creepy `forwarded' text message

[hogshead]

Has anyone else received this text message? I thought it was a bit on the threatening side for a round robin' text. The text goes like this (excuse the text' speak):

` a baby girl needs a heart transplant & the phone company is donating £2 every time this is forwarded (no lie). Karma will repay you. well if you dont forward and if you were that lil girl how would u like it if someone didnt send this to 10ppl or as many as you can for FREE'

Call me scepitical but i cant quite believe it so i've not forwarded it but please correct me if i'm wrong and the story is true

also excuse the spelling think that should be sceptical

that is horrible. don't do it.

Forwarded text messages are full of shite.

Modern chain letter stuff.

Delete.

Your instincts are spot on!

here, yes, a hoax

IT's bollocks.

HOw would phone company know how many times it had been sent on for a start?

see snopes for details

crap

Who on earth believed that and sent it on to you!?

Thats awful and quite obviously not true.

Why do people send rubbish like that?

a friend sent it on - cant quite believe why she sent it - i'm not a fan of these `send it on' texts or emails so i normally just delete but this was creepy

ooh what marvellous links to those websites! i shall save them in my favourites for future reference!

Any friend of mine who sent that would be getting a flea in their ear big time.

hogshead at the risk of sounding harsh, I have a policy of never sending on any forwarded text or e-mail of this nature, regardless of whether it seems genuine or not.

I just delete them all, without a second thought. I don't even waste spend time checking them out on Snopes.

I give my time/money in other ways to 100% genuine causes and I feel happy with that.

You are right to be skeptical of this one as others have said.

I really really hate all this forwarding on chain email/texts from adults

I have gone off a previously good friend hugely because she forwards all this crap onto me

I had some rubbish yesterday about 'accurate horoscopes for 2010' quite obviously written by a child followed up by AND IF YOU DON'T SEND THIS ON YOU WILL GET 10 YEARS BAD LUCK, HORRIBLE THINGS WILL START HAPPENING FIRST THING TOMORROW MORNING'

what kind of twat forwards that?

tbh i do just tend to delete as they take up too much room in my inbox! what kind of people think these up?

I just don't get why an ADULT thinks it is appropriate to send that to another adult

and tbh how they don't feel slightly thick doing it

perhaps though i was slightly thick for that first minute when i thought `OMG! i must do this!' before resumming normal thinking

teenage hoaxers at work here, and I send those shite emails back to adults who should no better as well as the link to snopes some people are soo gullible it defies belief God help us with the election looming!