Classic chain mail

[alkatran]

This is the first like this I've gotten.. the sad thing is it came from my girlfriend.. poor gullible people

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.

Sincerely, Director of Hotmail Services

Aaron Lopez

Please do this! Some of my friends have already gotten deleted and you aren't allowed to send it back to the person who sent this email to you!!!

Jeez, This argument is ROCK SOLID. I mean, I can't see any holes at all! Obviously the best strategy for determining active accounts is a chain letter, and not just CHECKING WHO LOGGED IN!!!! Clearly the fact that the number of people I need to forward to changes from one sentence to the next is a simple typo, those always happen in HIGHLY IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS!!!
And obviously the fact that "fwd:" gets added to the subject heading everytime doesn't invalidate the second sentence...

Come to think of it, this could actually be something from microsoft...

[Ideas Man]

Yeah i'm sure report it to Microsoft, there is a option there that says report message, then they can deal with it.

[mendhak]

VBForums is going to become a paid service!! In order to continue using it for free you must forward this thread to 20 people you know and place a link to it in your signature!
Hurry! Do it now before it's too late!

[KayJay]

You may make your payments by forwarding your CC number to me by Private Message. Do not forget to include your PIN.

By Order

[MartinLiss]

Originally posted by mendhak
VBForums is going to become a paid service!! In order to continue using it for free you must forward this thread to 20 people you know and place a link to it in your signature!
Hurry! Do it now before it's too late!

You almost have it right! How did you know, did one of the other moderators (Jamie???) tell you? Since you have it half right I might as well tell you what's going on. Yes we are going to turn this into a paid service, but there is no need to tell anyone else. There will be a sticky created when we are ready to implement. Currently we are thinking of charging 2 cents (or tuppence in England) per post. It will be called "Putting in your two cents worth".

[Pc_Madness]

Originally posted by alkatran
does not

receive this email with the exact subject heading, will be

deleted off our server.

No wonder they're running out of space, they only have 1 server to +3million people!