Just verified this with Snopes and it is REAL. ALSO WENT TO TRUTH OR FICTION, IT'S on their site also.
E-mails 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!
1.) If you get an e-mail along the lines of 'Osama Bin Laden Captured' or
'Osama Hanged' , don't open the Attachment!!!!
This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the globe, but m ainly in the US and Israel .
Be considerate & send this warning to whomever you know.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:
2.) You should be alert during the next few days:
Do not open any message with an attached file called'Invitation' regardless of who sent it.
> It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which 'burns' the whole hard disc C of your computer!!!!
This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list, that is why you should send this E-mail to all your contacts.
It is better to receive this message=2 025 times than to receive the virus and open it.
If you receive e-mail called 'invitation', even though sent by a friend. Do not open it!!! Shut down your computer immediately!!!!
This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.
This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus.
This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.
ahahahahah ! holy sh!t !! ahah, olimpic torch ? ahahah lool4 years ago I remember me and a colleague of mine seeing the same mail, but in that case, the olimpic torch burned your screen ! ahah, loolPlease, erase this blog post, this is utterly ridiculous. Besides, people don’t need people sending spam mails telling them there is a virus floating around. Those are all hoaxes
The hackers change the scams a little every yearIt is true that some of these are old but they may not be known by others who where not hit by them last year.
no way! are there people that fall for these???? no way!
yep, even the one of the inventors of the web fell for a phishing scam one time