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The your online service is overloaded and will cancel your account if you don't forward this message is an old form of leg pull began its online life way back December 1999 as a jape that targeted users of the free Hotmail e-mail service, and over the years it has mutated to settle on Facebook users: A December 2006 Facebook version read as follows: In June 2010, new versions of the Facebook hoax surfaced: A similar version began to circulate in January 2015. While this version of the scam also requested Facebook users to forward the hoax message to a number of their social media connections, it also included a customer support number. According to OKCaller.com, the number listed in the message was an unsafe number:
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