How To Break The Chain...Letter!
By wrdsofwisdm
@wrdsofwisdm (1069)
United States
November 11, 2007 12:11am CST
Don't ya just love when people you hardly talk to decide to email you a chain letter and they want you to torture your friends by forwarding it to them? Well I recently received such a letter requesting that I forward it to 20 people or doom would fall upon me. So I came up with a simple solution. This particular item that has to be sent is a picture of Mother Mary, so I attached it to this discussion so all can view it. This way anyone who sees it does Not Have to send anything and I did my part by sharing it with a percentage of our large myLot community. Hopefully at least 20 of you see it, so I don't have doom fall upon me. Has anyone here had bad luck after ignoring a chain letter?
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@ryan0583 (30)
• United States
12 Nov 07
Sound like you won't have doom come on you. HEHE! I think the sender of the letter will get doom for sending you junk. Also another scam to watch out for would be the 419 scammers from Nigera that claim they want to do a business deal with you by using your bank account to transfer large sums of money. They end up stealing your money and getting into your bank account.
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@wrdsofwisdm (1069)
• United States
12 Nov 07
Oh yeah I remember that...I got one of those once and started laughing, then reported it. How can anyone fall for that one? It's crazy, lol
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@mari_skye (1637)
• Philippines
12 Nov 07
I never really liked chain letters. And with all the chain letters that I have ignored, I shouldn't be writing this response now with all the bad luck that I have accumulated, LOL! The sky hasn't fallen on me yet, so I guess those chain letters should not be taken seriously. Sometimes though, when I receive chain letters that really tell something wonderful, what I do is to delete the chain part. With this, I don't have to bother my friends.
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@wrdsofwisdm (1069)
• United States
12 Nov 07
I do that too because then it doesn't annoy my friends with it. Chain letters are just plain annoying.
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@4monsters4me (2569)
• United States
11 Nov 07
I don't believe in chain letters and refuse to pass them on. When I get them in my mail I just delete them. The worst offenders for me are my one aunt and uncle (who just keep sending me the same ones over and over). I no longer read any of the mail they send me, I just delete it as I get it.
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@wrdsofwisdm (1069)
• United States
11 Nov 07
How annoying for them to do that on a regular basis. This partiucular sender has never sent me one before. He usually sends me funny jokes, so I assumed it was one and opened it...I politely scolded him for it too. ;)
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@ItTakesAllSorts (4096)
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11 Nov 07
I never respond to these stupid chain letters, its all a load of rubbish.
What power has a few words got through a computer, none!!
Years ago these would be sent through the post and some very superstitious people believed they would receive bad luck if they did not post it on.
All it does is pray on peoples worries that it may bring them doom and gloom if they do not pass it on, but realistically, does it...the answer is NO.
If anyone receives these chain letters, delete them and forget them, all the threats are a load of bull.
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@wrdsofwisdm (1069)
• United States
11 Nov 07
You are absolutely right about the superstition. The only power these chain letters have is to actually bring on negative thoughts which throws us off a little.
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@livewyre (2450)
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23 Nov 07
It's irresponsible to send chain letters like that in case the person who receives them gets genuinely worried about what might happen to them. You did right not to spread the misery by sending it to other people.
I always tell friends who are worried by such things to re-direct that sort of unthinking rubbish mail to me and I will take total responsibility for putting them straight into the trash.
Nobody has the right to spread fear and misery with what is no more than a childish prank. It's just a pity that so many people feel the need to respond to them 'just in case'...
Don't worry about the 'doom' some fourteen year old kids thought this up in their bedroom, there is no 'doom' it's merely a prank - take my word for it.
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
12 Nov 07
It drives me crazy when ppl forward me those types of things and then end it by saying if I don't forward it I'll be doomed for eternity. I usually just delete it and move on.
"COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS"
**AT PEACE WITHIN**
~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
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@wrdsofwisdm (1069)
• United States
12 Nov 07
Amen to that. That's why I decided to just add the picture here so many see it and I beat the system by not torturing anyone, ;)
@maribea (2366)
• Italy
11 Nov 07
oh I don't believe in chain letters, not anymore at least because when I was a child I remember spending beautiful moments with my friends exchanging little messages and little pictures...we didn't use computers or emails so we really wrote little letters or copied drawings..it was a lot of fun and we do believed it was a good way to send luck and happiness!!! We were children, after all. Now that I am a little grown up I cannot stand chain letters anymore seeing that they come from adult people who cannot really believe in such a foolish thing. So I simply don't answer them or don't pay much attention at them unless it is something important like a request for help in finding bone marrow and so on. Is this the reason why I am facing so many troubles during this period of my life???? He he I am joking of course. By the way I wrote to you from my yahoo address...did you receive the mail? I will try again if the aswer is no. have a nice day...mine has just started
@wrdsofwisdm (1069)
• United States
11 Nov 07
Yes, I like your new screen name ;).
At least you and your creative friends would send good luck to eachother. I remember receiving a typed chain letter from an anonymous person in the mail when I was a teenager and I was so angry that someone would curse me that way, haha...true story.
I will be sending you a personal email soon. Have been doing home improvements...trying to get done before Thanksgiving.
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@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
12 Nov 07
I rarely forward any chain letters. I don't believe in them and the fact that it's telling me that my good luck, or love or anything else depends on forwarding it to someone just irritates me.
SOmetimes the content is actually interesting - not often, but sometimes - and I might want to share it with one or two of my friends, in which case I just copy it minus the request to forwarding and send it to them, but this is very rare.
However I have been keeping the emails of people who send them to me. SO when I get a new one that asks me to forward it to 588 people I just grab the email addresses of the people who have been sending me chain letters as well as the ones of some of the unrequested junk mail I received and forward it to them . I have a special email address to do this, so it doesn't come back on my main email, I"m sure they will all love a taste of their own medicine:)
@wrdsofwisdm (1069)
• United States
12 Nov 07
Now that's a very clever way to give them a dose of their own medicine. Great idea.
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@wisedragon (2325)
• Philippines
12 Nov 07
I always break the chain. I have received countless chain emails over the years. I always ignore them with a laugh. They have threatened all sorts of bad things would happen to me. Guess what, I'm still alive! And Bill Gates is still not giving away thousands of dollars to those who forwarded the so-called "beta test" chain letter. LOL
@leeesa (884)
• United States
12 Nov 07
I was getting these regularly from a few family members and friends. Since I always send mass email using BCC, I only send them back to the person who sent them to me. They don't know they were the only one because they can't see who I sent it too. A few of them have gotten the hint and stopped sending them to me and there has been no harm to our relationship. :)
@spiderlizard22 (3444)
• United States
11 Nov 07
I don't even read the whole chain letter. I just put it in the trash.
@wrdsofwisdm (1069)
• United States
12 Nov 07
I avoid them as much as possible too. A buddy that sends me jokes slipped it in with no title so unfortunately, I opened it.
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@wrdsofwisdm (1069)
• United States
11 Nov 07
That's the problem with these chain letters...we all know it's bull...but some of us are a little superstitious (I am a little) and if things start going wrong after we ignored it, we can't help but think that stupid thing may have had something to do with it. Silly, I know.
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