“Dear WhatsApp users!” This is a merged chain letter!
Even if some people simply mean well because they want to warn others, it is a good idea to first find out whether a warning is actually true or whether it is simply a chain letter.
This is also the case with good old Jim Balsamico, which was simply supplemented with a WhatsApp chain letter:



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 at www.whatsapp.com… GreetingsMessage 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 check) to 10 other friends, your WhatsApp logo will light up in red.Kind regards,
your WhatsApp community
The fact check
A fake from many small fakes
This chain letter is of course a fake. It also has a long development behind it because it consists of many small partial chain letters. We already created an overview of the most common WhatsApp chain letters in 2014. This “monster” shown above is probably a composition of several of these chain letters. Comparisons:
Mimikama: WhatApp chain letters
Two things about “balsamic”
Even in its original form, Jim Balsamico is mentioned as CEO of WhatsApp. That was a fake, even WhatsApp wrote about the original form of this hoax in 2012:
It's a hoax, really.
We've received quite a few emails and questions from you about chain letters distributed on our network:
WhatsApp will soon cost money. The only way to get a free account is if you are a regular user, meaning you chat with at least 10 other users...
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...
WhatsApp is 10 years old And as a thank you, we'll give you 1 more free year if you send this message to 10 more WhatsApp contacts...
...and other messages that promise you something if you do something specific.
Please note that all of these news are hoaxes and are absolutely not true. We're honored to have made it to Hoax Slayer , but we'd much rather be working on cool new features than uncovering stories like this.
Furthermore, in a newer version of this hoax, good old Jim Balsamico was replaced; the changed chain letter bears the name David Mölkner as the alleged CEO.
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