What is a chain letter?
A chain letter is a type of letter sent to many people. May contain a story of happiness, friendship or can lure a person to send money. The aim of the chain letter is to keep the string running by asking the recipient to copy the letter and send it to other people, usually a fixed number. Another goal of the chain letter may be to deliberately raise money from others fraudulent. Often there are sinister threats or curse to violate the continuity of the chain letter. For example: "If you don't send this chain letter to five other people, you'll be unlucky for a year."
Sometimes a chain letter is used specifically for illegal purposes. Attempts to get people to send the money to the first person at the top of the chain is an illegal pyramid system. The letter usually promises that the recipient will also get rich in this process. This is rarely the case and sending these types of chain letters is illegal in the USA. They are only fraud and one violates many laws by employing and involving mailto the process.
The most common type of chain letter today is a letter with an e -mail string. This may seem harmless, a quiz personality, a short illuminating story, or some other "innocent" message. The insidious aspect of the letter on the e -mail chain is that people are then bound at the end of the e -mail to give the e -mail to other people, often with promises of happiness or threats to break the string. Such chains can also contain attachments with worms or viruses, so it is best to ignore them and not open attachments.
Many e -mail providers strictly forbid chain letters and can ban users who send them. It is also considered an extremely bad internet label or "Netiquette" for passing chain letters to friends, familiar, family or business Associates. This is often a mistake of new Internet users who do not realize that chain letters are nvoDNES material for handover.
If one really enjoys the content of a chain letter, such as a quiz personality, joke or story, this aspect of the chain letter can be simply copied to friends to friends who believe it will also enjoy it. Do not forget to include links to the sender who needs to pass the material to other people. Keep in mind that not all materials will enjoy others, and any material, whether a chain letter or not, can simply push another person's mailbox and be unpleasant. Such material should never be sent to collaborators or people with whom you only have a chance to know.