The Pale Brown Ribbon Campaign
Are you tired of getting chain email and feeling that you have to
forward it?
Then don't. That's right, break the chain and join us fight the battle
against chain email.
I was a little boy when my mother got a chain letter and without even
opening it, she told me to tear it off and throw it away. So I did just
that. Well, not quite, my 6-year-old-kid curiosity forced me to open and
read the mail.
I was not old enough to write 7 mails, go to the post office and send
them. I waited for the 'Bad things that are going to happen' for a
few days, and nothing bad happened. After that, I completely
forgot about that mail.
That was my first encounter of chain mail, and I broke the chain. I have
broken every chain mail that I got ever since, and I am proud of it. I was
probably helped by my laziness to make copies of the mail and then send
them. But one sure thing, I have never experienced the 'Bad things that
are going to happen' spell that comes with it.
With the rise of the Internet, there is a new form of chain mail, chain
email. Instead of getting them inside an envelope, they creep into your
email account. The efficiency of the email system helps the growth of
chain emails. People don't have to make copies of the mail by hand
anymore. All it takes is to forward it to however many people it tells you
to forward.
Chain email is like harmless virus. Only it is not that harmless.
When it starts to ask you to send money, it becomes illegal. Usually, they
are disguised in the form of quick-money schemes. You send one dollar, and
you will get thousands of dollars. They don't work.
So what can I do, you ask. Everytime you get a chain email, you can break
the chain. It might be tough at first, especially if you are used to
forwarding them, but somebody has got to do it. By breaking the chain, you
are helping us, that's you, me and thousands of other people, to fight the
battle against chain email.
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E. Sambuaga