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RE: WTF is this mail :|
I can't see how no one mentioned this.

It's not real at all. At all.

It's just a way to build an up to date spam list easily and by "hiring" volunteers that think they are helping a research project about what... oh, right, an University project for stats about what percentage of e-mails are chains! So how the hell are they going to get their percentages if you are only supposed to forward them chain letters? I mean, they'll get a 100% ratio.

Simple: you forward them a chain letter with your friend's addresses, your friends' friends' addresses, your friends' friends' friends' addresses and so on typed just nicely in plain text right there in the "to:" and "cc:" fields of the quoted messages. They parse the emails they receive, grab all the addresses, build an all new spam list from all your friends, friends' friends, friends' friends' friends, etc. and, hopefully, in a month send this very same request to all those addresses as well. Another chain reaction starts, with the result being them getting a fairly good quality database of people who are screaming to receive advertisements. After, em, of course, graduating from that fabulous university that studies e-mail chains *cough* :P
06-03-2005 02:45 AM
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WTF is this mail :| - by John Anderton on 06-02-2005 at 07:20 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by Stigmata on 06-02-2005 at 07:21 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by absorbation on 06-02-2005 at 07:22 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by Stigmata on 06-02-2005 at 07:25 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by John Anderton on 06-02-2005 at 07:27 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by Millenium_edition on 06-02-2005 at 07:35 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by John Anderton on 06-02-2005 at 07:48 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by CookieRevised on 06-02-2005 at 09:17 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by John Anderton on 06-02-2005 at 09:22 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by DJeX on 06-02-2005 at 09:28 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by RaceProUK on 06-02-2005 at 09:41 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by Ash_ on 06-02-2005 at 09:42 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by jren207 on 06-03-2005 at 01:22 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by Guido on 06-03-2005 at 02:45 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by dylan! on 06-03-2005 at 03:12 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by guanako on 06-03-2005 at 03:15 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by dylan! on 06-03-2005 at 03:25 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by guanako on 06-03-2005 at 03:32 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by Guido on 06-03-2005 at 03:36 AM
RE: RE: WTF is this mail :| - by guanako on 06-03-2005 at 03:38 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by SikStyles on 06-03-2005 at 03:53 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by WDZ on 06-03-2005 at 03:57 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by Guido on 06-03-2005 at 03:58 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by mwe99 on 06-03-2005 at 05:18 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by Purity on 06-03-2005 at 05:38 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by ddunk on 06-03-2005 at 05:49 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by segosa on 06-03-2005 at 05:52 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by Guido on 06-03-2005 at 05:54 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by John Anderton on 06-03-2005 at 07:55 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by saralk on 06-03-2005 at 08:43 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by user27089 on 06-03-2005 at 09:12 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by CookieRevised on 06-03-2005 at 10:53 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by RaceProUK on 06-03-2005 at 11:55 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by jren207 on 06-03-2005 at 03:22 PM
RE: RE: WTF is this mail :| - by Guido on 06-03-2005 at 03:35 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by jren207 on 06-03-2005 at 05:47 PM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by CookieRevised on 06-04-2005 at 03:34 AM
RE: WTF is this mail :| - by -rafy- on 06-04-2005 at 08:19 AM


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