Once in a while I will receive some chain mail from friends regarding about saving someone by forwarding this e-mail to others. To be honest to tell everybody, I will delete the mail as soon as I found out. Cold-blooded right? But, did you all really spend some time thinking what can you help by forwarding the e-mail? Are you really helping them or you are just falling into a trap of spammer?
Seriously, did you believing by forward more e-mail to others and the one mention in the e-mail will receive more donation? Are you thinking by just forwarding more e-mail to others, will save the child from rape by others in Africa? I will tell you, you did not help anyone of them yet you are pulling all your friends in your contact list into the trap of scammer/spammer. This kind of e-mail is how they gather your e-mail address and sell to scammer/ spammer, or they are the scammer/spammer.
I just received 2 e-mails about South Africa's Child Protection Unit is to be closed and urges recipients to "sign" a message protesting the closure before sending it to others. After a simple search on Google, I found that the e-mail is just another scam e-mail.
Link:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/child-protection-unit-petition.html
http://www.joewein.net/hoax/hoax-saps-child-protection-unit.htm
http://www.saps.gov.za/org_profiles/core_function_components/fcs/hoax.htm
Now ask yourself, are you really helping others or you just a helper of scammer/spammer? Think twice before you forward an e-mail to your friend next time. A kind heart which trying to help others is good, but don’t let other misuse it.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Chain mail – Are you really helping others?
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2 comments:
Haha... yeah, it's irritating.. let's not forget the "MSN account close if u don't fwd this" emails. =_="
haha, when I receive the e-mail about MSN no longer free, I was very happy and delete it. Then I told myself "Yeah, no more friends will use MSN, then I can use other messenger d." (Although I'm half using Pidgin now...)
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