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Nasty chain e-mail

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MightyAphrodite · 07/08/2011 11:27

I thought my chain-letter days were over, but I just opened a message from a friend, and when I saw how many times it had already been forwarded, I realized what it was. Before I could hit 'delete' though, my eye strayed to the first line of the message and all those awful feelings I got when someone sent me a chain-letter came back. I know I'm not in for any more bad luck than normal for not replying, but it's playing on my mind, and I'm furious with this woman for sending it on to me. We're not particularly close, though her son was in my class last year. I'm thinking of mailing her and asking her to remove me from her contacts. WWYD?

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MJHASLEFTTHEBUILDING · 07/08/2011 11:31

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SandStorm · 07/08/2011 11:32

I would just delete and ignore if it's the first time she's done it. If she's a repeat offender and she doesn't send other, important emails, then just block her.

SayItLoud · 07/08/2011 11:34

Why do you get awful feelings with chain letters? Aren't they just mildly irritating?

DuelingFanjo · 07/08/2011 11:35

I would reply to all with a message saying it's just superstitious rubbish but can be really upsetting so please don't send any more. If it's something on snopes then include a link. That's what I do.

Yourefired · 07/08/2011 11:46

Delete the nasty thing, silly woman for sending such stuff out. Don't mention it and assume a daft one-off event.

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MightyAphrodite · 07/08/2011 11:54

I don't know why this upset me so much. It must just have brought back memories of when I was a shy, fairly insecure 10 year-old, finding anonymous letters, with real threats in them, in my school bag. Then they were all about something happening to your dog/parents/siblings. Now it's something happening to your children, which presumably is what shocked me, out of the blue on a Sunday morning. It's just I'd never do this to anyone.

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Yourefired · 07/08/2011 11:54

Delete the nasty thing, silly woman for sending such stuff out. Don't mention it and assume a daft one-off event.

Yourefired · 07/08/2011 12:03

Sorry posted twice by mistake. Don't understand myself why people would send on, unless they're scared of the consequences of not sending. Try not to take personally sounds like many others also been hit. Thoughtlessness seems to be root of it.

flimflammery · 07/08/2011 12:14

Send her a message saying, ' I think your computer has been targeted by a virus which has sent out nasty and threatening messages to people on your address book, including me - see below'.

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MightyAphrodite · 07/08/2011 13:06

Many thanks. Things are back in perspective now! It was just such a shock at first.

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northerngirl41 · 07/08/2011 16:04

i always feel like I'm doing the sender a massive favour by beingstrong enough to delete these without a second thought - most people only forward them on as they're too scared to ignore/delete them.

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MightyAphrodite · 07/08/2011 16:20

It's easy to delete the 'send this on and your luck will triple' type, but this one was vicious - 'if you don't send this on, very bad things will happen to your family'. Why do people start these things?

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TrillianAstra · 07/08/2011 16:36

"Please don't send me emails like that again, they are unpleasant and do not make me think kindly of you."

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