Has anyone else got this email?!? I don't know what to do?

Its definately a spam email. However, what you can do is to forward this email to MS support center and let them do their job.

It's a scam, pure and simple. Microsoft does not track what you forward. This has been around forever and has several versions with sometimes another company supposed to pay.

Never open a suspicious link or give a password in e-mail. Never open mail you aren't sure of, period. And you might want to run your virus check to be sure you didn't get one. Be glad you didn't get suckered into calling a number that costs $50 a minute, too.

Check out nonsense like this at:

http://www.snopes.com/ .

Yahoo! will tell you whether or not their e-mails are legit. Sometimes I've seen warnings from them concerning this very thing. Instead of asking us through Yahoo!, why don't you contact the companies involved and get *their* take on it? They might not even be aware of it and if it's a scam, they'll be able to address it for you. Whatever it is, don't send anyone money you don't know!

It's a chainletter. aka junk mail. the way to deal with that is simply delete it & forget about it. By passing it on, you are just passing spam on to your friends & relatives. Nobody likes to get that sort of mail. Remember: if it sounds too good to be true, it is! Furthermore, there is no way for them to track you & send you money. Why do you think Gates wants to send you his money? LOL, By the way, that exact email has been passed around for at least 6 years. Those & the ones similar to it are just lies. Don't believe it. No bad luck will happen to you if you don't forward it to everyone you know.

The whole wide world got this mail and many added it to their junk / blocked mail folder.

Every other person who forwarded me this mail and who I know are still waiting for the first check from Microsoft.

Maybe takes time for Uncle Bill to sign the checks??

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.asp

No, you're not going to be receiving money, merchandise, or free trips from Bill Gates (or anyone else), no matter how many people you forward this message to. Tracing all recipients of an e-mail message is not yet technically possible, and even if it were, Bill Gates certainly wouldn't be testing software that performed such tracking by blindly sending messages out to the Internet with a promise of financial reward to the recipients.

The number didn't work in your area because it is a fake.

Microsoft is not in the computer business to give you or any random person money.

Trust me. You can forward this straight to Bill Gates and never see a cent from it.

Its is just another in a very, and I mean very, long list of scams over the internet.

This is a total scam. Check out snopes.com. What I did is put in my browser "Microsoft and AOL paying for beta tests" and several links came up exposing the scam. Don't even bother calling them. Lord only knows what they will want from you.

Trash mail. Frankly I don't even bother to open every single email that comes in my inbox. Just from those I know or the newsletters I've requested for.

Mails like the one you got are spam. If they have attachments to be downloaded DON'T cos' it could be a virus.

Any e'mail you get that you aren't sure of, go to:

http://snopes.com/

then find something unique in your e'mail such as "Charles S Bailey" type this in the search at snopes and you will see if it legitimate or not.

This is obviously a hoax. I even found it on snopes for you at http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/microsoft-ao...