At some point in time after you updated your beloved BlackBerry Messenger to the new BBM 5.0, you’ve probably been plagued by the new highlight feature, broadcast messaging. In every way, this feature is just as bad as spam in your email inbox. Every holiday I get roughly 30 broadcast messages telling me to have a happy holiday. Then the chain messages come into the mix, and you begin to hate RIM for enabling such a pestering feature into everyone’s most favorite part of their BlackBerry. Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of broadcast messages sent from “RIM” through the chain of BlackBerry Messenger users. To being with, we all know it is spam the second we get it, yet half of the people that read it forward it anyways. Hit the link to continue reading.

via: CrackBerry

Here’s the most recent message circulating:

‘Hello, greetings from RIM (Research In Motion) proprietors of BlackBerry. This message is to inform all of our users, that our servers have recently been really full, so we are asking for your help to fix this problem. We need our active users to re-send this message to everyone on your contact list inorder to confirm our active users that use BlackBerry Messenger, if you do not send this message to all your BlackBerry Messenger contacts then your account will remain inactive with the consequence of losing all your contacts.

We apologize for the inconvenience but this is the only way possible to resolve this problem. Sincerely Research in Motion. For more information visit www.blackberry.com/inactiveusers’

By now, I figured the world would have had spam figured out. The “FWD” messages in your inbox claiming that a deity will smite you if you don’t forward the email to 20 of your friends, isn’t true. This may come as news to many people, but it’s fake. Someone typed it up sitting behind their computer screen because they find it amusing, while the rest of the world grows tired of sifting through all of the spam that crowds their inboxes. So when this inevitable message gets broadcasted to your BlackBerry, do us all a favor and simply ignore it, or delete  the person that sent it to you for being “that person” that sends you all of the chain mail to your work email.