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Yahoo!--- Urgent

Post by ibmsystems » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:42 pm

Hi all i use yahoo messenger did anyone else get this messqage when booting up?

gunit_072003 (1/22/2006 5:00:48 PM): cuttiewitbooty018 (1/22/2006 10:27:16 AM): HEY ITS DIANNA, FROM THE DIRECTOR OF YAHOO, EVERYBODY SORRY FOR THE INTERRUPTION, BUT YAHOO IS CLOSING THE SYSTEM DOWN BECAUSE TOO MANY BOOTERS ARE TAKING UP ALL THE NAMES, WE ONLY HAVE 57 NAMES LEFT, IF U WOULD LIKE TO KEEP YOUR ACCOUNT, SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST. THIS IS NO JOKE, YOU'LL BE SORRY IF YOU DON'T SEND IT. THANKS DIRECTOR OF YAHOO, TIM BUISKI. WHOEVER DOESN'T SEND THIS MESSAGE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DEACTIVATED AND IT WILL COST YOU $10.00 A MONTH TO USE IT. TO SEND TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR GROUP THEN CLICK SEND--- and don't send dis bac to me [Offline Message (Mon Jan 30 13:36:46 2006)] [Offline Message (Mon Jan 30 21:48:42 2006)]

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Post by Andrew » Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:53 pm

These yahoo scam messages have been around for a bazillion years - they're obviously fake.
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Post by ibmsystems » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:56 pm

Thanks-- I email yahoo! and they said they are fake

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Post by bdude » Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:22 am

and any yahoo! official messenger would not be written in all caps and the username would not be 'cuttiewithbootie'
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Post by Peachey-Notloggedin » Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:17 am

how about to send the person that message like 800 times and teach them a lesson. Muhahaha
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Post by ibmsystems » Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:57 pm

he he lol i'm WAY ahead of ya in two area's

One i already have- so i'm ahead of ya there
Two i send it about 1000 times- so WAY ahead of ya there :P

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Post by ChrisKraus » Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:29 pm

How is it possible to figure out that there is only 57 alphanumeric username combinations left? Who spends that much time on that?

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