{"id":5641,"date":"2023-04-21T21:07:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T21:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2024-08-27T05:29:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:29:35","slug":"history-email-hoaxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/privacy-and-safety\/history-email-hoaxes","title":{"rendered":"No, Bill Gates won&#8217;t send you money: A history of email hoaxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main-content\" data-grid=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph-3\">The first email spam in history happened right after the invention of email. In 1978, electronic mail was still part of the Department of Defense\u2019s ARPANET project\u2014the predecessor to the Internet\u2014and programmer Gary Turk sent a notice to approximately 400 people advertising the demonstration of a new computer for his company. 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