MSN Messenger 500,000 Signatures Hoax
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What the fact-checkers found
Email forward claims that MSN will start charging a monthly fee for its Messenger service if 500,000 “signatures” are not received by September 14th, 2005
FW: Please Read THIS. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT
MSN is planning to take away MSN Messenger by September 14th, 2005. If you want to keep our MSN Messenger 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 – Copy and paste this onto a new letter add you name below and send it to EVERYONE you know. I don’t want to have to pay for it. Do you???????
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