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Old 03-02-09, 05:11 PM   #1
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I had got this alert by paper, that too, from a very trustable source, from a Central Govt. Company. A neighbour of mine just brought in me a paper with a message from their head Office in Mumbai. It had been sent to all their offices, all over India, today.

Just then I searched to finally find that it was true.

URGENT TWO SUBJECT LINES TO BEWARE OF:

Better safe than sorry. read and heed.


PLEASE INFORM EVERYONE

Emails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent and the moment that you open these emails, your computer will crash and you will not be able to fix it!

If you get an email along the lines of 'Osama Bin Laden Captured' or 'Osama Bin Laden Hanged', don't open the attachment.

This email is being distributed through countries around the globe, but mainly in the US and Israel.


This was the real message from the Central Head of the office.

I just wanted to give an alert.
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Hmmm... Thanks for the alert man!
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Will take care...Thanks bro..
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Sorry guys. I just found that this was a way old warning. But I wonder why and how this was sent from their Head Office in Mumbai.


Here is the thing I found just now.

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Unfortunately, unlike the Trojan it warns about, the email hoax is getting wide distribution, spreading FUD and wasting time and bandwidth. Please do be considerate; DON'T send this warning to anyone you know. It's as bogus as the alleged pictures of Osama are.
I would like to request the mods or Admin to delete this thread if they find this information irrelevant now.
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lol......i receives lot such emails.....these are very famous forwards....
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I had got this alert by paper, that too, from a very trustable source, from a Central Govt. Company.
if its from Govt company then it must be true....these ppl are never updated.

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your computer will crash and you will not be able to fix it!
there is not threat exist ASIAK....that can crash computer.......it can crash OS, but never a computer......& yeah its always possbile to recover the OS or atleast the deleted data (even deleted by formatting).....u just need to know the things u need to do
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lol......i receives lot such emails.....these are very famous forwards....

if its from Govt company then it must be true....these ppl are never updated.


there is not threat exist ASIAK....that can crash computer.......it can crash OS, but never a computer......& yeah its always possbile to recover the OS or atleast the deleted data (even deleted by formatting).....u just need to know the things u need to do
Hey buddy!!

You are really going against me. I had already said in my earlier post that this case has died out.
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thanks for the info.. but i don't even read any such mails, let alone opening attachments!
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snopes.com: Osama Captured/Hanged Virus

Osama Bin Laden Virus Emails
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Give rep points to Cool_techie_tvm.
I could not add more points

I just typed in Google search:
Osama Bin laden Hanged.

from the first link
snopes.com: What's New

In future please try a Google /Yahoo search.

Luckily,you did not post this during contest period.
At least 500 posts would have been made then !!!!!
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@dhaneshv

Give rep points to Cool_techie_tvm.
I could not add more points

I just typed in Google search:
Osama Bin laden Hanged.

from the first link
snopes.com: What's New

In future please try a Google /Yahoo search.

Luckily,you did not post this during contest period.
At least 500 posts would have been made then !!!!!
This really shows off what you think, and how you think.
You checked just the first link you got in the Google's Search list, and you didn't even read this thread completely. If you had just gone through this thread (it had only 7 small replies at the time you were replying), you wouldn't ("shouldn't") have replied here. I had asked everybody to kindly settle down and leave this thread, and everybody else had understood that.

This makes it clear that you jump onto conclusions, and blame others, without even making sure that you are right.

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In future please try a Google /Yahoo search.
@essbebe

In future, please don't just try Google/Yahoo Search. See what the results are, and don't just believe in the first thing that you see.

@cool_techie_tvm

I have no problems with you buddy.


I would like to now ask the Mods or Admin to close this thread.
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