Recently I've been getting alot of mails on hotmail that says basically the same thing:

This is a message from MSN, forward it at least to18 people or your hotmail account will be closed, when you do this your msn icon will turn blue!! for more information check msn.com

In other versions the letter says that hotmail is going to be a paid service unless you forward this message to I don't know how many contacts and they contain a link to a BBC.com article that supports their claim. I checked that link and the article is dates back to about 6 or 7 years ago (i.e. too freakin' old to be true, Duh!!) this aniquated article is just used to make this spam more convincing. And everybody so damn stupid to keep falling for the same old trick over and over again!!

You should know it's fake for the following reasons:
1. Real messages from msn staff has the butterfly logo on the letter symbol in you inbox.
2. When msn wants you to validate your account i'm sure that they'll be able to think of a way better than to forward a message to a stupid number of contacts.
3. Nothing is on msn.com supports this in any way, but everybody's too lazy to check, they just forward first ask questions later.
4. "Your msn logo will turn blue" how stupid is this??

And the worst part is that people keep sending this like the folks at hotmail got nothing to do but to keep asking you to keep on spamming under the threat of losing your account!! How people keep buying this I have no idea; think people, think!!!

P.S: just after I first posted this I went to check my hotmail inbox, I found the same message again, wait a minute that's not all the sender had a yahoo address!!! WTF? how stupid can people get? AAARRRRRRRRGH!