Stigers, Gregory - ANDOVER writes:
> Does anyone out there know if this is for real, or if it has been
> confirmed as nonsense? I have to wonder if AOL has a promotion, and
> someone is trying to scuttle it.

Yes it is a hoax, yes it might be real.  ;-)

The hoax part pertains to bad things happening by merely *READING* the e-mail
message.  Nothing bad will happen by merely reading this e-mail.

However, there may indeed be a real AOL4FREE trojan horse program.  If you
read that message, AND save the attached program AND run the attached program,
bad things may happen to you.

For details see:

        http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html

All I know about AOL4FREE is what I read on the above web page.
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