Monday, January 26, 2009

Email From a Frustrated Victim

Do you get useless emails that ask you to forward stuff to 200 different people so that God will  give you grace, a promotion or you will win a lottery? Are you frustrated of those emails and feel like you are a victim of mental harassment? Do you cry or pull your hair every time you see an email asking you to forward the email to 20 other people?

Here’s what you should do: Use the email from below and send them the material or link of this page.

Here is the email from a Victim frustrated of chain emails:

I wanted to thank all my friends and family who have forwarded chain letters to me... Because of your kindness:

  • I also donated all my savings to the Amy Bruce account. A sick girl that was about to die in the hospital about 7,000 times. (Poor girl! she's been 7 since 1993...)
  • I went bankrupt from bounced checks that I made expecting the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL were supposed to send me when I participated in their special e-mail program would arrive soon.
  • My free Nokia phone never arrived and neither did the free passes for a paid vacation to Disneyland.
  • I also stopped answering the phone for fear that they may ask me to dial a stupid number and then I get phone bill from hell with calls to Uganda, Singapore and Tokyo.
  • Made some Hundred wishes before forwarding those Ganesh Vandana, Tirupathi Balaji pics etc.. now most of those 'Wishes' are already married (to someone else)
  • I stopped drinking Coca Cola after I found out that it's good for removing toilet stains.
  • I stopped going to the movies for fear of sitting on a needle infected with AIDS.
  • I smell like a wet dog since I stopped using deodorants because they cause cancer.
  • I don't leave my car in the parking lot or any other place and sometimes I even have to walk about 7 blocks for fear that someone will drug me with a perfume sample and try to rob me.
  • I also stopped drinking anything out of a can for fear that I will get sick from the rat feces and urine.
  • When I go to parties, I don't look at any girl, no matter how hot she is, for fear that she will take me to a hotel, drug me then take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.
  • Still open to help some from Bulgaria who wants to use my account to transfer his uncle property of some hundred millions $.


IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you do not send this e-mail to at least 1246 people in the next 10
seconds, a bird will SH** on your head today at any time

Thanks and Regards,
A Frustrated Victim

So the next time you get another email asking to forward the email to 20 friends of yours. Just send them a link of this post or send them the letter yourself.

Experienced a similar forwarding email? Speak up in the comment and I will add it to the list. Any other funny stories? Write them down in the comments below.

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Top 5 Email Hoaxes of All Time

Get free laptop from Sony for forwarding this email to 20 people. Earn $250 by forwarding this email to 20 people because Microsoft will send you a check to your banking account. Hey get the blessing, get a promotion and win 20 billion in lottery by forwarding this email. Are you kidding me? Do you believe all this crap? Absolute nonsense. In fact, I see this as an extreme insult of human intelligence, both who started it and those who are propagating it… Do you really think people are so foolish? (Update: Apparently yes! Because every now and then I get forwarded email with exactly one of these 5 email hoaxes)

This post has top 5 email hoaxes of all times. Read them and let me know what I missed.

The Top 5 Hoaxes -

  1. Get the Blessing by Forwarding an Email – I am sure you have received at least three email in your life time about “send the email or bad things will happen to you.” Sorry folks! That just doesn’t digest. If God was distributing the blessing to those forwarding emails, I guess rich people would be sitting on email 24x7.  Sorry doesn’t work.
  2. Sick Kid Needs Your Help – This is one of those emails that claims there is a sick child and every time you forward the email some charity is going to donate 5 cents or 10 cents to the kid. Hello?? There needs to be a email tracking mechanism that can track ALL emails forwarded by everyone on the list. Unfortunately, that doesn’t exist.
  3. Bill Gates Giving Away Money – Amazingly foolish. Wonder how people can even believe something like this? Why would Bill Gates send random people money to those people who are forwarding emails? Sorry if you know even how to spell marketing, you would know that this is a pathetically poor business plan. Learn more about this email hoax.
  4. Free Laptop from Fujitsu – Similar to the above hoax, this one says you need to forward email and win a laptop from Fujitsu or some company. What the heck?
  5. Nigerian Uncle sending You money – Ever got an email from your Nigerian Uncle (or British, American, Bulgarian… any uncle for that matter) who left you a property of $ 200 million and you didn’t know about? They would ask you your bank account number for transferring $ 100 million and you can keep a commission of $20 million. Well, I know they teach us not to talk to strangers but they don’t teach us not to give your bank account to strangers. This hoax probably is based on the fact that since they don’t teach people to not to give bank account to strangers, people will.

The next time you get an email from, send them the letter from a frustrated victim of chain letters, and educate them by sending them information – either send them information available online or simply attach the link to this post.


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