Yahoo and AOL will give one cent for e-mail

No, this is a HOAX. Why do people send out this kind of mail? (I mean, why do people start this kind of mail in the first place. I'm not referring to the people who have forwarded them to you.) It is so that, eventually, this kind of mail will be forwarded many times and will end up in the inbox of a professional email harvester. Every time it is forwarded, it collects a dozen or more email addresses (have a look at one of them the next time you get one!) and, by the time you receive it, it may have 100 or more. Professional email harvesters don't, of course, tell you what they are but they befriend people in chat-rooms, on Facebook and on other social networking sites and give out their email address asking people to forward them jokes and other such 'round robin' mails. They will copy all of the email addresses that they find in these mails, put them onto a CD and sell them to spammers. Such CDs can be worth $10 or $20 and there are 'underground' sites where such lists are offered for sale.

Hello Octav, I receive such mails, too. I can't believe that somebody would pay for creating traffic on e-mail. Why would they do that? But some of those e-mails are so heartbreaking (in fact, this is their goal, to make us become emotional, right?) that I would like to believe the life of that child can be saved with a little help from us. Well, it would be better if they asked for a donation, giving a bank account to send the money in, but... I admit sometimes I forward this kind of messages but before sending them I delete all the previous e-mail addresses from the message. I don't write the recipients addresses into the "to" field, but into the "Bcc" (blind carbon copy) field. This way, nobody will be able to collect e-mail addresses from me and to use them for spamming.

It sounds strange, coming from yahoo (or any other provider for email adresses) that they ask to send an email to all of your list, even if it's to help somebody. There are many other ways to help. Nowadays, I am very sceptic, when someone asks for help. It's not that I wouldn't help, everybody would help if the person is in the condition to do so. But, as mentioned, there are other ways to do so.

Na, I don't believe a single word of it! How could they pay without sender paying something? Ovbiously is spam and not from yahoo or AOL!

Well, I never hear about this before.you'd better searching for detail of information because I don't think yahoo did it

hey there, i dont think they will pay you because i once received this kind of email too and i have tried but nothing happened. so i think its a spam.