THIS TIME NO FAKE IS IN FACEBOOK!!!!! “

Our work is like fighting against windmills! Week after week, we have received a variety of inquiries about the same topics over and over again for years. After seven years of mimikama, after 17,000 articles, after millions of shared Facebook posts, you would think that everyone should know that certain things simply cannot exist on the Internet.

But this is a misconception, because every week we receive requests for the same competitions, which are always based on the same pattern, and week after week tens of thousands of users take part in these competitions. Behind these competitions are address collectors who repeatedly lure users into a trap in Wild West style. But now okay.

We as mimikama can no longer do more than write articles, publish them on our website and offer the user a number of options to then read them and forward them to their friends, followers and contacts on various social channels such as Facebook , Twitter , WhatsApp and CO.

At the beginning it was a personal concern of mine to “save every user”. I have now given up on this because if you don't want to hear/read, then you just have to “feel”. It's already become difficult enough as Facebook is restricting reach and our reports are only noticed and read by a small percentage.

Nevertheless, we will not stop being there for our users. Whether with or without Facebook. If Facebook thinks it has to continue its game, then it should do so. In the long run, however, Facebook will cut itself in the flesh.

We can only recommend to our users and all intern users in general that they visit our site every day - or at least sign up for the newsletter , because then you will receive all of the day's articles in a compact form in your inbox every evening!

Why am I writing all this?

Because I have another request on the table for review that we have already dealt with several times, so I'm really wondering why users still believe such content:

THIS TIME NO FAKE IS IN FACEBOOK!!!!!
Read it, dear
Whatsapp users!
We (the Facebook team) have (as you have probably already noticed) bought the free messenger 'Whatsapp' for a total of 16 billion dollars.
Since we now own Whatsapp, we only want to have users who actually use Whatsapp. Therefore, we would like to ask everyone who has received THIS message to forward it to all contacts.
If this doesn't happen, we will take this as confirmation that this user no longer uses Whatsapp and their account will therefore be removed. The Facebook team.
copied out all the numbers (yesterday from around 11:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.)
So that we can check whether you forward the message or not.
If you, the user, ACTUALLY send the message to 10 contacts, the messenger remains free for the users who did it.
Kind regards,
The Facebook team.
I just received it, please read it - you can also read it in the FAQs
www.whatsapp.com message from Jim Balsamico (CEO of WhatsApp) We have too many users on WhatsApp.
We ask all users to forward this message to the entire contact list. If you are not redirected, we will consider your account invalid and it will be deleted within the next 48 hours. Please DO NOT ignore this message, otherwise WhatsApp will no longer recognize the activation of your account. If you wish to reactivate your account after it has been deleted, a fee of 25.00 will be added to your monthly bill. This time it's true...
☞ Important message ☜
Your beloved app WhatsApp will soon be chargeable, i.e. there will be monthly costs!
To get around this, the WhatsApp community decided to write this chain letter.
In order for this warning to be heard, it should be rebroadcast as often as possible.
This is also the one.
Way to free yourself from future costs. So you're lucky if you were able to read this message at all. After you have successfully sent this message (double tick) to 10 other friends, your WhatsApp logo will light up in red.
Kind regards,
your WhatsApp community
!!!It's even on the homepage!!!
“Please take part in the campaign so that we can continue to write to each other for free”
Dear WhatsApp customer!
As of today, the WhatsApp program is chargeable and only costs €1.23. Unless you send the SMS to 10 contacts, the symbol will light up green

4 years old!

This chain letter was born at the time when Facebook bought WhatsApp (February 2014). In the days that followed, there were many rumors about WhatsApp in the form of various chain letters. At some point the individual components merged and this form of the GIANT chain letter was created.

Anyone who fights against fakes needs perseverance. Because some rumors really last forever. And that includes this chain letter! But somehow it's also reassuring that some things never change, there will always be people who try to unsettle users or share such things again and again, but then we will be there and explain it, even if it's sometimes in our fingers itches because our patience is being tested.

 


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