I thought I had answered that before, sorry for the delay, was kinda away.

1. No way, there is not way some one gets paid by Yahoo or AOL, if there was some, would people go to work..? And such news would be greatly discussed online, nothing as of now. So no luck

2. You can take it for granted. If there is something like that, the popular blogs would be discussing it already. See, if there was anything like that, people would be heavily searching for it. And the big sites would really love to trap the Search traffic, so it would be there anyway..

Simple logic, I think its fair..

There was one more thing in my letter at the end, probably didn’t capture your attention: the cover story mentioned in that hoax letter, was a typical one, known by me and others for years. BUT I didn’t succeed to contact Yahoo to get some official answer regarding this kind of sponsorizations. They have a “Help” site, “Report abuse” site etc, but no living person to talk with .. or some e-mail address, other than those for “Important Press people” ..

Let me ask once again:

1. Is there such a thing: to get paid by Yahoo and/or AOL, for some sent e-mails?
2. I know it sounds crazy, but if somebody like me is trying hard to obtain this little piece of information and did not receive an onest NO in some official way, what are we expecting from the wide majority?

So: a clue is needed. What to do and how to obtain these kind of informations from Yahoo & AOL, wich (I know very well) do not sponsorise no foundations or individuals in this way; from Siemens and Nokia, who will never give you cellphones for a number of forwarded sms-es; from Bill Gates himself, who has no intention to give you n x 10.000 USD for your forwarded e-mails etc.

I know you can’t combat this way all the species of hoax, but a website containing a collection of answers would be great! I’m allways trying to stop nearby people to act fullish when they receive chain letters, but only with a “limited” success.

No one but spammers earn by forwarding emails, Sad that they are costing the world a lot of money. Evil spammers.

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Cheers…

Congrats for your site!

I agree with all what you wrote about responsible e-mailing. Actually, I forward very few things, and in most of the cases, I delete the accumulated address list from the message body.
From the very beginning, i consider any letter that requests to be forwarded and nothing else, with no real contacts given – such as tel/fax number, address, thorough presentation of the case – a hoax.
However, if there is a minor probability that the presented case is real, I used to investigate Until now, in only one of this kind of investigations, I discovered that it was a real claim for help! But even in that case, the initial problem was solved couple of weeks, or even a month ago. These kind of e-mail are moving forward for years, nobody stops them.

Today I received a “100% hoax”, but I wanted to check. The cover story: “the foundation wich support my operation gets 0.01 cent from Yahoo & AOL” for each e-mail sent”. I spent hours to contact Yahoo to get an official answer regarding this matter. I even asked this on Yahoo Answers, but no useful answer until now.

Evil people! Stop them. No one gets anything by forwarding emails or SMS, if someone has to earn, he has to work hard

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