Forwarding "too-good-to-be-true" emails

[hunkermunker]

Just had one that says that if I forward it to ten friends and copy in "[email protected]" Sainsbury's will send me a £60 voucher.

They won't. Don't fall for it.

And don't forward things like this on without checking whether or not they're scams - just google a relevant word or phrase from it or use snopes.com or other urban legends site.

Also, if you do forward these emails, and they ask for you to cc someone like Microsoft or Coca-Cola in on them, chances are all you're doing is sending ten live email addresses to a spammer. What a lovely thing to do to your friends, eh?!

So don't be a knob. Don't forward spam.

Sorry. Forgot none of you is a knob

I hate the bloody emails that go on about something wonderful happening if you send this on to at least ten friends etc.. or worse still, bad luck if you don't! This is obviously complete crap.. and yet I regularly get these things from perfectly intelligent friends who think they had better forward them 'just to be on safe side' or because 'I liked the wording in the email' (usually some cack or other about what a 'wonderful friend' I am! If they think I am 'wonderful' they can tell me via a normal email.. but obviously this is not the real reason they send them...!

Why are people so silly about this stuff! I just hit delete every time.. and I'm still here..

Hunker, yes had the same shitey email from a work colleague.

I had that one too, from my sis!
DELETE!
admit to falling for one about free champagne tho

Is it bad etiquette to email back "You tosser, stop sending me this shower of shite" to people who consistently send this stuff on, despite being asked nicely not to?

Hmmmm, pet hate alert.

I have several otherwise perfectly sane girlfriends who insist on sending me this drippy claptrap. They must have worked out by now that I never forward them? Why do they do it?

Hunker I have actually started just hitting 'reply all' even tho most of them are not MY contacts.. and saying 'are people still forwarding this crap?? WHY????'

I know. Ooh, look a cute email with little cartoon pandas making doe-eyes and flowers, and teddies and a schmaltzy poem. Who do they immediately think of to forward it to? Me.

Gah.

And the ones that say, "I'd better get this back, coz I wanna know Im ur friend" - well, if you keep forwarding me this kind of drivel, you won't be much longer! Feck off!

Ahem.

LOL SJ!

Ninah - your drink problem is obviously rearing it's head

Hunker have you still got that link ?

The one with the guy standing on the soapbox banging on about e-mails like this one.

I always delete without opening any emails sent from an unknown source. Problem is, if it's a friend you might think its harmless. You could always send an email to all your friends asking them never to send you anything like this.

i got one once about women being date raped abd steralise with a pill and replied to the original sender and everyone she emailed to, stating 'if you can be steralised with a pill why bother going to have an op?'

Ive never understood the forwarding thing. NOONE reads crap like that...do they?!

yes, well would have been equally moved by free choc or free jewels ...
sainsburys vouchers didn't really inspire the same level of cupidity

Any hoax ones I tend to email a reply all with a link to whatever site is explaining it is a hoax... didn't bother with sainsbury's because that meant replying to the harvester

Cor, LGJ, I'd forgotten all about that link!

I posted it on here, did I?

Brain the size of a pea, honestly