Chain mails and the reality

If you are a net surfer chain mails should be nothing new in your mailbox.

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. A chain letter can be considered a type of meme.Common methods used in chain letters include emotionally manipulative stories, get-rich-quick pyramid schemes, and the exploitation of superstition to threaten the recipient with bad luck or even physical violence or death if he or she "breaks the chain" and refuses to adhere to the conditions set out in the letter.

Chain letters are capable of evolution, generally improving their ability to convince their hosts to replicate them over time.This sometimes occurs through deliberate modification of the chain letter by a recipient, or sometimes through purely accidental imperfect copying.

Although no laws currently exist banning chain letters; they are viewed as a general nuisance as that frequently multiplying letters clog up the postal system and do not function as correspondence mail, but rather, a game. Some colleges and military bases have passed regulations stating that in the private mail of college students and military personnel, respectively, chain letters are not authorized and will be thrown out. However, it is often difficult to tell chain letters from genuine correspondence.

Most of the chain mails contains rumors that are circulating among the net users. And if you search a bit about the news item you will be able to find the actual story behind the mail. For an example go through the following set of pictures that were circulating in past two three years.

Most of the receivers of this mail accept this to be true , and don't try to search the reality behind these pictures.

But according to the Snopes.com this was actually a stunt performed by a group of street performers in an unknown location. So this can be considered as an event of street magics. The chain mail leave out the last picture given below because it shows the boy after the stunt event.

So next time when you receive a chain mail don't forget to look what is the real story behind the mail before forwarding it to your friends.

I've found some useful sites to check the reality behind most of the chain mails we receive daily.

those are

1. http://www.truthorfiction.com/
2. http://www.snopes.com

Finally I would like to add a funny chain mail I received recently,

victim of chain letters .... ! ?

I want to thank all my friends and other unknown people who have forwarded chain letters to me in 2003, 2004 & 2005, 2006 and 2007.


Because of your kindness:


I stopped drinking Coca-Cola after I found out that it's good only 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 also stopped answering the phone for fear that they may ask me to dial a stupid number and then I get a phone bill from hell with calls to Uganda , Singapore and Tokyo.

I also stopped drinking water outside for fear that I will get sick from the rat shit 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.

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...)

My free Nokia phone never arrived and neither did the free passes for a paid vacation to Disneyland.

Made some Hundred wishes before forwarding those Dalai Lama, Ganesh Vandana, Tirupathi Balaji pics etc.. Now most of those "Wishes" are already married (to someone else)!

You can add your own notes based on your similar experience and send them to your friends. If Yahoo deletes my account, it doesn't matter BUT PLEASE DON'T SEND me "Yahoo is deleting accounts: Due to sudden rush..." Otherwise I'll delete my E-Mail account!

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you do not send this e-mail to at least 913760 people in the next 10 seconds, a bird will shit on your head today at 7:10 p.m.

Give me a break!! "The World Is Filled WIth Foolish Ppl And Some Think They Got Talent Too !!!" I also haven't got the million dollars that Bill Gates was going to give me for forwarding mails.

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References.

1. Chain letters- from Wikipiedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_e-mail)
2. Bread and media Circuses - Snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/crushboy.asp)