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 Post subject: Is this real or fake?
PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:40 pm 
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I was sent this email from a friend of mine, and I was wondering if anyone had heard of anything like this being true? I did a search on Snopes.com thinking it might be one of those urban legends and it was a false alarm, but I came up empty on my search. Does anyone know anything about it? I copied the messege and highlighted below.

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HEY HEY HEY!
If meltdown@hotmail.com adds you to your MSN Contacts, DO
NOT add it because it's a virus. PLEASE tell everybody on your
contacts because if somebody on your list accepts it then you get
the virus too (copy and paste this into a new message because some
people do not read forwards!) Don't just forward it!
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:04 pm 
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I've never heard that adding a contact can do anything to your computer. But, who knows, you know?

http://www.google.com/search?q=meltdown%40hotmail.com

I suppose I wouldn't add it, just to be on the safe side.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:09 pm 
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Guess I should have Googled it as well as looking at Snopes.

I don't add people that randomly pop up asking to be included. I just didn't want to send this to every contact in my MSN Messenger if it was a hoax.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:26 pm 
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also, if you have yim (yahoo instant messanger) don't accept the following names:

dvorak@yahoo.com
angel111
tewwtuler
sassyb#tch (minus the # sign, you know what goes there.)

i recieved this e-mail from the actual yahoo support guys, so it's a real thing.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:20 pm 
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carcrusher wrote:
i recieved this e-mail from the actual yahoo support guys, so it's a real thing.


they just say there yahoo support, look at the address' in detail. then go to the yahoo support pages. bet they dont match up. IN FACT i would garentee it.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:27 am 
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they did match up.

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