Who is Charles S Bailey?

This scam has been going around for a while now. It eventually reaches the inboxes of thousands of email users. When the money doesnt arrive, a lot of them will send an email to Charles S Bailey (genuine email address), probably causing his company's server to shutdown. Another form of online vandalism!!!

The Money From Microsoft giveaway hoax is one of the most prevalent email hoaxes on the Internet. There are a number of versions of this hoax, all claiming that Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates, will give away money or other benefits in exchange for forwarding emails. In spite of thorough public debunking over several years, people continue to forward these silly emails in the vain hope that Bill will share his fortune.

This aging hoax is still circulating and apparently still convincing email recipients all around the planet that Bill Gates and AOL will send them a stack of money simply for passing on an email. The only way to "track" such an email would be to embed some sort of hidden code in the email. Even if Bill did decide that "sharing his fortune" was something that he wanted to do, I'm pretty confident he wouldn't go about it in this way. In any case, tracking an email in the way described would raise all sorts of privacy issues. There have been several hoax emails that refer to this email tracking concept, all of them equally nonsensical.

This one, and all of its mutant siblings should be sent directly to the trash bin.

Record producer Charles Bailey attended the February 2003 anti-war protest marches in Hyde Park, London, one of a worldwide series of protests against the then looming war in Iraq.

Bailey says that hearing member of Parliament Tony Benn's words sent a shiver down his spine and gave him the idea of approaching Benn with the idea for a disc called Tony Benn’s Greatest Hits.

Benn then sent him a selection of speeches that had been professionally recorded in the House of Commons. Benn said "Bailey hasn't amended them". Benn's authoritative voice booms across a D'Angelo-esque backing track, complete with melodic violins and tinkling piano accompaniment.

Bailey said, "Tony Benn touched me with his speech about the Iraq War in Hyde Park. The only times I ever felt like that before, was when Bob Marley sang at Crystal Palace, and when Mandela came to Brixton."

"I am trying to make politics interesting for people who don't usually vote."

Sounds too good to be true, must be some kind of scam.

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