Chain letters

**xcolbi** · 02-04-2007, 03:45 PM

Haha, that's a strange chain letter! I've gotten those a lot! Someone sent me one that said:

Hi my name is (whatever the name was). I am 15 and I am dead. I have no nose and no ears. If you don't send this to 15 people in the next 5 minutes, I will show up by your bed at 10:00 tonight and stab you in the heart.

Not the exact words but pretty close to it.

**GreyhoundGirl** · 02-04-2007, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by xcolbi

Haha, that's a strange chain letter! I've gotten those a lot! Someone sent me one that said:

Hi my name is (whatever the name was). I am 15 and I am dead. I have no nose and no ears. If you don't send this to 15 people in the next 5 minutes, I will show up by your bed at 10:00 tonight and stab you in the heart.

Not the exact words but pretty close to it.

That's extremely creepy and illegal. I would never reply to a chain letter and rarely open anything that is FW: This is just my opinion on this. It is illegal to send any chain letters that have threats in them. No matter how silly they seem.

**Maya & Inka's mommy** · 02-05-2007, 11:44 AM

I simply despise chain letters!!

**Daisy and Delilah** · 02-05-2007, 12:41 PM

I'm with you Lut!! Can someone tell me, what is the purpose of those things? Funny, I was just thinking about this yesterday. What good do they do anybody except to clog up your email system? I immediately delete all of them. I have never re-sent one and I don't feel bad about it either

Years ago, I would read some of them and they always seem to threaten you at the end with great misfortune if you don't send them to all of your friends. What is up with that?

**BC_MoM** · 02-05-2007, 01:33 PM

Friends are always spamming my inbox with chain letters. I don't even open them, they go right into my trash bin. The only ones I glance at are ones from my parents.

**LoudLou** · 02-05-2007, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah

... Can someone tell me, what is the purpose of those things? ...

If you've got the time these are some interesting links:

http://www.snopes.com/luck/chain.asp

http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain...evolution.html

I love my "delete" and "Trash bin" in Outlook!
Myspace is notorious for the "Repost this 5x's or something will happen" I am glad "Delete" works well there too!

**xcolbi** · 02-05-2007, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by GreyhoundGirl

That's extremely creepy and illegal. I would never reply to a chain letter and rarely open anything that is FW: This is just my opinion on this. It is illegal to send any chain letters that have threats in them. No matter how silly they seem.

Exactly! Everytime I get one now I just delete it. There's no point in making them anyways. They're pretty stupid in my opinion.