Will I really get paid if I forward that email about Microsoft?

Will I really get paid if I forward that email about Microsoft?

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With virtual world scams, you may have been one of the many people who have received an email from a friend, very excited by the fact that Microsoft and AOL have teamed up and if you forward this email to 1 of your friends, for the benefit of Microsoft being able to monitor how many people get this email and use it, you're going to get a really big check. No. That's not going to happen, it's not a possibility. What actually this email states can't even be achieved technically, and there's absolutely no benefit to AOL or to Microsoft for this information that they would apparently get. So, this Microsoft email is a harmless scam, but a scam nonetheless. It can't be achieved technically because the systems everything goes through are not sophisticated enough to accurately tag every person it's been to. Additionally, on a computer network, you're not identified by you a person, you're a number. Therefore this virtual world email scam just can't really be done.