Is anyone besides me sick to death of . . .

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. . . . . e-mails forwarded from friends and co-workers that promise good fortune, miracles, and any number of things if you forward to ten friends, repeat a simple prayer, forward within a certain amount of time, etc???

I even had one sender ask me to send it back so that she could see if I had 10 Christian friends.

Is this a way to scam for e-mail addresses?
 
Yes! I am so sick of those kinds of things! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!
 
I can’t hit the “delete” button fast enough with those annoyances, and my close friends know it!
 
I got one once that said a mother’s baby had brain cancer and she wasn’t able to pay the bills so she worked out a deal with AOL and Yahoo. They would give her 5 cents each time someone forwarded that e-mail to another person. Do you think emails like this are true??
 
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I got one once that said a mother’s baby had brain cancer and she wasn’t able to pay the bills so she worked out a deal with AOL and Yahoo. They would give her 5 cents each time someone forwarded that e-mail to another person. Do you think emails like this are true??
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No. No. No. A hundred times no. 🙂

This deals with the same issues:

snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.asp

Mike
 
I openly warn people that I will block all of their e-mails if they do this.
 
Anytime I receive an e-mail that is from someone I do know AND do not know and it has Fwd: Fwd Fwd in succession, I AUTOMATICALLY delete it. Zero tolerance, NO exceptions!

I do not trust the chance of either the computer attracting a virus when opening these OR finding out it’s just a bunch of nonsense junk and I wasted a few minutes reading it.

I mostly deal with one-on-one e-mails.

These also sound rather ‘superstious’. Does anyone think that way too?
 
I have sent e-mails to my friends to please not sent me any e-mails with “promises” attached to them – especially if they are supposed to have come from a saint or our Blessed Mother. I politely explain that those are superstitious and we are not to participate in that type of activity as Christians. We do not pray for our own gain (except spiritual). Also borders on the name it and claim it philosophy.
 
I had one friend that did this a lot. Every time it happened I checked the story at Snopes.com. If they had debunked it, which they usually had a year or more earlier, I sent their reference back
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I don’t get many any more. 😃
 
I never had this problem.🙂 But my friends know me,and they know what I don’t like.I never give my e-mail to co-workers.:nope: I don’t want to take the risk of any scam or virus…If they would…:banghead:
 
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Anytime I receive an e-mail that is from someone I do know AND do not know and it has Fwd: Fwd Fwd in succession, I AUTOMATICALLY delete it. Zero tolerance, NO exceptions!
I do not trust the chance of either the computer attracting a virus when opening these OR finding out it’s just a bunch of nonsense junk and I wasted a few minutes reading it.
I mostly deal with one-on-one e-mails.
These also sound rather ‘superstious’. Does anyone think that way too?
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Yes, I agree, it is a kind of superstition. The modern day equivalent of the “chain letter”. There have been any number out there lately that claim to “quote” St Therese of Lisieux, but they sound more like new age nonsense than anything that a Christian believer would say. (You know, all vague & think happy/get rich).The annoying thing is that this particular one has come around several times & I am now getting it from people I don’t know!
Once I realized what was going on, I started deleting the Fwd:Fwd:Fwd stuff, too. It’s a waste of time & energy to bother with it.
 
If it’s a promise of something like the brain cancer example given above, I usually hit a “reply all” with a link to snopes or urban legends to show it’s false.

If it’s a pass this along to 10 friends kind of thing, I got one of 2 courses. If it’s a good little story, I’ll strip it of all the “forward this” “make a wish” superstitious type garbage and forward it along. If it asks to send it back to the person that sent it, I’ll do the same thing and forward it back to them minus the superstitious stuff.
 
I just use the delete button. They annoy me tremendously but I guess I’m too polite to say anything to the senders.

They usually read like this, “Forward this message to 10 friends and you will good fortune…” :mad:
 
After you’ve deleted 77 messages without reading them:

…Make a wish – IT WILL COME TRUE WITHIN ONE DAY!!!

…And a SURPRISING ANIMATION will POP UP on your desktop!!!

…And BILL GATES will send you $1.000 CA$H!!!

…And he will deposit it directly into your NIGERIAN BANK ACCT!!!

…And you will receive an EMAIL with the PUNCHLINE to the Snowwhite JOKE!!!

…And this one time – at band camp – I deleted enough emails to get FREE dialysis for all my FRIENDS who aren’t AFRAID to say there CHRISTIANS!!!

…AND ITS ALL TRUE!!! A FRIEND OF A FRIEND TOLD ME SO!!!

You gotta :rotfl: or else you’ll :crying:,
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If it asks to send it back to the person that sent it, I’ll do the same thing and forward it back to them minus the superstitious stuff.
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Sweet.
 
I have a dear friend who does this at least once a week, not to hurt her feelings I just “act” as if I send them and always do the send back to her(the sender.) I know its kinda like lying but she otherwise is the best friend I ever had. It’s not worth bad feelings
 
I always delete and never reply. And my Protestant friend hasn’t stopped sending them yet. She never sends the one with Saints and the Blessed Mother in them – more of the “Are you ashamed of Jesus?” ones. I refuse to be blackmailed emotionally. And I refuse to badger my other friends in turn.
 
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