Paying for MSN??

K, I've recieved several emails that coming November 1st, we will have to pay
for any use of MSN and it's associated email account. Now normally I would
write this off a foolishness, but it states to check the MSN home page. I
couldn't find it myself, but I wanted to check and see if this has any basis
for being real.

This is entirely not true. There are some services that MSN requires you
to pay for (like extra hotmail inbox space, MSN Plus [not the add-on
Messenger Plus!], etc.) but MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and
Windows Messenger will never be one of them. Just ignore these emails
and the links they have sent you are just misleading and are usually
found to trick people.

Lindsey wrote:
> K, I've recieved several emails that coming November 1st, we will have to pay
> for any use of MSN and it's associated email account. Now normally I would
> write this off a foolishness, but it states to check the MSN home page. I
> couldn't find it myself, but I wanted to check and see if this has any basis
> for being real.

Thank you very much for clearing this up for me. A number of my friends had
already gotten caught up in it. The email said that you had to forward it to
15-18 others or else your account would be deleted. Sounded fishy to me, but
they were nervous because it carried some to the tags of actual MSN/Hotmail
emails. Thanks again

"ValSpy" wrote:

> This is entirely not true. There are some services that MSN requires you
> to pay for (like extra hotmail inbox space, MSN Plus [not the add-on
> Messenger Plus!], etc.) but MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and
> Windows Messenger will never be one of them. Just ignore these emails
> and the links they have sent you are just misleading and are usually
> found to trick people.

Any e-mail that tells you to forward it to x number of friends is almost
certainly going to be full of incorrect, false or untruthful comments.

--
Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

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"Lindsey" <> wrote in message
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> Thank you very much for clearing this up for me. A number of my friends
> had
> already gotten caught up in it. The email said that you had to forward it
> to
> 15-18 others or else your account would be deleted. Sounded fishy to me,
> but
> they were nervous because it carried some to the tags of actual
> MSN/Hotmail
> emails. Thanks again
>
> "ValSpy" wrote:
>
>> This is entirely not true. There are some services that MSN requires you
>> to pay for (like extra hotmail inbox space, MSN Plus [not the add-on
>> Messenger Plus!], etc.) but MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and
>> Windows Messenger will never be one of them. Just ignore these emails
>> and the links they have sent you are just misleading and are usually
>> found to trick people.
>

It also sounds like an attempt to phish for account information, either by
tracking the forwarding of the email or by retrieving user information to
hijack the accounts from clicking the false link. There are a lot of
articles to tell you how to recognize these spoof-mails as I call them. I
get them a lot on where my Paypal account is concerned.

"Jason Tsang" <jason-> wrote in message
news:...
> Any e-mail that tells you to forward it to x number of friends is almost
> certainly going to be full of incorrect, false or untruthful comments.
>
> --
> Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP
>
> Read my blog for the latest in Media Center topics
> (and other topics that interest me)
> http://jtsang.blogspot.com
>
> More information by me
> http://jtsang.mvps.org
> http://www.classicsunveiled.com
>
> Find out about the MS MVP Program -
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx
>
>
>
> "Lindsey" <> wrote in message
> news:0557E98A-4AE4-4BA7-9E4F-...
>> Thank you very much for clearing this up for me. A number of my friends
>> had
>> already gotten caught up in it. The email said that you had to forward it
>> to
>> 15-18 others or else your account would be deleted. Sounded fishy to me,
>> but
>> they were nervous because it carried some to the tags of actual
>> MSN/Hotmail
>> emails. Thanks again
>>
>> "ValSpy" wrote:
>>
>>> This is entirely not true. There are some services that MSN requires you
>>> to pay for (like extra hotmail inbox space, MSN Plus [not the add-on
>>> Messenger Plus!], etc.) but MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and
>>> Windows Messenger will never be one of them. Just ignore these emails
>>> and the links they have sent you are just misleading and are usually
>>> found to trick people.
>>
>
>