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    • Creastery on Tue 19 May 2009
    • 12:56:05 PM UTC

    Puzzling Question...

    Quite long ago and also recently, i received a forwarded email from my friends.

    Below is the content:
    This is Tara and John, the directors of MSN. We would like to sincerely apologize for the interruption, but msn is closing down. We know many of these messages have been sent out lately, and that they wouldn't be true. However, this one is in fact true, and it will occur soon.

    MSN will begin to charge you money soon. This is due to the fact that too many inconsiderate people are taking up all the names (ie. making up lots of different accounts for just one person). Therefore, we only have 578 names left. If you would like to close your account, DO NOT SEND THIS MESSAGE ON. We would not reccommend this, because if in the future you'd like to use MSN, and you don't send this message on, you will be CHARGED to use MSN monthly. If you would like to keep your account, then SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. As we said this before, this is no joke, and we will be shutting down the servers. Please send it on. We do not want to be receiving phone calls stating that your MSN will not open, or that you are being charged for using it - because this will be your fauly for not sending it on. The estimated cost for MSN monthly will be about ten dollars CAN.

    SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. NOW YOU
    KNOW WHAT TO DO.

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR
    ATTENTION. In case you believed this is yet another of those 'prank' MSN shut down emails, go to:

    http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 1/hi/business/ 1189119.stm

    Once you've sent this message to at least 18 contacts, your msn icon will become blue.

    Regards,
    Tara and John
    (Directors and Operators of MSN.com, Hotmail, Windows Live Hotmail, etc)
    -END- (I wrote this myself..not included in email.)

    I am sure that this is 100% A JOKE EMAIL!
    Reasons: Please visit http://erraticramblings.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/m...

    What is written in there is quite true.
    1 more thing to point out is...don't you find it funny and rediculous?
    Why would Windows Live Team want their users to help then spread the word when they could simply just write newsletters to everyone to inform us.

    I find it really funny. Almost all my contacts forwarded the email to me....
    *LOL-ing in progress...do not disturb*

    Thank you and best regards, Creastery (Currently retired from WOT) TechAirlines

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    • YoKenny on Tue 19 May 2009
    • 02:46:31 PM UTC

    Internet hoaxes, email rumors and urban legends

    Internet hoaxes, email rumors and urban legends
    http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blxmisc.htm

    New twist on old hoax.
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    • Creastery on Tue 19 May 2009
    • 02:50:04 PM UTC

    WOW...

    That's quite a lot of sites of hoaxes etc eh. Will look into it soon. Thanks!

    Thank you and best regards,

    Creastery
    Developer of TechAirlines

    I have currently retired from WOT.
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    • cotojo on Tue 19 May 2009
    • 03:18:08 PM UTC

    SCAM

    That one has been around several times in various guises, and is a 'prank MSN shut down email'
    It often links to another site that will take users login details and then infect their contacts via 'pic of you online' downloads etc

    Colin
    http://freepcsecurity.co.uk
    "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it" - Winston Churchill
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      • Creastery on Tue 19 May 2009
      • 03:18:56 PM UTC

      I know...

      I have been spam by so many of my friends...i should say they are fools.

      Thank you and best regards,

      Creastery
      Developer of TechAirlines

      I have currently retired from WOT.
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        • BobJam (not verified) on Tue 19 May 2009
        • 05:39:42 PM UTC

        Reply

        Send this to your friends that forwarded this nonsense hoax to you:

        "“If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove will bomb your head at 5:00 PM (EST) this afternoon
        and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next-door neighbor's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician! Honest.”        "
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          • phantazm on Tue 19 May 2009
          • 06:18:49 PM UTC

          The Dove is Real

          The Dove

          This awfull Dove is Real! I've seen it! Here it is! (Look up..!)
          Photographs never lie, right..?

          However, "Camels" are mythological creatures only found in fairytales. Don't believe in camel-mails. Camels do not exist (and they rarely hide under your bed). Do not believe in things that 'go hump in the night'...
          ;-)
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    • phantazm on Tue 19 May 2009
    • 03:40:44 PM UTC

    This is not a joke..?

    I would hesitate to trust a message (or a site) that repeatedly states that "This is not a joke". Hoaxes already know that their message is hard to believe, and thus tries to disarm suspicions. Remember:

    If something sounds to good to be true, it usually is.
    If something sounds to strange to be true, it usually is.

    Anyway, if I recieved something I wasn't sure of, I would google it:
    most likely other people have already responded to the fake...
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      • Creastery on Tue 19 May 2009
      • 04:42:22 PM UTC

      Sure i Will

      I always do so.

      Thank you and best regards,

      Creastery
      Developer of TechAirlines

      I have currently retired from WOT.
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    • g7w on Tue 19 May 2009
    • 10:47:55 PM UTC

    this is not a joke

    Pass this on to alteast 7 people in your address book.

    Starting August 01, 2009 Facebook will be offering a "pro" paid service which is basically the same as you have now, if you are a current Facebook member. The free version, free as in free speech, not free beer, will reduce the bandwidth allowance to 100Kb per day. This has been decided upon by Facebooks new owner, Yahoo - you can read about the recent purchase here Yahoo needs to increase it's revenue and with Facebook added to it's assets, it should net a fair profit for the ailing company.
    -------
    Against Intuition - gives us safety through Web of Trust.
    WOT Community - gives us security through unity.
    Thank you all
    G7W {G.O.M}
    http://g7w.net/
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    • Creastery on Wed 20 May 2009
    • 02:21:37 AM UTC

    *LOL*

    It's like this and i got an email telling me that i won 500,000 pounds and must reply with my personal information...LOL
    As if I really care.

    Thank you and best regards,

    Creastery
    Developer of TechAirlines

    I have currently retired from WOT.
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    • Shamash on Thu 21 May 2009
    • 04:23:46 AM UTC

    Meanwhile, in South America...

    Yesterday I received a message saying: "Microsoft and AOL are now the world's biggest e-mail company. To prove that they created the "E-mail Beta net-Test". Send this to every contact in your mail list and you'll receive US$ 254,00 for each sent. I didn't believed in such, but after a week my account had US$ 98.430,00! Only Bill Gates can make these extravagances. SEND TO EVERYONE!!! NOW!!!".

    What's more unbelievable: The person who wrote or the one who believes?
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    • BobJam (not verified) on Thu 21 May 2009
    • 05:21:46 AM UTC

    Urban legends and Hoaxes

    For information on these things, see the below listed links. Before forwarding emails (which is a bad practice unless you strip out all the other addresses), do your correspondent a favor and look at these first:

    1. Museum of Hoaxes - http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax

    2. Symantec - http://www.symantec.com/norton/security_response/t...

    3. Sophos - http://www.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/

    4. About.com/Urban Legends - http://urbanlegends.about.com/

    5. Break the Chain org - http://www.breakthechain.org/index.html

    6. Hoax Slayer - http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mail-server-report-hoax...

    And the grandaddy of them all:

    SNOPES - http://www.snopes.com/
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      • Creastery on Thu 21 May 2009
      • 05:40:39 AM UTC

      Nice stuff

      If it is that easy to earn money, i rather do it everyday...xD

      Thank you and best regards,

      Creastery
      Developer of TechAirlines

      I have currently retired from WOT.
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    • Delan Azabani on Thu 21 May 2009
    • 11:24:50 AM UTC

    LOL at the people who

    LOL at the people who thought hotmail would go along with it.

    Get this - only idiots would believe it. It is a real BBC article, but it relates to 2001, and if you didn't read it, you wouldn't notice that it says:

    "[Caption] Microsoft says that its hotmail service will still be free

    Microsoft is reportedly planning to start charging surfers for the improved services of its MSN internet portal. "

    LOL misunderstanding of article.
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    • FinalMapler on Fri 22 May 2009
    • 01:49:26 AM UTC

    Lol

    I received that email too!
    Like... 1 year ago. LOL... I can´t belive it still exists!
    That demostrates that a lot of people is stupid in the Internet xD <-- Don´t blame me for that : (

    --- I will finish with all those bad websites, and NOONE WILL STOP ME! --- WOT Gold Level Member ---
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    • Creastery on Wed 27 May 2009
    • 10:49:11 AM UTC

    Just received another junk mail...

    The National Lottery,
    P O Box 1010,
    Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
    (Customer Services)

    Winning Notification:

    We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer
    balloting held on the 25th May, 2009. This is a Scientific Computer
    Game in which email addresses were used. It is a promotional program
    aimed at encouraging internet users; Meaning, you do not need to buy
    ticket to enter for it.

    Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 74454774 with serial
    number 144-66584 drew the lucky numbers: 5-21-23-34-61-72 (Bonus
    ball) which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.
    You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £916,778.00
    (Nine hundred and Sixteen thousand,seven hundred and seventy eight
    pounds sterling only).

    1.Full Names:
    2.Contact Address:
    3.Ticket Number
    4.Serial Number:
    5.Email Address:
    6.Telephone Number:

    You are advice to contact your Claims Personnel of the UK Verification
    Department with your above informations for Processing of your Claims.

    Name: Mr. Wayne Wright
    Email Address: ukverificationdept@mailier.com

    Congratulations!
    Cordially,

    Mrs. Lucy Baines,
    Online Co-ordinator.

    -LOL - It's real fake...-

    Thank you and best regards,

    Creastery
    Developer of TechAirlines

    I have currently retired from WOT.
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    • LiVeRpUdLiAn932 on Wed 27 May 2009
    • 03:56:19 PM UTC

    Almost 35....

    I have recieved almost 35 spam messages and use them as a mini spam library....and almost half of them have URGENT in caps in their titles. LOL. One of them I like the most, simple and straightforward:
    I work with Euro Lottery,I need your assistance for a transfer of 4,528,000 GBP,you just have to register online,
    due to my position in the company I can make it happen that you would be a winner of the above stated
    amount.contact dr.williamedward@j-mail.info Regards,William Edward
    Also, there was once my friends and I were bored and in school so we decided to take advantage of the school computers to go onto known spam sites and fool around. The spam sites would ask for our emails, and we would go through our mini directory of spam mails and randomly seed out an email. I haven't tested the effects of what would happen, but my guess is that both spam emails would be spamming each other to bits. LOL.
    You'll Never Walk Alone
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    • Anonymous on Wed 27 May 2009
    • 06:34:27 PM UTC

    Good One

    I would never have thought of doing that.Spam the Spammers.LOL.(G.O.M.with Honours).