To all Facebook users

dam baddog your only friends on facebook are hackers, i feel bad for you!

Subject: PLEEEEEEASE READ!!!! it was on the news!

To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages, But this is from my good friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is an attorney.

If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, What have you got to lose? SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an attorney, And I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class action suit similar to the one filed by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long ago.

Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, You will repent later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.

When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it ( If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks time period.

For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, You will be paid $241.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a check.

I thought this was a scam myself, But two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on. Microsoft contacted me for my address and withindays, I receive a check for $24,800.00. You need to respond before the beta testing is over. If anyone can affoard this, Bill gates is the man.

It's all marketing expense to him. Please forward this to as many people as possible. You are bound to get at least $10,000.00. We're not going to help them out with their e-mail beta test without getting a little something for our time. My brother's girlfriend got in on this a few months ago. When i went to visit him for the Baylor/UT game. She showed me her check. It was for the sum of $4,324.44 and was stamped "Paid in full"

Like i said before, I know the law, and this is for real.

Intel and AOL are now discussing a merger which would make them the largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that AOL remains the most widely used program, Intel and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.

When you forward this e-mail to friends, Intel can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period. !!!

You actually think this is anywhere close to the same thing?

How sure are you that this didn't originate from someone who just disliked these people? Or wanted to prank them?

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/christoph...ker-hoax.shtml

Of course it's a hoax, kind of funny you fell for it.

I don't. I also don't trust FB yet.

Okay, proceed at your own discretion.

please tell me you know better

These things are *always* hoaxes.

This is why I'm only social on /b/... You can rest assured there are absolutely no hackers there.

Who would accept a friends request from someone they do not know anyways???

So why get this message out there to everyone without being sure?
I mean, I'm sure if I hit facebook and message boards and everywhere I could that you were a hacker and not to be trusted and to not add you to their friends lists.... you might be a little upset about it. Even more so if complete strangers propagated that to all the sites and people they know. Those people wouldn't even know you but I bet they'd be quite happy to tell the world about you.

Ha ha ha. Priceless.

For some people it's a popularity thing to have as many *friends* as they can.

Cheers for the heads up...I personally don't approve friends who I don't know.

And this is exactly the reason why these things spread.

No idea, but you can not deny it happens, probably more often than not.

Because I respect the person that sent it to me. They are not a "Bill Gates sharing his fortune" type.

I'm just a sexy girl.

facebook is worse than a hemaroid

Thanks for the info

That is true, I had to educate my niece on that issue. She was going balistic adding anyone who asked to be friends.

When I was done with her her friends list shrunk drastically

I can't help but think that if it was anyone else that made such a newbie mistake on such an obvious hoax then Baddog would be all up in his shit with snide comments about it.

Okay, why don't you explain how it is such an obvious hoax? It apparently fooled people with more experience than me.

It's just another variant of a common hoax, that's been going on for years and years and years in one form or another. It's always something stupid like don't authorize a friend, or in the original form I remember it in maybe 10 years ago or so was don't open an Email with a specific subject line or ZOMG you're hacked!

What this particular message is suggesting is that there is a major security flaw with facebook that allows a user to take over your home computer some how by adding you as a friend. The best part is you're propagating this warning on facebook its self. So in order for this NOT to be a hoax, there'd have to be a big security hole in face book, that they're completely ignoring because not only do they know how it's being done, but they know the exact user doing it and yet it continues?

Just a little common sense and maybe a little computer savvy and you'll know it's a hoax. I expect a host to have a little computer savvy and further I always considered you of at least above average intelligence. I mean, I can understand Cyber Claire not understanding, but you should know better.

Do you use FB? There are all kinds of aps that are nothing but spam. Who knows what else is lurking around in there. As stated earlier, I have not grown to trust FB at all.

no comment from me

but i did chuckle a little

I automatically assume anything that tells me to "copy and paste this to everyone u know!!!" is a hoax/scam. Unless it involves Jesus or cute kittens.

Better I think to start off from the position that any mass mailing/posting/IM of any sort that wants you to help spread information like this is almost always a scam. It's kind of a silly scam too.

For instance, if I was a customer of GotWebHost and I was having a problem with being hacked, would it make sense for me to come to you directly or to email every other gotwebhost client I could find and ask them to pass the message on?

haha I get about 30 of these a week, mostly from n00bs who have just got the interwebz.

delete, delete, delete

Technology confuses old people.

I get treated like I'm some kind of anti-social douchebag because I openly state that I will not accept 'friends' that I do not know. It's hard to get through to some people, just because they might be your friend, doesn't make them my friend.

When I see they only have one or two mutuals and one is a celeb of sorts that pretty much ensures they will be ignored.


Perhaps I don't give the average Facebooker enough credit, or maybe you give them too much. Either way, what I would prefer to happen and what reality is do not always match. Hard to believe, I know.

Besides, how many support requests for different hosts, content provider, processors, programs, et al do you see started on GFY? For some reason I put the users of GFY at a [however] slightly higher level than a FB or MySpace user. If a webmaster doesn't think to do it, why would someone on FB? Hell, I get messages from one of the aforementioned celebs constantly requesting I avoid certain fans that are cyber stalking them or some shit.

I guess I have to ease up on FB. If I look at them as a bigger GFY perhaps I will become more comfortable with it.

"whats a text"

Technically, situations like the one discussed in this thread may have started out as real or conversely can be turned into a real threat.

Everyone who has facebook knows that with the default config you get an email notifying you when someone adds you.

It is quite easy for someone to send out a phishing attempt with the name in question. If person clicks on the link and tries to log into the 'fake' facebook site without checking the address bar, they could be "hacked" just like that.

Just sharing.