Hotmail Chainmail

[TheDave]

looky what i just got under a list of about 8 screens of e-mail adresses. has anyone else here got it and whats the point? all i can think of is to harvest adresses, i aint passing it on

Subject :
Fwd: MSN IS GOING!!! (please read dont ignore it guys)

Date :
Sun, 04 May 2003 14:53:24 +0000

READ THE PARAGRAPH IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR HOTMAIL ACCOUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Dear Hotmail User,

Because of the sudden rush of people signing up to

Hotmail,it has come to our attention that we are vastly

running

out of resources. So, within a month's time, anyone who

does not

receive this email with the exact subject heading, will be

deleted off our server.Please forward this email so that

we know

you are still using this account.

WARNING WARNING

We want to find out which users are actually using their

Hotmail

accounts. So if you are using your account, please pass

this

e-mail to every Hotmail user that you can and if you do

not pass

this letter to anyone we will delete your account.



From Mr. Jon Henerd

Hotmail Admin. Dept.


Our hotmail system is getting to crowded!! We need you to forward this to at least 20 people. I know this seems like a large number, but we need to find out who is really using their account. If you do not send this to at least 10 Hotmail members, we will delete your account. Sorry for this inconvenience.

_________________________________________________________________
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[Guillaume]

Are people still falling for that kind of shi...er... spam?

[TheDave]

UH-OH i think its a virus the person who sent me it just told me they cant log onto msn

[Proper Bo]

I love it when people try to do things like this and some fools believe they're real!
You'd think the people doing them would at least take the time to make sure they sound real! That is clearly fake. If they were to ever do something like that for real, you'd get an email from "Hotmail Staff" anyway.

[crazy_billy_bats]

oh well......

nowt gonna happen

[Tyke]

"we are vastly running out of resources"

erm.. "We are rapidly running out of resources" would be better

"will be deleted off our server"

....."Will be deleted from our server"

"Please forward this email"
....."Please reply to this email" would be the more appropriate action should a genuine mail of this nature ever need to be sent.

"So if you are using your account, please pass this e-mail to every Hotmail user that you can and if you do not pass this letter to anyone we will delete your account." - WTF?? Poor punctuation, too much rambling

See what I'm getting at? A genuine mail from an organisation like hotmail would usually be structured better, with better (not necessarily correct&#33 grammar. People who are conned by such poor attempts at faking an official mail really astound me. Do they not read things like this through before responding?

At least the old AOL account/ credit card number stealing scam took the user to what appeared to be an official AOL page. THAT was a well-executed scam.

oh and NO, I'm not on AOL (just had to clear that up&#33