Save MSN Messenger Petition

Classification		Status
Hoax		True
Urban Legend		False
Chain Mail		Unknown
Joke/Spoof		Aliases
Scam		Related to
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This is a hoax. There is currently no plans to change the status of MSN Messenger. It is a sham, meant only to panic new or inexperienced computer users.

The hoax message includes the following "warning:"

Dear MSN and Hotmail users:

MSN is planning to take away MSN Messanger by September 14th, 2001.If you want to keep our MSN Messanger 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 500,000 signatures they will keep MSN Messenger. If they do not receive 500,000 votes you will have to pay 5.00 to have Messenger(per month).If you don't care about this then please for everyone's sake help out a little. Thank you for your time and consideration and please help MSN beat, their vote.

Please ignore any messages regarding this hoax and do not pass on any messages regarding it. Passing on messages about this hoax serves only to further propagate it.

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