Bill Gates + Ashley Flores

I received two very old emails today. Well, the emails were new but the subjects were old. One about Bill Gates sharing his fortune, and the other was trying to find a missing girl. Yes, you guessed it – both hoaxes. The Gates email I think is circa 1999 and the Flores one was a prank from May ’06.

I always get these emails from good friends of mine, and I am always listed along with 10-50 other people. And it really sucks being a security person because I have to craft an email that doesn’t embarrass my buddies and yet stops the madness. Of course, I guess I don’t really have to stop the madness. I think in a lot of cases, these folks simply don’t care that much. I am compelled to make a stand in support of proper "law and order" on the ‘Net, anyway. And be seen as just a little more of a jerk by my friends who could care less about this kind of stuff.

5 comments for “Bill Gates + Ashley Flores

  1. Marie
    April 27, 2007 at 3:22 am

    SICK,SICK,SICK.
    I received the story about Ashley Flores today and felt very sad for her and her family.
    However, I decided to check it out further.
    Now all I feel is anger and discuss. What sickos!

  2. Riley
    April 29, 2007 at 5:10 pm

    yea, me too. i got it one day and at first i believed it but you never know what things are true right? so i looked her name up on the internet and got all this crap on how it is some big hoax. right, what marie said, sick is all you can say.

  3. jason
    April 30, 2007 at 5:07 am

    hey i gt the message bwt the lil girl 2day and found this site afta goooglein her name i dnt no why i did it jst seemd odd so i reaserched it seems this is a hoax i feel dead guilty now afta sending it to all 79 contacts of mine wot a dope

  4. KATARINA
    May 19, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    Same here..for the first time i decided to check it further..of course its a hoax…from now i will always check any forwards before i send it to more people.

  5. Jess
    July 19, 2007 at 10:42 am

    yeah that thing bout Ashley Flores has been on myspace for the past year now….. i can’t believe someone would do someting like that to one of their friends!

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