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Fundraiser with forward emails - Real or Hoax?
Hi,
I receive many emails asking help to raise funds to help the need. They just ask me to forward the email to as many as contacts I can. They say that from every forward I do, they get some money (eg. 5 cents).
Is this for real? And why would someone give funds just because the guy in need can forward bunch of emails?
Thanks in advance.
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
FACT; 90% of all emails on the internet is spam. If you don't know the sender, you shouldn't even be opening it.
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If you have a friend who forwards every piece of junk they get, let them know you don't want it ot you will mark their email as spam.
If it looks too good to be true, it is fake. Don't give anyone your personal or banking info.
BTW; Nobody has died and their banker wants someone to split their $50 Million with.
Some good reading; http://chainletters.net/chainletters/
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Obviously fake. There's no way they can track e-mail forwards and if they could it would be illegal to do so.
