Scoring Hoaxes

[Eric Toll <et...@vipstructures.com>]

A user on the net did get the following:
 
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
AOLare running an e-mail beta test
When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track
it (If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks time period.
For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay
you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on,
<snip>
 
This one has been going around for a few years....
Anyone care to share anti-hoax rules.
 
 
TiA
Eric
 

Re: Scoring Hoaxes

[Steve Thomas <li...@sthomas.net>]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:21:02PM -0400, Eric Toll is rumored to have said:
>  
> 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
> AOLare running an e-mail beta test
> When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track
> it (If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks time period.
> For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay
> you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on,
> <snip>
>  
> This one has been going around for a few years....
> Anyone care to share anti-hoax rules.


bayes

"sharing his fortune"
"forward this e-mail"
"Microsoft will pay"

I'm sure some meta rules could be created using the above phrases. Probably others, too.

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