding the above mentioned information:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/hoaxes.mspx
http://www.k7computing.com/Hoaxes/msemtrk.htm
Also there is some interesting fact about the mail. The link is provide below:
http://virusbusters.itcs.umich.edu//hoaxes/mstrak.html
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