BlackBerry Smartphones BlackBerry Messenger message virus string?
I just received a message from a couple of contacts via BBM who claims to be a message from RIM saying that the BBM servers are full, and if users do not send the message to all of their contacts on BBM then RIM will assume that they are inactive users their BlackBerry Internet Service will be disabled.
The message text is blue and had a link to the end 'www.blackberry.com/inactiveusers' which does not exist.
Surly this is a virus? I have deleted the message and have not sent.
Anyone else had this message? Is this a virus or is it authentic?
Thank you.
Lol it is not a virus. And it is not authentic. It is rather a separator. It identifies your contacts list people who are stupid enough to not not to spot a hoax, even if she literally screams the word.
"Hey, we're the rim. "Our servers are so damned overloaded with messages from BB we would like EVERYONE to send messages even more... Please:
You get the point?
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