Reply to e-mail and get ....

Ingo Mamczak · Post by **Ingo Mamczak** » 8 Jul 2000 10:25 am

Hi all .
I'm wondering who gains from these e-mails , the type which say " forward this to 20 friends and you'll be rich in two weeks ..."
Are e-mail addresses really that valuable ?
Ingo .

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 8 Jul 2000 12:19 pm

Ingo,
This is a chain letter that serves no
purpose other than to annoy you and everybody
that recieves one,on the other hand
a good joke is always welcomed.
When it says forward to 20 people
and you will have good luck,I delete
it.

Bill Ford

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Ingo Mamczak · Post by **Ingo Mamczak** » 8 Jul 2000 5:31 pm

Hi Bill ,
I agree with you , they are chain letters .
Thanks ,
Ingo .

Ernie Renn · Post by **Ernie Renn** » 9 Jul 2000 2:03 am

Ingo;
When I get a mail like that the first thing I do is go to: Chain Letter Central and see if it's listed. Then, if it is I send the link about it to the mail sender. Most times they thank me for letting them know.
One I check when I get an email virus warning is: The Computer Virus Hoax page.
These links have been very handy for me. I hope they are for you, too.

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My best,
Ernie

The Official Buddy Emmons Website
www.buddyemmons.com

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 9 Jul 2000 2:34 am

I treat those types of e-mail the same way I do other spam. It's deleted.

Ingo Mamczak · Post by **Ingo Mamczak** » 9 Jul 2000 8:31 am

Hello ,
Thanks for posting those links Ernie .
I appreciate that ,
Ingo .

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 9 Jul 2000 8:39 am

I have a cousin--sort of the bad egg in the family, all our lives, who used to send chain letters on to me and everyone else--the kind of "break the chain and have terrible misfortune" kind of crap--"send this to ten people or else". Really offensive. Well now he does it with email. I do believe that next time I receive one of these things from him I will send him 10 copies back.

Ingo Mamczak · Post by **Ingo Mamczak** » 9 Jul 2000 5:04 pm

Hi Jon ,
I feel that way too

Ernie , that really is a great site , thanks

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Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 10 Jul 2000 7:57 pm

another useful site is the Snopes Urban Legends / Hoaxes Site a clearinghouse for those annoying "lookout for HIV hypodermic needles under gas pump handles" and "Neiman Marcus Cookie" and "Walt Disney is cryogenically preserved at Tomorrowland" e-mails we all get. I Send a link to the Hoax listing on Snopes to every rcipient in the original forwarded e-mail I get.

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 11 Jul 2000 5:45 pm

Jon Light,
You have made a new friend,love the
send em 10 back,gotta love it.

Bill in SC

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Ingo Mamczak · Post by **Ingo Mamczak** » 11 Jul 2000 8:40 pm

Thanks Dave

I'm going to enjoy that site .
Ingo .

Martin Abend · Post by **Martin Abend** » 14 Jul 2000 3:04 am

Hey DVA,

super-cool site! Thanks!

-martin

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 15 Jul 2000 9:33 am

you are very welcome! Hope you find it as useful in pi$$ing off undiscriminating e-mail forwarders as I have!

Seems that folks who have forwarded a hoax to you often don't take very well to your informing them they've "been had" (fooled, bamboozled)even if it's for their own good.
Educating people to THINK for themselves, to analyse if something dropped over the transome promising $$$ or disaster might possibly be false, is a thankless task.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 15 Jul 2000 12:25 pm

I lost a "friend" over doing that (if he really was a friend). I knew the guy when I was working and he was a loser there too.
He kept sending me junk and would send the e-mail hoaxes to me. Finally I had enough and sent him a message that he should "do his homework" before sending that crap out and should know it's a hoax. He got pi$$ed and I haven't heard from his since (but 95% of the hoax messages I used to get are gone too).