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Wired finds origin of the "Bill Gates" e-mail hoax

Just saw this in this month's Wired magazine, and the article's now online. Thanks to some excellent detective work, the origins of the infamous "Bill Gates is going to give you money" e-mail hoax has been found.

Posted by Jake on 06/30/04 @ 04:57 PM
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narges said on 11/26/04 @ 08:02 PM:
iam looking for mr bill gate and mrs linda email address i need to talk to them .

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