Is this true?

[carlton23]

> *IF A PERSON CALLED SIMON ASHTON ( [email protected] <http://co.uk/>
) CONTACTS YOU
> THROUGH EMAIL DON'T OPEN THE MESSAGE. DELETE IT BECAUSE HE IS A HACKER!!
**
>
> TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS HIM
THEN
> YOU WILL GET HIM ON YOUR LIST. HE WILL FIGURE OUT YOUR ID COMPUTER
ADDRESS,
> SO COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE EVEN IF YOU DONT CARE FOR THEM
> AND FAST BECAUSE IF HE HACKS THEIR EMAIL HE HACKS YOUR MAIL TOO!!!!!....
> *
> Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on. This
> information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton.
> Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Intern et. You
> may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled *'Mail Server Report' **
> *
> If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen saying: 'It
> is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.'
>
> Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC,
> And the person who o sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail
> and password.
>
> This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL
> has already confirmed the severity, and the *anti virus software's are
not
> capable of destroying it * .
>
> The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'..
>
> *PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR

[ChuckFickens]

http://www.google.com...TON&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

No it's not true.

[carlton23]

Just to add, this e-mail was sent to me by a friend, should I take it seriously?

[redcrx]

http://www.snopes.com...ternet/hackermail.asp

apparently not

[LoftyLottie]

To be honest Carlton any emails like this should be ignored in my opinion If you get them, bin them and never send them on.

[squarebear]

Thsi one is older than I am!

Anything that uses excessive capital letters or urges you to FORWARD IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW !!!!!!!!!! is most likely to be a fake.

[VHG]

>Just to add, this e-mail was sent to me by a friend

Well tell your friend to stop sending such stupid scaremongering emails.

[AlBags]

He died in 1936. Shame this hoax didn't die with it.