to hate those f*cking sick chain emails and the idiots who send them to me?!

[Disenchanted]

FFS, I dont want to open my mailbox to find some made up sob story of a poor child burnt in a fire and be told I have to forward the email to as many people as I can so she will recieve 3 cents per email!! 3 cents from who exactly?!

Who makes these things up??!

Worst of all this one actully had a picture of some poor darling who had been burnt!

Thats someones daughter FFS

I got this one too, and was furious.

It was forwarded by a very kind, well meaning person.

3 cents per forward going to the parents???? HOW????

Such a sad photo

Thats the thing! The person I got it from is a nice lady, but obviosly very gulible!

How do people thnk these are real?!

I hate them. The only way to deal with them is the second you detect a chain thing, just stop reading and delete immediately (if you're wrong and it's something important or relevant, the person will contact you again anyway eventually). It only upsets you if you read them. File them mentally as junk mail and deserving of the same treatment, even if it is a friend that's sent it.

This ohot was a shocker, though. The baby has such beautiful eyes. Not a picture easily forgotton.

I haven't seen it so I realise I might be wrong, but the picture might not even be real. There are some famous examples of chain scare story emails with photoshopped pictures.

What do they get out of sending these? A sick sense of satisfaction? I mean, they don't profit do they? So what's the point for them?

I had to tell my brother that the mail he sent about some girl who died from cancer, would not generate 1 dollar for every mail opened for the hospital. But he couldn't understand why else the email would be circulated. And I couldn't answer.

I saw it, it's very sad.

YANBU.

I got one today with very graphic photos of a man who died in a car crash. I can see his injuries and his face very clearly.
He is someones son, brother father husband and yet I saw things his relatives would probably be protected from in the normal course of events, but of course thanks to someone they probably weren't.

I hate chain emails. I just delete them. Do the same. They don't change your life or anyone elses.

I'm afraid that I don't delete them, but instead I reply to all asking them not to forward it on to anyone and giving them several links to articles proving it is fake.
I had one aquaintance that sent me one, then apologised for it being fake after I'd pointed it out - then a week later she sent me another one! I sent it back to all pointing out that it too was a fake. Eventually I think she got the message that ALL chain emails are fakes! Hopefully she won't send any more to anyone. She certainly hasn't sent me any more, thank God!

there all a hoax, I recieved one about a 10 month baby girl with lukemia, anyway i googled the parents name and it turns out its all a hoax as AOL (or watever internet provider) do not sposor thease kind of e-mails, i think its sick and a very touchy situation especally as there are people out there in those kinda situations.

I hate them

I send them back with a polite request that they check on www.snopes.com before sending me any more bollocks.

Nobody ever thanks me for enlightening them that public telephone handles in North London are not really being smeared with LSD. You'd think they'd be grateful.

They are all a load of bollocks.

I always send this in response:

Dear All, My thanks to all those who have forwarded me emails this past year........ I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat shit in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing. Also, I now have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason. I no longer have any savings because I gave them to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time. I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the £10,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program ...... Or from the senior bank clerk in Nigeria who wants to split £7 million with me for pretending to be a long lost relative of a customer who died intestate. I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa's novena has granted my every wish. I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day. Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes. Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca-Cola because it can remove toilet stains. I no longer can buy petrol without taking a man along to watch the car to ensure that a serial killer won't crawl into the back seat when I'm filling up. I no longer go to shopping centres because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me. I no longer answer the telephone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore and Uzbekistan. Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my bum. And thanks to your great advice, I can't even pick up the £5.00 I found dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg. If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large seagull with diarrhoea will land on your head at 5:00pm this afternoon and the fleas from 12 mangy camels will infest your backside, causing you to grow a hairy lump. I know this will occur, because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician. By the way....a South American scientist, after a lengthy study, has discovered, that people with low IQ who have infrequent sexual activity, always read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse. Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late.

YANBU. I hate chain mails and take pleasure from replying to sender and saying so.

People start those chain mails because they want to gather as many e-mail addresses as possible, generally to then market to spammers. That is why you see "send to everyone you know and cc me".

YANBU but would advise you to reply with this link www.hoax-slayer.com then you are actually helping the issue.
It gives info on all the bolleaux that is not true so they can all delete in good concience and not forward on to the world and his wife.

exactly CoteDAzur, that is why they send them

YANBU

I got a truly sick one today giving horrific graphic (and false) details about the Jamie Bulger case and claiming the boys who killed him were being released from prison and sent to start a new life in Australia. They were released years ago.

I am so because I have not been able to get those details out of my head all day. The person who sent it to me has sent similar rubbish before and I actually think less of her for being so bloody stupid. It would take her two seconds to google for the case and confirm the latest petition, begging letter or warning is rubbish. She also forwards them with all email addresses visible & so I get more spam.

The twisted freaks who adapt them for the various countries are truly scum.

I am honestly disappointed in certain people in my family and among my friends who apparently lack the quarter brain it would take to realize that these chain mails don't raise money for the sick/maimed/etc.

DELETE THEM ALL

I hate all the ones that say "Fwd this to 283762837462 people or your luck will run out and you will get leprosy"

I hate all the sick making ones as well saying "A friend is.... (enter appropriate fluffyism)"

I ALWAYS respond by pressing 'reply to all' and voicing my objections. Specially if it's one that you can easily find out is a scam online. I got that 'sign a petition about jamie Bulger' one and I went a bit mad.

I can't understand why anyone would count you as one of their best friends but still send a chain letter which says something horible will happen to you.

If you are one of those people who pass on this shite, shame on you.

PMSL Sheik. I think I will send your reply to my mum and her mates who persist in sending me this stuff, despite countless polite requests to cease and desist.

I delete them all, it drives me mad. I dont even read them now. Seen that one about Jamie Bulger and was sick to my stomach, could'nt get it out of my head. I now never read them nor pass them on..