Suppose G is a multiplicatively written abelian p-group, where p is a prime, and F is a field of arbitrary characteristic. The main results in this paper are that none of the Sylow p-group of all normalized units S(FG) in the group ring FG and its quotient group S(FG)/G cannot be Prüfer groups. This contrasts a classical conjecture for which S(FG)/G is a direct factor of a direct sum of generalized Prüfer groups whenever F is a perfect field of characteristic p.