We introduce two classes of abelian groups which have either only trivial fully invariant subgroups or all their nontrivial (respectively nonzero) fully invariant subgroups are isomorphic, called IFI-groups and strongly IFI-groups, such that every strongly IFIgroup is an IFI-group, respectively. Moreover, these classes coincide when the groups are torsion-free, but are different when the groups are torsion as well as, surprisingly, mixed groups cannot be IFI-groups. We also study their important properties as our results somewhat contrast with those from [13] and [14].