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Old 07-19-2005, 09:49 PM
BlkWolfsMoon
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Recently, there has been a rash of people on my messanger list sending me the same message. It says, and I quote:

" DO NOT DELETE!!! This is yahoo President Jay Russell. I am sorry to announce that yahoo has reached its maximum number of accounts- 2 million. If u would like to keep your account for free, send this to everyone on your list. This way we can know which accounts r being used and which accounts can be deleted. Send this within 8 days and your account will remain free. Once again, i am sincerly sorry that I have to do this. Please start sending. Jay Russell, Yahoo management "

Is this a scam? I went to the Yahoo! F.A.Q., and it says:

"How many users does Yahoo! have? (Back to Top)

More than 345 million unique users worldwide used the Yahoo! global network of properties (January 2005).
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Should I take this to mean that someone is running a scam? I wouldn't think that you would have to send that particular note to prove that you're using your account... I figured all Yahoo! would have to do is look at one's signin log...

Plus there are a few notes that I might point out that make me believe that it is a fraud. The use of "u" instead of "you", "r" instead of "are" and the lower case "I". Somehow, I feel that if this note was truly as important as it says... the grammer and spelling would have been better looked over...

What's the deal?

A concerned customer,
~Victoria
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Old 07-26-2005, 02:44 PM
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Victoria, this IS a scam. I would not worry about Yahoo hitting some magic number as far as users go. Their services are all built to be scalable which means that they are virtually limitless in size.
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Old 08-12-2005, 03:58 PM
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Victoria,
This is not only a scam, but it also contains a worm. Delete immediately.
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