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Ugh, couldn't you at least clean out the carets? LOL
Seriously, I absolutely hate these kind of chain mail messages, most especially since the people who tend to send them to me are the ones who just hit "forward" insead of copying and pasting, so I get pages of carets and hundreds of email addresses... and everyone else gets my address as well.
Although I'd hope that this long after 9/11, people wouldn't still be getting fooled by this particular angle.
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true on the special hell part. I'll FWD messages, but will delete the addresses of those that have already been sent it. It's a method of security we used on the ship.
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That e-mail makes me depressed...that people are so stupid to actually forward on those things. I can imagine the conversation with Red Cross about the surgery - "Well, the surgery will cost alot of money, so instead of paying you the amount of money needed for the surgery we're going to make you play a miserable game where you have to get thousands of people to forward an e-mail so your mommy can survive. For some strange reason, it seems like a good idea." I wonder how many people actually believe that? I really hope it's zero.
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I always wonder why somebody actually started a message like this. If there was no attachment for a trojan horse or other virus it's not like the person who made up this BS story is actually getting anything out of suckers forwarding it.
In a way, I respect the Nigerian-Bank/Inheritance scam emails more than this kind of drivel. I mean, at least those scammers are after your money.
quote:Originally posted by GaalDornick: That e-mail makes me depressed...that people are so stupid to actually forward on those things. I can imagine the conversation with Red Cross about the surgery - "Well, the surgery will cost alot of money, so instead of paying you the amount of money needed for the surgery we're going to make you play a miserable game where you have to get thousands of people to forward an e-mail so your mommy can survive. For some strange reason, it seems like a good idea." I wonder how many people actually believe that? I really hope it's zero.
You realize that there's absolutely no way to track how many times an email message has been forwarded, right?
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Another version of this particular email asks the recipient to send a copy back to a given email address so that "the Red Cross" can keep track of how many people have forwarded it.
That makes more technical sense if you believe the scam-- and shows that their actual intention was probably to net email addresses.
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"You realize that there's absolutely no way to track how many times an email message has been forwarded, right?"
I do, but I'd understand if people didn't know that. It doesn't take common sense to know that it's impossible, you just have to know the fact. The Red Cross part though just requires common sense to know it's not true. Very basic common sense.
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I wonder how many people actually believe that? I really hope it's zero.
