typical forward....

[Tenshi no Ai]

*sigh* so many e-mails where if you type forward the message to so many people, some company will look and say "Oh look at all the names! We should donate a couple pennies towards so-and-so's surgery!" Check out this one I got... really gets to me how they make you feel guilty if they don't, but this one seems more real than the others. No other foward actually gave you personal information.... I still dunno how it's supposed to work, but... take a look. (I bracketed the personal info since the board's been having problems and it would probably end up getting edited anyhow"


"Pls don't delete without reading:

A couple of days ago, my daughter, she's 6years old, her name is
Fatima.Well, she was playing on the street, in front of our house,
and then out of no where, this car came out and crashed into her! I was so
frightened and angered at the driver, but it ended out to be, that the
drivers brakes had been shot, and he wasn't able to stop.

Luckily, my daughter, was able to avoid death, but she is in very serious condition.
Right now, as I speak, she's in the hospital, but the
thing is,she has a serious injury. It's internal bleeding, and it's bad to
say,but we don't have any health insurance, and we don't have enough money to
pay for the operation.

So I made a deal with a company, BCC inc and they told me, for
every person that will foward this email, they will donate 3 cents to the operation.

THIS IS NO JOKE. We attached encoding, that tracks how many times
this message is fowarded. SO PLEASE, FOWARD THIS LETTER TO EVERY PERSON
ON YOUR LIST.IT WILL BE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Regards,
(person's name)
c/o:
(person's company and country)
(person's univerity street)
(person's address)
(person's city)
Tel. : ( )
Fax : ( )
E-mail: ( )

Please forward this message to everyone you know. Thanks. No
matter this message is true or false, I rather believe it to be true as if you
don't believe it, YOU MAY DESTROY A LIFE OF A LITTLE GIRL......."

Anyone else get this forward? Girl's probably not even in the hospital right now or is of course, just made up! And if this is a scam, what do they need our e-mails for anyone? Just to junk mail us or something

*felt like making up a random topic*

[agasfas]

no i've never recieved this one. Though i remember a couple years ago chain letters were very popular. I mean i've recieved like a million in the past. But in all honesty i doubt they would donate 3cents per forward. I've never heard of this kind of story ever being true. Though, you never know I may be wrong. Though if it was true that would be nice to help the injured girl, but realistically i doubt it's true.

[Zero One]

The one that really annoys me is that one about bill gates donating and AOL giving so much money to everyone that forwards it just for the heck of it, I've gotten that one so many times I just about do something crazy...like...well I don't know but it's annoying.

[Kaligraphic]

Well, maybe it's from the same guy who wants my help to get George Graphic's fortune out of Nigeria.

[Zane]

I got one recently... it said only for you and no-one else, Husband and wife, rich people from kuwait, always donated money to charities, with or without religious backgrounds, Husband died, and wife is on her deathbed typeing from the laptop and wants me to email her back with my phone No and stuff so she can transfer $ into my account to finish off her charity work.
They have 50 million lying around and i have to use it how they asked my to.

I don't know... it sounded really, but i have no clue who they are, and the email address is for Italy.. why the heck am i getting money to donate to charties in Australia?? Im with you Tenshi, I don't like them.

[Jasdero]

Well, maybe it's from the same guy who wants my help to get George Graphic's fortune out of Nigeria.

I get a lot of the exactly same kind of e-mails. "My name is ________. I am a wealthy _______ in ________ trying to get my $$$$_______ out of _________ into an American bank, but we need a U.S. citizen to hold the money for us in their bank account in order to do so. Will you please help us? You will be paid a ____% / $$_____ amount of money. Thank you."

That's basically what's been filling a lot of my e-mail addresses.... I actually believed the first one I got, and replied to it, apologizing because I wouldn't be able to help them, and I wished them luck.... but then I get the next one... ";;;;

I'm kind of wondering, though... What's in it for them?

[termyt]

Most definitely a scam. It's probably at least possible in theory to track emails like that as long as all of the ISP's and email servers played along, but I've not heard of anyone actually doing that. It's much easier to trace where something came from than to trace where it went. As to why anyone would put together a hoax like this? Who knows. People are both strange and cruel. At least with Tenchi's email, there's no real harm in forwarding the email and it might actually make some people feel good for participating. Unlike Kaligraphic's email, which could find you relieved of all of the funds in your bank account.

[Zero One]

"Rabid squirrels stole my daughter's spleen and she got better but then the squirrels came back for her pinky and is now in critical condition. Please pass this e-mail along to to 5 people within the next 5 minutes because somehow this will help my daughter and it'll create a magical barrier of doom keeping the squirrels away from her. Now make a wish (because this e-mail is all that magical) send it to 1 person you'll die a horrible death by lawn gnomes, send it to 3 people in the next 5 minutes and you'll get a cookie, 5-10 you'll become vice president in by tomorrow morning, 15 or more and you'll marry your first Power Ranger's action figure!

[Tenshi no Ai]

I got one recently... it said only for you and no-one else, Husband and wife, rich people from kuwait, always donated money to charities, with or without religious backgrounds, Husband died, and wife is on her deathbed typeing from the laptop and wants me to email her back with my phone No and stuff so she can transfer $ into my account to finish off her charity work.
They have 50 million lying around and i have to use it how they asked my to.

I don't know... it sounded really, but i have no clue who they are, and the email address is for Italy.. why the heck am i getting money to donate to charties in Australia?? Im with you Tenshi, I don't like them.

Yeah in law class we were talking about the many types of scams, and that was one of them. That would be a particularily harmful one since yes, the foreigners WILL clean out your money.

Ones like mine though I can't help but think that it's just adding to a junk mail forward list or something. *shrugs* There's always the odd one...

[JediSonic]

"Rabid squirrels stole my daughter's spleen and she got better but then the squirrels came back for her pinky and is now in critical condition. Please pass this e-mail along to to 5 people within the next 5 minutes because somehow this will help my daughter and it'll create a magical barrier of doom keeping the squirrels away from her. Now make a wish (because this e-mail is all that magical) send it to 1 person you'll die a horrible death by lawn gnomes, send it to 3 people in the next 5 minutes and you'll get a cookie, 5-10 you'll become vice president in by tomorrow morning, 15 or more and you'll marry your first Power Ranger's action figure!

Thats genious.

Anyway if youre ever wondering whether something is a hoax, check snopes.com - its an awesome site for that stuff.

[Destroyer2000]

Heh, I get so many 'enhancement' emails, that it's not funny...though it never was. I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about. I've gotten emails from the foreigners wanting me to hold money for them. It's especially bad when you get the Christian emails. Anyone know who dragonking222 or somethig is? I got a chain letter about something-another-soldier, and then one titled "the time for God is NOW" or something. I ignored them, though I didn't delete them.

[Mangafanatic]

Chain letters! Ah!! *rips hair out.* I sent letters to all of my friends requesting they not send these to me. It's a virus just waiting to happen.

On a lighter, more embarrassing not, I wrote a fake one of these chain letters when I was ten or so. It might still be floating around there on the internet somewhere, and people all over the place are reading the sob story I wrote saying "Oh, that's so sad." My goodness, I was a rotten child.

[Zero One]

Heh, I get so many 'enhancement' emails, that it's not funny...though it never was. I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about. I've gotten emails from the foreigners wanting me to hold money for them. It's especially bad when you get the Christian emails. Anyone know who dragonking222 or somethig is? I got a chain letter about something-another-soldier, and then one titled "the time for God is NOW" or something. I ignored them, though I didn't delete them.

yeah, I used to get alot of those "enhancement" emails too, it was soo annoying, I wanted to burn them but most I could do was delete them and set raise my spam level blocker...thingy..

[Destroyer2000]

Maybe we should put your chain letter up on the net, Zero One...it'd be hilarious.

[Zero One]

you know if I were a bit more sleepy I'd probably actually do that, so if you ever find this letter floating around your inbox you know where it came from.

[Kaligraphic]

A good rule of thumb is that if someone emails you out of the blue, asking you to do something, it's likely to be a scam. Also, if a reputable location sends you an email directing you to their site, they typically won't include a link. (if there's a link, it's likely to be a scam going to a lookalike site designed to steal your login.) This goes triple for stuff like banks and paypal.