I received the same message from my Dad. About five minutes later a second message from my Dad with the URL:
http://snopes.simplenet.com/spoons/faxlore/billgate.htm
It looks like another hoax.
Beth Youngdale
Baylor Law Library
On 8/25/98, Mary G Persyn wrote:
>I just received this message from a relative. It had a >bunch of headers on it. It sounds like a new variation on >the Bill Gates' email tracker system myth, but I have been >unable to identify this particular myth at any of the >internet urban myth sites I checked. I did find the Bill >Gates' email myth however.
>
>Has anyone seen this one?
>
>Mary
>
>
>snip
>
>Sort through the header stuff.. Walt Disney appears to have something of
>an offer going !
>
>snip
>> >> What the heck... If this is true, it could be interesting..
>> Read the bottom part....
>> >> Thanks,
>> Tob
>> >> > Subject: Fw: Walt Disney World or $5,000
>
>Apparently this is true and worth a shot!!!
>
>> >> >> >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >> >> >Folks,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >I called Disney my damn self. It's no lie. GET IT DONE! You
>> >> all
>> >> >> owe me.
>> >> >>
>> >>
>>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>+
>> >> >> +++>>
>> >> >> >>>Disney message & $5,000.00
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>If you read below you will see the note from Walt
>> >> >> >>>Disney Jr. & Management at Disney World.
>> >> >> >>>Basically if this messages reaches 13,000 people,
>> >> >> >>>everyone will receive $5,000.00 or a free, all expenses paid,
>> >> trip
>> >> >> to
>> >> >> >>Disney >World in anytime during the summer of 1999.
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>See the note below - its worth it!!!!
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>Everyone is to resend to 15 individuals.
>> >> >> >>>Please read and forward to as many friends as
>> >> >> >>>possible...we've checked up on
>> >> >> >>>this and this is no joke of a chain letter or something
>> >> >> >>>if this reaches 13,000 people...duplicate entries don't
>> >> >> >>>count, though...So, please help & pass on...
>> >> >> >>>thank you, and here you go!!!
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>WALT DISNEY JR.
>> >> >> >>>GREETING
>> >> >> >>>Hello Disney fans,
>> >> >> >>> And thank you for signing up for Bill Gates' Beta
>> >> >> >>>Email Tracking
>> >> >> >>>My name is Walt Disney Jr.
>> >> >> >>>Here at Disney we are working with Microsoft which has 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 13,000 people, 1,300 of
>> >> the
>> >> >> people =
>> >> >> >on
>> >> >> >>the >list will receive $5,000, and the rest will receive a
>free
>> >> trip
>> >> >> for
>> >> >> >>two
>> >> >> >>>to Disney World for one week during the summer of 1999
>> >> >> >>>at our expense. Enjoy.
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Note: Duplicate entries will not be counted. You will
>> >> >> >>>be notified by email with further instructions once this
>email
>> >> >> >>>has reached 13,000 people.
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>Your friends,
>> >> >> >>>Walt Disney Jr., Disney, Bill Gates, & The Microsoft
>> >> >> >>>Development Team.
>
>-----------------------------------------
>Mary Persyn (219) 465-7830
>Email: Mary.Persyn@valpo.edu
>Law Librarian
>School of Law
>Valparaiso University
>Valparaiso, IN 46383
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>
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