So I received this e-mail from a good friend of mine today, who shall remain nameless:

Hey it is Andy and john the directors of MSN, sorry for the interruption
but msn is closing down. this is because too many inconsiderate people are taking up all the name (eg making up lots of different accounts for
just one person), we only have 578 names left. If you would like to close
your account, DO NOT SEND THIS MESSAGE ON. If you would like to keep your account, then SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. This is no joke, we will be shutting down the servers. Send it on, thanks. WHO EVER DOES NOT SEND THIS MESSEAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED AND YOU WILL COST £10.00 A MONTH TO USE. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT
LIST. NOW YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS or REPLAY. COPY THE WHOLE EMAIL. GO BACK TO YOUR INBOX AND CLICK ON NEW. AND PASTE THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION
hey everyone,
i dont normally send this sort of stuff out but had a look on the internet
and its actually true . On the 1st of november , we will have to pay for
the
use of our MSN and email accounts unless we send this message to at least
18
contacts on your contact list. It's no joke if you don't believe me then go
to the site ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm ) and see for
yourself. Anyways once you've sent this message to at least 18 contacts ,
your msn dude will become blue. please copy and paste don't forward cos
people won't take notice of it.

Now, e-mails like this REALLY piss me off, and in my usual fashion, i'll tell you why. First of all, which professional company makes as many grammatical / spelling / capitalising errors like this one supposedly does? There are 3 instances where letters should be capitalised in the opening two sentences for starters. This next bizarrely paragraphed section is pretty funny:

too many inconsiderate people are taking up all the name (eg making up lots of different accounts for
just one person), we only have 578 names left.

Inconsiderate people hey? MSN offered the Hotmail service to us, we can make as many accounts as we like. As for there only being supposedly 578 usernames left in the database, I mean come on! SERIOUSLY! :D I'm sure the likes of fhfhjhfkhgjkhg@hotmail.com, and ghguetyetyff478we4738@msn.com were snapped up ages ago. There will never be a shortage of usernames to sign up with. Why do you think MSN close accounts that haven't been used after a period? They close those names, and then put them back on the market for people to snap up. The above, is fucked up.

And what the fuck is this???

YOU WILL COST £10.00 A MONTH TO USE.

Oh will I know? If you're gonna use me, you better be a chick. i.e. this is one fucked up grammatical error which could have easily been avoided, and WOULD have been by any sensible company. But the retard who sent this out was either typing too fast, or was cracking one off while doing so and created yet another error.

SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT
LIST. NOW YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS or REPLAY. COPY THE WHOLE EMAIL. GO BACK TO YOUR INBOX AND CLICK ON NEW. AND PASTE THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION

If the above is true, then somehow Microsoft are applying counter's to e-mails we're sending around. Ya know that e-mail ya sent with the funny picture, and then it got sent on again, and again?? Microsoft must be adding up the numbers of who it's being sent to. Why? WHO THE FUCK KNOWS? They can, and will. LOLZ. Ahem. NO-ONE is keeping tabs on where this e-mail is going, and if the e-mail WAS legit, it would be pretty impossible to keep tabs on whose sending and receiving this hunk of junk. It ain't happening people. And they recommend that we copy and paste; what the fuck did you expect me to do?? Type out the whole fucking letter??

i dont normally send this sort of stuff out but had a look on the internet
and its actually true . On the 1st of november , we will have to pay for
the
use of our MSN and email accounts unless we send this message to at least
18
contacts on your contact list.

Whoever dreamt up this fucking thing reckons we ONLY have until 1st November to get this mission accomplished. But what year??? And why 18 contacts? Why not a nice round 20?? Anywho, here's the 'proof'...

It's no joke if you don't believe me then go
to the site ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm ) and see for
yourself.

Granted, the link takes you to a legit enough looking BBC news page, but wonderfully, the article is listed as being from Sunday, 25 February, 2001, 11:00 GMT. So... over 5 years ago then? Boy am I fucked! I haven't paid for my MSN in over 5 years! At supposedly £60 a year, I owe a big £300 to those bastards at Microsoft. I'm fucked! Oh NOES!

Anyways once you've sent this message to at least 18 contacts ,
your msn dude will become blue. please copy and paste don't forward cos
people won't take notice of it.

Anyways, just fuck off and die. And what the fuck is my 'msn dude'??? Fucking retard. And who the hell even says 'dude' anymore like they're some fucking cool individual?? And what's this about having to forward, otherwise people won't notice it? Sadly, anyway you get this e-mail in your inbox you WILL notice it, and the silly sods out there who believe it will then go e-mail crazy and have it sent out to everyone they know. The bottom line is this: NEVER believe chain letters of any kind. I've never understood what the real point of them are. They're pointless and horrible, especially the ones that threaten you if you don't send them on,

SEND THIS LETTAR ON2 17.6 PEEPS OR HAVE YO TESTIES RIPpED OFF MY A PASSING CHAIN! lol

ALWAYS reply to these letters with the simple following message: FUCK OFF AND DIE, TWAT

Always works for me.