PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW

[K8MHZ]

Don't forward stuff to people!!!!

I just had to remove a very nice gentleman from a mailing list I moderate because he kept forwarding hoaxes to the list. #Of course he did not know they were hoaxes. #The whole thing turned into a huge mess.

I am so sick of messages that contain phrases similar to 'forward this to everyone in your address book' especially when the authors of the hoaxes go on to say that terrible things will happen to people if they don't.

I sure wish I had a good idea as to stop this form of Internet illness. #I REALLY wish I could get my hands around the scrawny necks of the people that manufacture such garbage and thus take advantage of people's kind nature and innocence.

(Edited to correct error that slipped by my spell checker)

[n8yx]

Sounds like you've encountered *One of these lovely individuals* (http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/typhoidmary.htm).

During my 'career' as SysOp of various boards/forums, this has been my LEAST favorite user to deal with ... http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

[n1ydx]

Yes.....Beat them with cable modem connectors.

I got one yesterday that seemed very innocent from a frequent emailer friend. Glad my Norton Anti-Virus and spam check was working because it was a direct link to a 'chain virus' but was caught before it did anything.

I notified the sender ( reply to all so the other 40 to 60 folks would get it also ) that in the future, I would prefer she not send me links to cute cards for the holidays or her religious internet prayer messages that, as a good christian I would have to send to 10 people within 5 minutes or suffer bad luck.

And I REALLY hate getting a message that someone forwards without cutting and pasting so that I get to see the 4 pages of previous mailings.

Aaarrgghhhhh

N1YDX - Lee

[N2RJ]

I have filters in my incoming mail.

[KD6NIG]

I like replying to them with the snopes link proving it wrong.

Weird Al has a good song called "Virus Alert" on his current album that addresses some of these.

But replying with fact works well, I get apologies, or a lot of the times, dropped from the distribution list. Which works for me.

I've heard some estimates that Virus distribution (all methods) as well as chain email consume up to 45% of the current internet traffic. I would have agreed, before the advent of youtube, of course, but I bet things would be much faster and mailserver computers less taxed if they got rid of some of these http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[K0RGR]

I'll have to get Wierd Al's latest album, I guess.

My dear wife has a coworker that bombards us with patriotic and religious emails, many of which turn out to be pure hokum. My mother has a cousin who does the same. Even after showing them the 'Snopes' analysis debunking their story, they will often insist that it is still true!

Any mail that threatens you or offers to reward you if you send it to a large number of people is a 'chain letter' and most companies forbid the use of their email systems for sending them. I have asked the people that send them to me to stop doing it for that reason, because my employer doesn't like it.

[nx6d]

Quote[/b] (K0RGR @ July 05 2007,08:49)]
Quote[/b] ]My dear wife has a coworker that bombards us with patriotic and religious emails, many of which turn out to be pure hokum. My mother has a cousin who does the same. Even after showing them the 'Snopes' analysis debunking their story, they will often insist that it is still true!

You mean like snakes on oil platforms?

[KD6NIG]

I love the ones I get with warnings like:

FORWARD THIS NOW OR YOU WILL HAVE BAD LUCK FOR THE NEXT 7 YEARS.

Those ones I purposely ignore. I personally welcome any curse placed upon me by the failure of me to hit my forward button on my mail client fast enough http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[n2nh]

There's a new one out there. It asks you to reset your YouTube password and even knows your YouTube name. Which most likely means they have a memberlist but not a password list. Be very careful with this one. Unless you have asked to reset your password, YouTube isn't going to ask you this one.

[kg6top]

I just recieved my thirty million dollars from nigeria. Have any of you got yours yet?

[N3ATS]

What I do is hit "Reply All" and send this back to the original sender and everyone on the list. Some people love it, some threaten to report you to your ISP, some swear at you. But it's the best freaking chain letter ever written!

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Hello, my name is ___ and I suffer from the guilt of not forwarding 50 billion **CENSORED** chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe that if you send them on, a poor 6-year-old girl in Arkansas with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her to a traveling freak show.

Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you, and everyone to whom you send "his" email, $1000?

How stupid are you?

"Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I'll get laid by a model I just happen to run into the next day!"

What a bunch! of **CENSORED**.

Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my house and sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing a chain letter that was started by Peter in 5 AD and brought to this country by midget pilgrims on the Mayflower.

**CENSORED** 'em.

If you're going to forward something, at least send me something mildly amusing. I've seen all the "send this to 10 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive a nickel from some omniscient being" forwards about 90 times.

I don't **CENSORED** care.

Show a little intelligence and think about what you're actually contributing to by sending out these forwards. Chances are, it's our own unpopularity.

The point being? If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it. If it's funny, send it on.

Don't piss people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth who has been tied to the ass of a dead elephant for 27 years and whose only salvation is the 5 cents per letter he'll receive if you forward this email.

Now forward this to everyone you know.

Otherwise, tomorrow morning your underwear will turn carnivorous and will consume your genitals.

Have a nice day.

Ps...Send me 15 bucks

[W5HTW]

The ones I hate the most are those "if you love me forward this to ten friends and send it back to me." My God, how incredibly lonely does someone have to be to send out an email to be sent back to them? May as well drop a self-addressed love letter in the US mail. I mean, that has got to be the sickest kind of pitiful lonely.

However, I discovered something!

Yes!!! I have a DELETE key! and I use it on everything that even vaguely resembles a hoax, chain letter, or other type of junk stuff. Not much gets through, thanks to AT&T's spam filters, but when something does, I look for that "DEL" key! Works wonders.

I follow NO links i receive by email. I don't send lonely self-love letters back to anyone. If they think I don't love them, hell, they may be right!

edit: I cured a couple of good friends of sending me those "send this back to me" junk things. I didn't send it to ten people. I sent it back to my friends, ten times each. And sometimes an extra time just for the heck of it.

Incidentally, I do the same thing to the Nigerian scammers. I send their stuff back to them, along with suggestions about how they should use their goats, and then demand they send me a good faith deposit of $5,000 USD immediately.

And those young gals from Uganda who drop me notes and tell me they are seeking a good man to love forever? I tell them to hurry and catch a plane to Miami, and I'll meet them at the airport with a minister. I have no idea how many are standing around waiting for me.

I HATE Junk mail! If all those idiots would go away the internet would be three times as fast.



Ed

[KG6YTZ]

Quote[/b] (n8yx @ July 05 2007,05:03)]Sounds like you've encountered *One of these lovely individuals* (http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/typhoidmary.htm).
{browses a bit} #Great stuff. #I LOVE IT! #Thanks for that - I'll put the home page (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/) in my Link-O-Rama.

My mom, bless her heart, seems to use most of her e-mail time for forwarding stuff - "Send this WISHING ANGEL to ten friends," etc. #[Edit: I can always tell when she has recently been online to read her mail, because I will suddenly have anywhere from four to a dozen such new mails from her, forwarded to her by relatives and old friends.] I also get frequent forwards from a ham friend, but at least some of that stuff is occasionally... uh... visually appealing. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

KD6NIG: Okay, I won't send you a copy of that "Stinky Cheese" e-mail I just got... #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[KF0RT]

I get all mine from a neocon friend. Man, those guys will believe ANYTHING. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

73, Rob

[KI4ITV]

I cannot tell a lie...
I'm not here because I never open documents like this.

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[KD6NIG]

Quote[/b] (n2nh @ July 05 2007,10:04)]There's a new one out there. It asks you to reset your YouTube password and even knows your YouTube name. Which most likely means they have a memberlist but not a password list. Be very careful with this one. Unless you have asked to reset your password, YouTube isn't going to ask you this one.
They don't have a list. You can start browsing people, and it will list who they have added to their list by username. They are easily harvested.

The rest is guessing, probably, or they have a way to check out the mailto links.

You'd be surprised how much actual harvesting occurs. All in the name of spam. Imagine if 1% of that went to developing new internet technology.

Though I wonder what they would do with your id if they got it for youtube. Maybe try the same password/userid on other sites, or post smut under your id?

[ab8ma]

Quote[/b] (W5HTW @ July 06 2007,02:07)]However, I discovered something! #

Yes!!! I have a DELETE key! # and I use it on everything that even vaguely resembles a #hoax, chain letter, or other type of junk stuff. Not much gets through, thanks to AT&T's spam filters, but when something does, I look for that "DEL" key! #Works wonders.
I have one better. Hold the SHIFT key AND the DEL when deleting anything. This really incinerates it, without sending it to an intermediatory (yes intermediatory) waste basket.

[K8MHZ]

Quote[/b] (N3ATS @ July 05 2007,13:24)]What I do is hit "Reply All" and send this back to the original sender and everyone on the list. #Some people love it, some threaten to report you to your ISP, some swear at you. #But it's the best freaking chain letter ever written!

Quote[/b] ]
Hello, my name is ___ and I suffer from the guilt of not forwarding 50 billion **CENSORED** chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe that if you send them on, a poor 6-year-old girl in Arkansas with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her to a traveling freak show.

Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you, and everyone to whom you send "his" email, $1000?

How stupid are you?

"Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I'll get laid by a model I just happen to run into the next day!"

What a bunch! of **CENSORED**.

Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my house and sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing a chain letter that was started by Peter in 5 AD and brought to this country by midget pilgrims on the Mayflower.

**CENSORED** 'em.

If you're going to forward something, at least send me something mildly amusing. I've seen all the "send this to 10 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive a nickel from some omniscient being" forwards about 90 times.

I don't **CENSORED** care.

Show a little intelligence and think about what you're actually contributing to by sending out these forwards. Chances are, it's our own unpopularity.

The point being? If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it. #If it's funny, send it on.

Don't piss people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth who has been tied to the ass of a dead elephant for 27 years and whose only salvation is the 5 cents per letter he'll receive if you forward this email.

Now forward this to everyone you know.

Otherwise, tomorrow morning your underwear will turn carnivorous and will consume your genitals.

Have a nice day.

Ps...Send me 15 bucks
I love it!

Thanks. I can't wait to use it.

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[AG3Y]

Used to get "chain letters" via USPS in the dark ages. Now it's "chain E-Mail" ! Not that much different, just easier to send !

Been going on forever.

Yaaaahhhnnnn !