Tag: chain letters

  • Annoying get-rich-quick schemes

    06 Jul 2011 » 3 min read

    [Begin rant] I got an email yesterday, the content of which goes as follows: In 2011,  July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently happens  once every 823 years!  This is called ‘money bags’.  So send this on to 5 and money will arrive in 5 days. Based on Chinese Feng Shui,…

  • Your phone will ring!

    08 May 2006 » 4 min read

    I am fascinated by chain-letter type spam because it shows just how gullable people can be. In my junk mail folder this morning, was a message with a subject “FW: FW: This is SOOOOOOO Creepy” and the gist of the message was that if you read the entire message and made a wish, your wish…

  • Back on the chain gang

    03 Jan 2006 » 4 min read

    I received a chain message today, the first one in quite a while. It’s one that I’ve received before. It claims be advice on how to live your life fully. There’s no harm in that. Someone cared enough to forward it to me and that’s nice too. But these things really annoy me because they…