E-mail chain letters

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    mad_hatter

    Wed Dec 15 2010

    With all the ones I have deleted, I will have bad luck and/or cursed for the next 100+ years.

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    sandi111

    Sun Oct 31 2010

    I enjoy some of the funny or shocking email forwards but I wish people would learn to hit the delete button when it comes to the seriously annoying email-chain-letters. Ok, I'll admit I HAVE TO send the money angel on (I can't risk losing out on that financial windfall can I?) .... or the chocolate angel (If I don't forward her I may gain 10lbs and I certainly don't want that!) ............ *rolls eyes* If the urge strikes you to forward some amazing or shocking tale of woe...... can you please verify it with www.snopes.com first to see if it's true or not? Or better yet.......... take a chance......delete the email. Now you must forward this to at least 200 people within the next 2 minutes or your computer will explode. Really, it will. :)

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    irishgit

    Wed Feb 24 2010

    No big deal. Easy to delete and ignore. Besides, they have the advantage of helping to identify which of your "friends" are complete morons.....

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    zuchinibut

    Wed Feb 24 2010

    Yes...they are quite annoying. However, it isn't so hard to click Delete or Erase on your email provider.

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    molfan

    Wed Feb 24 2010

    I get them quite a bit. It usually starts out with Good luck will come to you if you send this back and to Xamount of friends. Of course if you do not, then bad luck will happen usually with examples of awful things that happened to the person who did not participate in this Email. NO THANK YOU ! some are just those "you are my friend letters" they are pretty harmless and maybe nice on a bad day. I usually delete the annoying letters.

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    mrsosborn

    Wed Feb 24 2010

    I hate them with a passion. ESPECIALLY when they come (and they always do) forwarded 7483947 times. If you send these...you know who you are...CUT IT OUT. It's ridiculous.

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    montemendoza

    Mon Feb 15 2010

    Luckily, I don't get too many email chain letters myself. I do know people that get them constantly. The emails do often have nice photos as part of the email, but they just go on and on. I will sometimes look at the photos and save the ones I like (puppies) and then delete the email. I have seen so many that say something like "if you forward this email to five friends, you will have something great happen to you in nine minutes." They usually say to send it back to the person that sent it to you, otherwise, I guess they are not your friend. I have never believed in having bad luck if I don't follow the instructions in a chain email.

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    biman7777

    Sun Nov 01 2009

    I just mail them back or just block them using the spam filter

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    qman_the_kid

    Sat Aug 01 2009

    i feel sory for the people that are kep up all night by this. i once believed them heers my storry: i made a youtube account but my email screwed up and i loved reading comments and saw a dozen chan letters that just kept me up for days! to tell you the trth they still creep me out a little but i dont send them.

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    canadasucks

    Fri Apr 25 2008

    An annoyance. . .but not too serious. . .

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    numbah16tdhaha

    Fri Jun 09 2006

    I've been threatened with some of the oddest things if I break the chain.

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    ladyjesusfan77_7

    Fri Jun 09 2006

    What I find the most irritating about this is people who base these on friendships. These e-mail's say "If you don't send this back, I get the hint". How many of these same people will pick up the good old fashioned telephone, or send a PERSONAL E-mail, to find out how you're doing?

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    alpepper

    Fri Feb 18 2005

    It's not that harmful, but anybody who forwards one should have their computer operator's liscense revoked. In case you are curious, there are no e-mail trackers, little things won't run across your screen if you forward a message 50 times, and Chili's, Applebees or anyone else is offering free food to cyber-idiots. The sad thing is the biggest purveyor of chain e-mails is my sister-in-law. My favorite story was when a dude I knew sent a mass e-mail to about 2/3 of the people in the Department of Defense telling them that the file Jdbgmgr.exe (the one with the Teddy Bear icon) was a very dangerous computer virus and directed them to immediately delete this file (he had everything in CAPS and !!!!!!!). I checked the Microsoft Web site and forwarded him some text that if you delete Jdbgmgr.exe, you will disable your Java. A minute later, he sent another mass e-mail to about 2/3 of the people in the Department of Defense telling them not to delete the file Jdbgmgr.exe and disregard h... Read more

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    helmut

    Thu Oct 28 2004

    This e-mail has been going since 1997, and if you send it to 50 friends in the next fifteen minutes, this poor little girl with leukemia won't die. COME ON.

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    jamie_mcbain

    Sat Jun 26 2004

    Created by people with too much time on their hands.

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    kolby1973

    Wed Feb 25 2004

    Not the most irritating thing online, but I don't care who it is, friend or not..they get auto deleted in my email inbox everytime...I don't have time for that junk.....

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    jontheman

    Sat Jan 31 2004

    I hate these, when I don't send them to at least seven people a crazy leprechaun jumps out and pokes me in the eye Oi, to be sure, to be sure!. Never could catch the little fella either

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    forgotten_hero

    Sat Jan 31 2004

    I've actually had to block a couple of addresses from people that wanted mine just so they could send me these little treasures. I would always get the messages that claimed that I'd get a special treat if I send it to a certain amount of people within ten minutes and that my balls will fall off if I fail to do so.

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    teklady

    Mon Oct 20 2003

    I hate chain letters, especially the ones sent to you where the sender has left in every email address the bloody thing was ever sent to. I bet these are the same people who can never figure out how their and their friends addresses get to those solicitation companies who send out spam in huge quantities.

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    cloudddae

    Wed Aug 27 2003

    These are really irratating. I want to lash out at people who send my addy around in these things. It propagates spam. They are usually really corny as well. Can`t people think of things of their own to write about? After all, they call themselves your friends...

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    misspackrat4je_sus

    Tue Aug 26 2003

    Send to ten people including the one who sent it to you; you will have misfortune for (fill in a number) years if you don't..... sheesh, that gets so old after awhile! These are almost as annoying as popups. E-mail chain letters are nothing short of absurd, ludicrous superstition. Besides, they're a waste of precious time.

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    kamylienne

    Tue Aug 26 2003

    I fail to see how sending an e-mail to twenty or so people can earn money for some quadrapeligic kid in some third-world country . . . Some chain e-mails, like the survey-type kinds where you fill out your info and send it to your friends, I can handle (to some extent--I mean, after the first 150 questions, I get a little tired); most others are just irritating. At least it's just a click away from being deleted.