You Still Believe In 3 Cents Per Email Forwarded?

"Dear suckers. I am just some anonymous fellow suffering from yet another generic mysterious disease and I am now writing this from the hospital bed. The doctors have said that I might grow a third breast on my forehead if I can't raise enough cash for treatment soon. Anyway, all you have to do is simple; just pass this message on to the others. AOL and Uncle Gates have suddenly become somewhat generous and have agreed to pay me 3 cents for every person who receives this email. Also, Microsoft Corp. is going to reward anyone who performs the fore mentioned act of duty. It's real, no shit. My best friend's friend's friend's uncle at first dismissed this off, but later he sent a few copies out "just in case". Two weeks later a representative from Microsoft called and presented him with a cheque totalling $24,800.25. He has since quit his job and is now fishing for sperm whales off the coast of Antartica."

If you do believe the above, and still circulate these kind of emails when you receive them, I have some rather nice stuffs to sell to you at a very "affordable" price of USD25,000 apiece. No really. I'm not gonna take advantage of your naiveness. Well if you believe that too, you've proven yourself numero uno in gullibility. It's been highlighted multiple times over and over that these things are not REAL.

Oh but some are highly ignorant (I forgive the first-timers and those who have just learnt what these things are and make a point not to repeat them) and I still cannot understand why until today they forward them. Don't they know that there is absolutely no way and no such technology to track emails? Or how about failing to understand the logic why in the first place would Bill Gates and AOL give away so much money for free?

Really, it's quite appalling (and disturbing) to see that this has even spread to other sites like Friendster. I'm sure all of you remember the "so-called" message of Friendster shutting down and to counter it a user has to send it to 10/20 (the number varies) other Friendster individuals in order to ensure the server will recognize your account as active. What a bunch of baloney. An official message from the moderators of the site even appeared on every individual's Friendster start-up main menu reassuring them that the message was a hoax and that the site will never in any way shut down or delete any accounts, provided they do not breach the rules and regulations set (that means like you setting up a porno account, you dickhead). What is wrong with people nowadays? Has evolution touched upon some people and produced freaks of nature lacking a few "smart" chromosomes or perhaps it's the age-old adage of "being born without a brain"?

People, please. Do yourselves a favor - there is this site called snopes that you can actually go and verify the truth of something - and also do me a favor; stop sending me all these inane things.