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Is Aim Going to Start Charging to Register Janurary 1st? Who is Mark Jenkins?
It appears that today, there has been an IM circulating around to every screen name. The message is as follows:
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 January 1st, 2009, 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.
We regret to inform you that although we sent out a warning telling all aim users we are cutting accounts that we see are not being used regularly people have not been responding.So as warned we shall begin cutting accounts starting Friday July 18. Forward this message to 30 or your account as well shall be cut. Thank you for using AOL Instant Messenger
Dear AIM users, Because of our overloading of our a 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 December 10, 2008, we will be charging a small fee for the registering of a screen name for AIM. Thank you
Is this message True or False?
False! This is actually “chain” instant message to scare users into thinking they must send this message to everyone they know.
What happens if I send this message to other people?
AOL has been flagging this message as spam. This means that if you do send that message, you will likely get kicked off of aim and your account may be suspended. If your account has been suspended by sending this message, please login through my.screenname.aol.com and select forgot password.
In the future please disregard any IMs that are similar to this. Every few months, chain IMs are sent out giving false warnings about various things. Most of the time they want you to send it to everyone you know.
I don’t believe you, this must be true!
If you believe in every IM you get, you will most likely get your account stolen. There are people out there pretending to be AOL staff that will IM you for your password. Once you give it to them, the account is no longer yours and they can change your password in a moment’s notice. Besides, Mark Jenkins does not work for AOL, he is actually an urban artist.
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Well, i got my account suspended because I thought this was real. nd now when I go to forgot password thing, they say Cannot Process Request, Please Try Again.
All of my friends are worried that they will be taken away! cant aim services tack down the computer?
Are your friends suspended? Or are they worried they might get suspended?
I thought is was obvious it was spam when I noticed all of the grammar and spelling mistakes in a message meant to be copied and pasted. AOL would not make such mistakes, nor would they need to ask users to do this themselves.
i sent it to 30 people am i gna get suspended
A possibility it can happen. If it does, you will need to perform a password reset to get your account back.
I’m not sure if this website Is true as they said don’t belive everything you read
Well you can go ahead and send the message to 20 people, and get your account suspended. Its your choice.
dont believe this stuff pleaseee everyoneee its dumb people making forwards thinking its hilarious. but is not funny to get our sn suspended.
I as well didnt fall for it because like someone said above.. there are waaay too many grammar mistakes. Its not cool for whoever sent it though because there are people who do think its real and its getting passed around.
i said it was fake to my friend after she sent it to me but nooo she went on making me think it was real. so i sent it. hope i dont get suspended
Considering this chain IM is over 10 years old, you’d think someone would be smart enough to fix the spelling mistakes.
omg wtf. i got mine taken away too! i thought it was a chain and OMG please let me have it back! i thought it was real. i mean really?!!!
Yeah i got pretty scared too and I dont know what to do
but dont believe this stuff its just some crappy person trying to suspend and scare a bunch of people so just ignore it its nothing to worry about.
Seriously? What idiot believes that a spelling-error-ridden IM is how the AOL CEOs would choose to communicate with their users?
Lots of people and they fall for it every time. Though there is 16 comments here, behind the scenes when this message was spammed again, the majority of hits came from “hip top” users. The T-mobile Sidekick is a Hip Top device. The age group is mostly between 13-24 year olds, who pretty much get easily fooled by things like this.
Dhat chain went around to so many people && people were actually crazyy enoughh to beilieve it . ii qot it toO buhd ii didn’t fw. Iht because really who makes that much grammer mistakesssss . ?