I have seen many reports lately about the following HOAX circulating Zedge, and I quote...

If some lad called bum_tnoo7@hotmail.com adds u don't accept it because its a hacker!!

Tell everyone on your list because if somebody on your list adds them u get them on your list he'll figure out Your ID computer address, so copy and paste this message to everyone and fast cause if he hacks their email he hacks your mail too!!


This is a HOAX. There is no way by simply by adding someone to your Zedge friends list they can get information from your PC. In any case this HOAX is referring to MSN specifically.

Check out this snopes.com article to see this for yourselves and you decide:

Origins: The online world has spawned myriad distinct communities (as found in newsgroups and on message boards, mailing lists, and social networking sites). Members of such enclaves tend to look out for one another, with many taking it upon themselves to spread helpful heads-ups about dangers encountered in hopes their information will keep others from experiencing similar
harm.

Unfortunately, this "We're all in this together" comraderie can be exploited and turned to ill purpose, as is the case with the alerts showcased in the "Examples" section above. These (and similar) warnings are naught but practical jokes set loose upon the unwary. Sometimes the prank is of the "Let's see how many gullible people I can get to spread my nonsense" variety (where the person named in the warning is fictional), and sometimes it's of the personal vendetta ilk (where the person is both quite real and the target of someone's ire), but in either event it's the same joke.

This leg-pull, which has been around at least since 2000, is constantly reworked by means of changing the name of the person, e-mail address, online ID, or web page being warned against. Services pranksters particularly like to name in this genre of monkeyshine are various social networking sites (MySpace, Friendster) and instant messenger services (AOL chat, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger).

In its most usual form, the heads up will begin "If somebody named " then advance with:

* "adds you in yahoo messenger"
* "asks you to check out his page"
* "adds you to their facebook account"
* "wants to chat with you"
* "adds you on msn"
* "requests to be added to your list"
* "wants to be added as a friend"
* "adds you, don't accept it"

Usually the harm being warned against is an attempt to implant a computer virus that will either do malicious things to the victim's computer or will turn it into a zombie that will attack others without its owner being aware of what's going on, although other versions of the tomfoolery specify different risks (that the person being warned against is a "hacker," for instance).

Thanks, please notify your buddies.

Jeremy

Thanks! Can't blame a 42 year old "non-geek" for falling for this stuff! This is still all a HUGE learning process for me!
Love you site by the way! Thanks!

Thank you Admin, this message is very useful for me & other Zedgers

thanks for the information,
did zedge identify the person who spread this message first

Yeah... tnx for reminding!

i will inform everyone i know ! t*****x !!

shall i paste it in zedger gb as ur quote boss

okk i will leave the link !

i dnt get it ...do we jus not talk 2 the person or somethin