The 'Bill Gates Hoax'

Email message:

 FROM: GatesBeta@microsoft.com
ATTACH: Tracklog@microsoft.com/Track883432/~TraceActive/On.html

Hello Everyone,

And thank you for signing up for my Beta Email Tracking
Application or (BETA) for short. My name is Bill Gates.
Here at Microsoft we have just compiled an  e-mail tracing
program that tracks everyone to whom this message is
forwarded to. It does this through an unique IP
(Internet Protocol)address log book database.

We are experimenting with this and need your help.
Forward this to everyone you know and if it reaches
1000 people everyone on the list you will receive $1000
and a copy of Windows98 at my expense.
Enjoy.

Note: Duplicate entries will not be counted. You will be
notified by email with further instructions once this email
has reached 1000 people. Windows98 will not be shipped until
it has been released to the general public.

Your friend,
Bill Gates & The Microsoft Development Team.


The above chain letter claiming to be from the office of the chief
executive of  Microsoft Corporation has been circulating the
Internet since November 1997. Although there are 'plenty plenty'
special variants, they all claim to be from Bill Gates and merely
ask the receiver to forward the letter to other people.
If an attachment comes with this message, it is recommend you
delete it at once, and not take any unnecessary chances 
with attachments from unknown sources. More palava to come....