Microsoft hoax continues

World — 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.
 
The following sites will clearly show that the same "hoax mail" has been travelling around the world for almost 10 years already:

www.hoax-slayer.com
www.urbanlegends.about.com