UK Requirement part 2

If you are reading this, I suggest that you read my previous post "UK Requirement part 1" and come back to this.

There were new developments with regard to UK requirement, which took place day before. My colleague Basu received this now famous UK requirement mail from his friend and forwarded the same to few of us at work.

The recepients of the mail were kums, Amit, Vishy, DM and me.

kums sits next to me and asked me "srikanth, what´s this?"

I told him it was a mail intended for people to have fun.

He said "It has testimonials of so may people and all the senders look genuine".

"yes, they are genuine but they were just having fun, there is no truth in that", I replied.

So kums decided to have his share of fun and replied to this mail.

"I am really surprised two days back when i was checking my bank account they deposited DKK12311. I am wondering how come they came to know that i am in Denmark and they deposited in DKK currency to my India A/C. I guess on top of tracking usage of Internet explorer they also using some GPS technology to track people from where they are using their software then they'll deposit that country currency.
Do not miss this great opportunity.
It is also Tax free income :-) "

DKK stands for danish krone,the currency of Denmark, where kums and I are located presently.

To corroborate kums theory, I did my part.

"hey kums, how come you got 12311DKK??? I got only 12000DKK. Again, they have transferred money through western money transfer. how did they transfer to your account?
Its a great opportunity and all of us should make use of it.
guys, go for it."

Upon reading mails from two of his good friends at work Amit was in two minds whether or not it was true.

"guys have u all gone crazy ??? ... does it work, kums ? :-) tell me for sure !
cheers
Amit"

Kums,wanting to rig big-time, replied.

"Yes Amit. But to make the authentication genuine you should use your company registered Windows OS and IE then IT should have registered this SW with MS. Normally all our laptops are using licensed SW from MS. So i guess for you too it won't be a problem like Srikanth and me.They can track from your license serial number to company and to individual. I am not sure is it a real logic or they are using some encrypt/decrypt strategies."

Check out the words like encrypt, decrypt in this post and GPS in previous post. He worked on some software implementation of GPS, no wonder he likes to use technical jargon to make it sound authentic.

But being such a nice guy which he is kums sent a mail to Amit with a cc to me

"Hi Amit, It was just continuity of kiddish mails. There is no truth in those mails.:-)
Cheers,
Kums"

Amit replied

"too much buddy :-) .. u both got me really excited bout this :-)
cheers
Amit"

But it didn´t stop here.

Suddenly Basu pitched in.

"oh man i am going mad.... i checked my account and believe me I got $875..... its just about 4 hrs i sent this mail.....its from western money transfer.....today only i will book an apartment..... all the best guys...."

And then it was vishy´s turn.

"Guys, this is really true... I forwarded this to some of my friends in the morning and now my acct has gone richer by $1321, again through western money transfer .... hurry up!!!"

To sum it up, all of us got rich in a matter of few hours.

Sometimes innocuous chain mails bring in lot of fun and invariably software geeks keep the fun floating.

As I write this, I received a call from DM and he told me that they have successfully fooled many colleagues at bangalore!!! It indeed spread like a virus.

UK Requirement part 1

software engineers are full of sense of humour contrary to what has been perceived by others. To know more read this post and the next one.

More than two months ago, a mail was posted to our class yahoo group by a classmate. I think that was her only mail in a really long time. The mail was a forward with the following transcript.

From: Sankhala, Suresh Singh
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 12:48 PM
Subject: UK Requirement
Dear Friends,Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates is sharing his fortune. If you ignore! this you will repent later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period.

For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $241.00. Within two week! s, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a cheque.

Regards.
Charles S. Bailey
General Manager Field Operations
1-800-842-2332 Ext. 1085 or
904-245-1085 or
RNX 292-1085
Charles_Bailey@csx.com


And there were many testimonials which were attached to this transcript. And these testimonials were sent by guys working at companies like iflex, patni, tcs, wipro, trident-hilton, honeywell, congnizant and a lot more.

They have also given their email id and address so that when one read it, it would give a feeling of genuineness. I have copied some testimonials for you, my favourite is the last one.

Hey dudes and dudettes.......this is truly amazing........I got $12,545 a few weeks back......it indeed works.....and hope it worksout for all of u.........for details contact me...........

I have also gotten 34271$ cheque last week for the same knid of mail.You can also try your luck

Hi,
I got $9386. Was shocked!!! This is cool.
Please forward.

I have gotten 17934$ cheque some time ago for the same kind of mail. You can also try your luck.

Dear Shivan
This is really amazing I also got 5000 dollars via DD from HDFC, thot it was fake but it really worked..........the amount has been created to my account, what did you get.
Thanks for forwarding this mail.

Hi Guys,
I got $12,101 credited with this months salary, that is why I am sending this to you guys. I am almost going mad.Planning to quit TCS and start a new company.
You guys can join hands. What to say yarr????

Hey guys !!!
this is cool
really really cooollllll
I forwarded this mail to three chaps just half an hour back and i just forgot about it..
then i saw my salary slip, checked my account in the net.
i was wonder stuck to see $30000/- added to my account !!
transferred from ms office thru western money transfer !!!
its amazing guys !!!
Go for it.
Act fast. at least before this stupid bill gates gets bankrupt..........
and in case this is true, there is not much time left.....
so congratulations in advance....
for becoming a millionair so easily...
like me......


I am trying my luck.....have got some loans!!

Part 2 in next post.