JoanUK300

Received this today.....is it spam? Not seen this before....




Sent from Gemma Brown.

I recently received a chain letter (A piece of mail that had been forwarded to me) that had your e-mail address in it along with several other peoples.

I thought that as your mail address was on one of these chain letters (forwards) you may have others that you would be willing to send to me. I know that this might sound like a daft request but I can assure you that this is a serious request. I am involved in a university project that is based over a year and we are analysing Internet mail, we are trying to ascertain trends and patterns to come up with some fairly accurate statistics regarding the type of mail that circulates around the internet, we know that 70% of all mail is spam but what we don’t know is what percentage of that spam accounts for chain mail (forwards of any type, something that has been forwarded to you, a piece of mail that has formed part of a chain).

Please send absolutely anything and everything that remotely resembles chain mail, forwards of any type (even the rude ones). My project is based over a year and I need one million forwards for this project to be a success, so please keep them coming and don’t worry I have some pretty huge mail boxes.

I would be grateful if you would be kind enough to forward this piece of mail to all your friends as I need as much help as I can get.

Please send all chain mail (forwards) to the following address. gemma39@research-project.org

Everyone that helps will receive a copy of our results and findings in January of next year so please help if you can.

Thanks

Gemma

Reference No - (6X312AGGO83)

You will only receive this mail the once, it will not be sent to you again and your e-mail address will not be passed on, however to conform to the law we must give you the opportunity to have your e-mail removed from our list. Please reply with the word delete to have your address removed.






Thanks in advance for any info....Joan.

Reality

If in doubt - delete it.


anything asking to be forwarded to all your friends - definately delete it !

JackClark

I'd spam her, sounds like she loves the stuff. We have a similar thing at work, the person who collects the most spam gets an iPod.

Iwan

It's probably someone trying to stitch her up.

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

She can certainly have all the crap chain mail I get Why do people send them? I have a 'friend' in NZ that sends me loads of them and they're all rubbish/SIALs/pointless pieces of crap but I'm too polite to tell him that I hate them

SiDHEaD

I've stopped receiving chainmails since i started replying very nastily when i get them.

Reality

Gets my vote too.

Poor Gemma - she's obviously upset someone

2000TLondon

I'd guess "Gemma" is trying to collect addresses and is just getting you to confirm your email address is valid and in use, before they get sold on a list of working mail addresses and you get swamped with spam.

Brit_in_Japan

Sounds dubious. Who is funding the research? Who does she work for? If it was bona fide then that info would be in her email to you.

Delete.

scoobyverysoon

iTrader: (1)

i had the same e-mail from her

i just deleted it on to be on the safe side

not heard from her since then

regards

Jud

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

I got that exact same thing a few months ago and ignored it.