Instant Messenger HOAXES (Don't fall for them) Report them!

Hoaxes used to be just by e-mail (you know, Bill Gates is giving away money for the most e-mails sent...etc..) Dont fall for these. Below are some prime examples. The real purpose is to slow down the messenger services and cause PANIC!

"HOAX" messages are not 'TRUE' so don't believe any of these and never do what they ask you to do!! Aside from upsetting everyone, they spread fear/panic and slow down services, if you have questions about a potential hoax not listed here, E-Mail it to me or you can reach me on the following messenger networks: AIM: DoShelp, ICQ: 6739033, Yahoo: DoShelp

Hoax Samples

Hey...how are you doing? I hope everything is alright. I wanted to show you this. Right click on the the group name of your buddy list and click send message to all. Then copy this info and send it to alll the people in this group. A new type of buddy list will appear after you send it. The buddy list will tell you exactly where someone is, who they are talking to, and if they have more then one screen name and if so it tells you what they are....Cool huh??? It even tells you who is invivsible ( sorry to send this to those who cannot stand it!! i hate getting dis stuff too, so get over it!)

HEY IT'S MIKE C, 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 CLOSE YOUR ACCOUNT, DONT SEND THIS MESSAGE, IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR ACCCOUNT, SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST. THIS IS NO JOKE, YOU'LL BE SORRY IF YOU DONT SEND IT. THANKS DIRECTOR OF YAHOO, TIM BUISKI, WHOEVER DOESNT SEND THIS MESSAGE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DEACTIVATED AND IT WILL COST $10.00 A MONTH TO USE IT. TO SEND TO EVERYONE ONE YOUR LIST RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR GROUP THEN CLICK SEND

sorry everybody, I hate this message too, but I don't want to get my account shut down and it has already happened . Yahoo is shutting down on August 17th. They want to get rid of free messenger. If you delete this and don't pass it on, your name will be deleted. A lot of people have already been deleted. Right click on the group name of your buddy list and click , ' Send Instant Message to all in group." each person you send it to will count as a petition........Sorry yall I dont want to take this risk....

America online staff is planning to take away IM by July
18th, 2005. If you want to keep our IM free of charge, send this email to everyone you know. It will be used as a petition. Each person you send this to counts as one "signature" If this petition gets 100,000 signatures they will keep AOL IM.

If they do not receive 100,000 votes you will have to pay 15.00 to have IM (per month). If you don't care about this then please for everyone's
sake help out a little. Thanks

THIS IS SOOOO SCARY!!! SEND THIS TO 15 PPL IN THE NEXT 143 MIN AND THEN PRESS F6 AND YOUR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR IN BIG LETTERS!!! IT IS SOOOO SCARY CUZ IT WORKS...BUT IF YOU BREAK THE CHAIN...YOU WILL BE CURSED WITH RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS! SEND IT TO 15 PPL IN THE NEXT 143 MIN!

if chintan1231in@yahoo.co.in adds you don't accept it. It's a virus. Tell everyone on ur bulletin because if somebody on ur list adds them, u get the virus too. Tell everyone on your list not to open anything from chintan. It is a hard drive killer and a very horrible virus. Pass this letter to everyone on your buddy list. Right click on the group name of your buddy list and click Send Message to All ...I received this message from a friend in 321 chat ..

Yahoo anunta inchiderea conturilor de mail gratuite ! Pentru a-ti pastra contul trimite acest mesaj la toata lista ta de utilizatori. In caz contrar vei pierde adresa ta de mail in 48 de ore ! Yahooooooooo..sa trimt..si yo..! ca si ajea n`am ce sa fak..

This is Yhoo President Jay Russell, I am sorry to announce that Yahoo has reached its maximum number of accounts two million. If you would like to keep your account for freee send this to everone on your list. This way we can know which accounts are being used and which accounts we can delete. Send this within 8 days and you account will remain free. ONce again I am sincerely sorry that i have to do this. Please start sending. Jay Russell, Yahoo Management Renee:WHOEVER DOESNT SEND THIS MESSAGE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DEACTIVATED AND IT WILL COST $ A MONTH TO USE IT! TO SEND 2 EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST, RIGHT CLICK ON YOU GROUP DO NOT DELETE

Everyone is 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, i u would like to keep your account send this messege to everyone on our llist. this is no joke, jou'll be sorry if you don't send it. Tkhanks director of uahoo, Tim Buiski, whoever doesn't sent thisw messege kyour account will be deactivated and it will cost 10.00 dollars a mmonth to use so send to everyone on your list. right click on kyyour group name and the click

Please read this message carefully ......which was been sent by Yahoo president Jay Rusell...... This is Yahoo President Jay Russell, I am sorry to announce that Yahoo has reached its maximum number of accounts two million. If you would like to keep your account for free send this to everyone on your list. This way we can know which accounts are being used and which accounts we can delete. Send this within 8 days and your account will remain free. Once again I am sincerely sorry that I have to do this. Please start sending. Jay Russell, Yahoo Management Renee: WHOEVER DOESN'T SEND THIS MESSAGE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DEACTIVATED AND IT WILL COST $10.00 A MONTH TO USE IT! TO SEND 2 EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST, RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR GROUP and send to all

This is Yahoo President Jay Russell, I am sorry to announce that Yahoo has reached its maximum number of accounts two million. If you would like to keep your account for free send this to everyone on your list. This way we can know which accounts are being used and which accounts we can delete. Send this within 8 days and your account will remain free. Once again I am sincerely sorry that I have to do this. Please start sending. Jay Russell, Yahoo Management Renee: WHOEVER DOESN'T SEND THIS MESSAGE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DEACTIVATED AND IT WILL COST $10.00 A MONTH TO USE IT! TO SEND 2 EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST, RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR GROUP DO NOT DELETE

This is Yahoo President Jay Zetroc, I am sorry to announce that Yahoo has reached its maximum number of accounts two million. If you would like to keep your account for free send this to everyone on your list. This way we can know which accounts are being used and which accounts we can delete. Send this within 8 days and your account will remain free. Once again I am sincerely sorry that I have to do this. Please start sending. Jay Russell, Yahoo Management Renee: WHOEVER DOESN'T SEND THIS MESSAGE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DEACTIVATED AND IT WILL COST $10.00 A MONTH TO USE IT! TO SEND 2 EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST, RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR FRIENDS LIST, AND CLICK SEND INSTANT MESSAGE TO ALL IN GROUP

Hey its Andy, director of Yahoo, Tim Buiski, sorry for the interruption but Yahoo is closing down the system because too many booters are taking up all the names, we only have 57 names left, if you would like to close your account don't send this message, if you want to keep your account, send this message to everyone on your list. This is no joke, you'll be sorry you didn't send it. Thanks Tim Buiski, WHOEVER DOESN'T SEND THIS MESSAGE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED AND WILL COST $10.00 A MONTH TO USE IT , TO SEND TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR GROUP, THEN SEND IT TO YOUR GROUP

this is so scary! ok IM this to 15 more ppl in the next 145 minutes and then press F6 and ur crushes name will apear in capitol letters! its scarry because it works

DONT BREAK THE chain! ur crush will ask u out. 2morow will b the best day of ur life. However, if u don t send this 2 @ least 10 ppl bye @ least 12:00 2nite u will hav bad luck in ur luv life 4 the rest of ur life. this is not a stupid lie or a fak

Dear America Online and Instant Messages users:

Our America online staff is planning to take away IM
by July
18th, 2005. If you want to keep our IM free of charge,
send this email to
everyone you know. It will be used as a petition. Each
person you send
this to counts as one "signature" If this petition
gets 100,000 signatures
they will keep AOL IM.

One night a guy & a girl were driving home from the movies. The boy sensed there was something wrong because of the painful silence they shared between them that night. The girl then asked the boy to pull over because she wanted to talk. She told him that her feelings had changed & that it was time to move on. A silent tear slid down his cheek as he slowly reached into his pocket & passed her a folded note. At that moment, a drunk driver was speeding down that very same street. He swerved right into the drivers seat, killing the boy. Miraculously, the girl survived. Remembering the note, she pulled it out & read it. "Without your love, I would die." FORWARD THIS IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMEONE SO MUCH

i will be very angry at you if you are the perosn who stops this chain letter. SO DONT BREK IT! ok, depending on how many people you send this chain letter to, you will either have great luck with your love/crush/whatever, or horrible luck with them.

"RUBRIC:"

0-5 people- you will have horrible luck forever with your relationships.

6-15 people- your crush will be a good friend

16-20 people- your crush will ask you out

20-30 people- your crush will kiss you

31-40 people- your crush will fall in love with you

41-50 people- you will have a great love life for the next 10 years

51-60- you will marry the best man to you, and live a great, loving life with them

Because of the sudden rush of people signing up to
YAHOO, 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.
We want to find out which users are actually
using their YAHOO accounts. So if you are using your account,
please pass this e-mail to every YAHOO user that you can and IF YOU
DO NOT PASS this letter to anyone we will delete your
account.

From Mr. ALLEN SMITH
YAHOO Admin. Dept.

Hi my name is nicole marie day-underhill just today i was stabbed by family each one stabbed me if u dont send this to 20 people by the next day i will be every where u look and when u are sleeping i will have a knife and i will stabe u till u bleed from ur ears

better not hear of anyone breaking this on or delete it this is a ribbon for solidiers fighting in iraq somthin good will happen to you tonite this is not a joke, someone will either call you or talk to you online and say that they love you. do not break this chain send this to 13 ppl in the next 15 mintues GO

tommorow is national I LOVE U DAY if u get this that means u are loved. Send this to 10 people in the next 143 min and tommorow will be your best day ever . Tonight at midnight your true love will relize that they love u. something good will happen to u at 1-4 pm tommorow, it could be anywhere. Get ready for the biggest shock of ur life NO SEND BACK

Hey everyone! This is the coolest thing! This is sooooo kewl! All that you have to do is send this to 10 people and a new type of buddy list will appear after you send it! Mine can tell you exactly where someone is, who they're talking to, and if they have more than 1 s/n, it tells you what it is. This is soooooo neat!!
It's colorful too. After you send it, click on the line. You can try to click on it now, but it won't work. You have to send it to 10 people first.
It worked for me! Right now, I can see my friend's other screen name! And she is talking to someone we both know! It was also approved by AOL. This is not a joke. Believe me. It took me a couple of days to make the new buddy list, but I have

HERE WE GO AGAIN GUYS, JUST KEEP PASSING THE MESSAGES ALONG....... SORRY TO BREAK THE NEWS BUT HAVE 8 DAYS OR U CAN SAY GOODBYE TO UR ACCOUNT.YAHOO IS GOING TO CHARGE $10.00 A MONTH FOR INSTANT MESSANGER TO WHOEVER DOESNT SEND THIS MESSAGE.UR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED. PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE. LOVE U ALL .....

Dear AIM users,Because of our overloading of our servers, we are being forced to extract our non-active AIM users. Because this is a free service, AOL has exceeded the budget for the AIM service. We are asking that you send this exact message to 20 other AIM users to ensure us that you're an active AIM user. Our system tracking devise will pick up this message to keep you on our active list. You have 72 hours to complete this task or your service will be cancelled immediately. Starting JulY 30, 2005, we will be charging a small fee for registering of a screen name for AIM. Thank you for your time and for using AOL or AIM.Sincerely,Mark Jenkins AOL Owner and Founder