To HATE chain-emails

[Frasersmum123]

Someone I know has just sent me an e-mail warning me that something awful will happen to someone I love if I dont pass on thier stupd email to 20 people before the end of the day!

They are so F-ing stupid, I really cant stand chain e-mails, or the posings you get on FB - they pray on vunerable people.

I hate these too.

A couple of my old work colleagues that I still keep in contact with are the worst offenders.

I never forward them and just delete them, although if they are ones that involve you having to send it back to the person you receive them from (to show how much they mean to you/to bring them luck etc)I tend to email them and explain that they won't get it back as I "don't do" chain emails and that its not because I hate them (hopefully the message will get through to stop sending them to me)

About 6 years ago in Indiana, Carmen Winstead was Pushed down a sewer opening by 5 girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a fire drill. When she didnt resurface the police were called. They went down and brought up 17 year old Carmen Winsteads Body, her Neck broken from hitting the ladder, then the side concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone That she fell... They beleived them.
Tazalyn Silvercat: About 6 years ago in Indiana, Carmen Winstead was Pushed down a sewer opening by 5 girls in her school, trying to embarrass her in front of her school during a fire drill. When she didnt resurface the police were called. They went down and brought up 17 year old Carmen Winsteads Body, her Neck broken from hitting the ladder, then the side concrete at the bottom. The girls told everyone That she fell... They beleived them.

FACT: 2 months ago, 16 year old David Gregory read this post, and didnt repost it. When he went to take a shower he heard laughter from his shower, He started freaking out and ran to his computer to repost it. He said godnight to his mom and went to sleep, 5 hours later His mom woke up in the middle of the night because of a loud noise. David was gone, that morning a few hours later the police found him in the sewer His neck Broken and Face skin peeled off.

If you dont repost this saying
"She was pushed!" Or " They Pushed her down a sewer"

Then Carmen will get you, either from a sewer, the toilet, the shower, or you will go to sleep and wake up in the sewer, in the dark then Carmen will come and kill you.

This was sent to my 10 year old DD

I was furious with the parents of the 9 yr old it came from and then also with my DD for passing it on.

Good Lord!! That's the worst one I've read, Paula!

There's a stupid one going round by post saying it's the longest chain letter in the world and if the kids don't forward it on to 6 of their friends they'll be "found out" (as it's being "tracked" by Guiness World of Records) and EVERYONE will know it was they who had let the team down. I have binned all of them ( and we've had a few).

Gosh Paula, thats awful!

why do people do it?

I hate them too. The following can be sent to people who really annoy you with this shite -
Dear All
My thanks to all those who have sent me emails this past year?.....
I must send my thanks to whoever it was who sent me the one about cockroach eggs 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 a lot of savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown); who is about to die in hospital for the 1,387,258th time.

Or signed across my bank accoutn details to 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.

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 ? just as well really!

I no longer can buy petrol without having to watch and make sure that a serial killer won?t crawl in my back seat when I?m filling up and later grab me from behind whilst drawing a jagged edged blade across my throat.

I no longer go to shopping centres because someone will drug me with a male deodorant sample and rob me after using me as a sex toy -

I no longer answer the phone 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 ? posing as Borat on the other end of the line!

Thanks also, cause now 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 the great advice I?ve been sent, I can?t even pick up the £5.00 I found dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a pervert molester waiting underneath my car waiting to grab me and have his way with me.

If you don?t send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhoea will land on your head at 5:00pm this afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump.

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

Hate these too. I usually ignore them. The Facebook things i ignore too. I use FB to communicate a little with some friends in far away places and I like it for that. I do not want to be sent a virtual anything thank you very much!

Loving that reply Hecate! Must remember it.

It's really funny, isn't it? Makes me laugh every time I read it.

I thought chain letters/ e-mails were illegal?

I think if they are trying to get money from you (pyramid schemes for example) then they are illegal. But I'm not sure that the 'pass this to all your friends within 10 minutes and you'll win the lottery and have an orgasm every time you press your nose' type is illegal

That email was horrible Paula! It really conforts me in not letting Dcs have personal email accounts yet!

Hecate I really enjoyed your replies!

Get a good spam filter!
AVG.com do a free one

Miggsie - a spam filter doesn't work if you get them from friends unfortunately!

Hecate - I must have missed the one about the orgasm every time I press my nose. I wouldn't mind that one!

YANBU

obviously

Paula a few years ago when I was 17 a friend recieved one very similar to that from her 11 year old sister, only this one contained a horrible picture with the promise that this mutilated girl in the picture would haunt you at night if you didn't pass it on.

Luckily my friend was mature enough to tell her parents but her sister was absolutely terrified by this email and really believed it was true. I think the parents mentioned it to the school who had a word with all of the children in the year but still - who would make something like that knowing full well children would see it and believe it?!

Sorry, what did you say buda? Have been a bit, erm, busy all afternoon. anyone got any germolene?

What do I DO about these sick chain mails?

I am posting here because my DD(10) just received a chain mail almost identical to the one Paula quoted, and another one whose title is 'daddy it hurts' and tells the story of a 3-year old being murdered by his Dad smashing him against a wall.

My DD showed me the messages, I was not prying and part of the deal of her having an email account was that, for the time being at least, I am allowed to look at what she receives and sends.

This is not the first time it has happened, the first time I contacted the school and they did a general 'don't send each other nasty email' type talk but it has obviously not made any difference.

Trouble is, all these messages contain a kind of 'if you dont send this on, something bad will happen' clause. I genuinely think some kids are terrified by them, and pass them on.

My DD is mortified at the thought of me contacting her classmates, some of whom are friends, but I don't know how to tackle the problem.

Any ideas?

There are websites - my favourite two being Hoaxslayer and Breakthechain which investigate all spam/malicious e-mails and expose them for what they really are and might be useful for you and your kids...

I remember a particular one which showed a "photo" taken in a hospital of a horrible ghostly figure witing under a bed to get the person who refused to forward the mail on. Both websites proved that the picture was a still taken from a Japanese horror movie and completely dispelled the myth.

Might help stop some nightmares? Or at leat show them how silly these mails can be...

Alternatively, googling the first couple of sentences of the mail usually brings up the truth.

Break the Chin has some wonderful reply mails too just like Hecate's

Make the parents of whoever sent it aware and suggest that they do the same with whoever sent it to their child, so it hopefully gets passed back up the chain? Or suggest to the school that they run an assembly for the whole school specifically about this type of nasty email, with parents attending? It needs to be taken seriously as its a nasty insidious form of bullying and as you say, the poor kids involved are just passing it on through genuine fear. They need to be reassured that its total rubbish and that they should always show their parents. Easier said than done though I guess!

Thanks, Sarah L - I have taught DD how to use 'Snopes', a Hoax-slayer type thing, and she had already checked out one herself before she asked me about it.

Its more that these things are so upsetting, and although my DD speaks to me, there are obviously lots of kids who are not able to talk to anyone about it and get scared.

What about emailing everyone who has passed it on, suggesting they show the message to an adult?

DD does not want me to do anything which identifies her, as she says its just too embarrassing.