I did it once, and I was never paid, I received it several times since that and just deleted it. I think somebody is using that scamA confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; to harvest email address. I don't know how it's done, but I think there is something fishy about it.

That's an interesting point you made there! It's quite possible that someone is extracting the emails from the forwarded email and perhaps spamming them or selling them as leads to online businesses. The letter , if you remember, explains in some detail how Microsoft will use it's softwares to track the forwarded emails for calculating how much you have earned through them for forwarding it.

If this is true then Microsoft could have gone bankrupt paying all the people who have forwarded that message. Anything that has money in it is very tempting to do especially when you have to do can be done in seconds.

Ahh, good ol chainmails. They have existed since before the internet, and probably will never go away.

They are annoying and frequently insulting to the readers intelligence.

Maybe if we were all still in junior high, some more people may have bought into it.

The only chainletter I ever liked was the one that insulted chainletters.

I never understood the point of this one, it just didn't make sense. But now that I read this I have to wonder. It could very well be a way to harvest emails for future spam attacks.

There doesn't seem to be anything else to it.

When I recieved this one I went right over to snopes website - it's an urban legend site and it confirmed it was a hoax. I hate chain letters. Anything that tells me to pass it on or I'll have bad luck for 7 years or whatnot just annoys me endlessly!

O don't worry, its been going on for longer than you have heard of it. Sadly, this one seems to hit up a good deal during the holiday time. It surprise me right now *knock on wood* that I have yet received it, then again there is a day and 1/2 till the end of year too.

This is one that has always baffled me. I just never understood how people could really fall for this one. It seems obvious to me that nobody is going to pay you for anything.

I never forward them. It seemed too good to be true. Beside like one of you stated Microsoft would have gone bankrupt had this been through. There were a lot of emails!!

I think it has been going on longer than just three years if not then someone brought it back from the dead and copied a good chunk of it today.