Just Send This to 20 of Your Friends...
Yes, whenever you see that statement in one of your e-mails... make sure it never gets sent to even one of your friends... LOL...
Any email that emotionally blackmails, threatens, or cojoles me to send it to others get deleted no matter how good the content may be.
I find it hard to believe, but you really are a non-believer, aren’t you. Tsk-tsk-tsk!
I like the ones that say that after I send my 20 emails something weird or funny or totally awesome, will happen on my computer! It makes me wonder how long the person who sent the email to me sat and stared at their screen waiting for something to happen!
Several weeks ago I sent the following to friends who send me these things, but they sent me several more this morning anyway:
[I have been suspicious of chain Email and wondered if they are schemes to gather addresses to be spammed. That is why I don’t answer or forward them. This morning I searched Yahoo for “chain mail phishing” and came up with these excerpts from the Online Safety Fraud Prevention section at Microsoft.com:
How to handle suspicious e-mail
There are good reasons to be suspicious of e-mail.
Some e-mail messages might be phishing scams, some might carry viruses. Images in spam e-mail might turn out to be pornographic, or to include Web beacons, which can be adapted to secretly send a message back to the sender.
Follow these guidelines to help protect yourself when suspicious mail shows up in your Inbox
9. Don’t forward chain e-mail messages
Not only do you lose control over who sees your e-mail address, but you also may be furthering a hoax or aiding in the delivery of a virus.
Plus, there are reports that spammers start chain letters expressly to gather e-mail addresses. If you don’t know whether a message is a hoax or not, a site like Snopes can help you separate fact from fiction.
[Definition from Wikipedia: In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.]
I will add this special caution to anyone using a company or government computer: Just now on FOX News, there was a story about “Spear Phishing” which means that if ONE employee allows it in, it can access the entire network. Many are originating in China. This could be a major breach of privacy and security.]
I’m glad to finally see people discouraging chain letters on a republican forum.
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