Yesterday, I came into work to find my inbox full. Well, relatively full, for me, since I don't get a lot of email at work. There has been a spam email going around the agency, one of those that promises that Bill Gates will pay you $245 per person you forward the email to. (
This one!) Well, some employee, in a fit of "intelligence," managed to
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I liked the one with the supposed Nieman-Marcus recipe for chocolate chip cookies, which at least had some lasting social value. It claimed that you were getting a copy, "keep it a secret," of a recipe that could only be had by paying $500 to Nieman Marcus for it. (The "keep it a secret" advisory did not prevent people from spamming everyone the knew with it, including the entire email last of the major firms I worked over the course of about 10-15 years.)
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I do often wonder if people sit at home, eagerly awaiting the check Bill Gates owes them. Or if anyone has ever forwarded the email to the entire address book at their workplace and then quit dramatically a minute later.
I've never received the cookie recipe email. I know of it because I used to read on Snopes a lot (read: before I discovered fandom! :^D), but that one has avoided me so far.
I really do find it disturbing that, considering the amount of responsibility some of these people have, they aren't more intelligent. Of course, I suppose this is a symptom of a nation that is considering electing for President a candidate who brags about the fact that he doesn't know how to use email.
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Sorry, I do not currently have a copy of the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe, but I still love the one for Toll-house cookies on the back of the chocolate chip package! OMG!
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Am adopting that answer! :D
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Btw, I've gotten all but one of the postcards! They came en masse today and yesterday! Mine should be arriving to you soon, judging by the pace of things, though the post office is always a mysterious entity. ;)
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I'm excited about your postcards. :-D
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I agree that if Bill Gates was interested in giving anything away, Microsoft would be open source. Then it would not only be less expensive but would probably work better to. IE might not constantly screw up my CSS layouts! ;)
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I'm glad others see the humor in it, though. That's the good thing about LJ friends!
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