A typical chain letter consists of a message that attempts to induce the recipient to make a number of copies of the letter and then pass them on to one or more new recipients.

“Chain email” means any email that suggests to the recipient that he forward it to “all your friends and relatives” or anything similar, thus forming a chain between the author of the email and each recipient.

How Should I Respond?

• Please do not forward chain email to anyone else.
• Reply to the sender (if you know them) without including the contents of the original e-mail and politely ask them not to send you any more. If you do not know the sender, ignore the e-mail and report it as spam.

Why Do Chain Emails Happen?

• Keep in mind that people who initiate such emails, whether willfully perpetrating a scam or simply overreacting to some bit of news, usually don’t have the credibility to convince lots of people to take some action. So, they try hard to gain credibility for their message by encouraging everyone they can to “forward” it for them.

However, please remember this.

• No chain e-mails are legitimate, credible companies do not conduct their marketing in such a haphazard fashion. Chain e-mails cannot bring you fortune or cause bad luck, they will not make you rich and you will never get that luxury holiday. They are lies, at best mischievous at worst (like virus hoaxes) designed to cause worry and disruption.

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