chain mail and children

__TJ___2

who would send chain mail to a child? my kid has just had a threat of death if he doesnt forward an email. luckily instead of forwarding this to his friends ( also all children) he told me about it and i told him to delete it. will be having a word with the boy who sent it to him in the play ground today.
im :mad: furious!

davetrousers

The child who forwarded it onto your child probably did it before their parents saw it..........and so it goes on!

__TJ___2

indeed, as i said ill be having a word with him and his folkes this morning.

djb215

I used to get tons of chain mail from my friends when I was 13/14 (about 6 years ago), so I sent them an email asking them to STOP!

If this chain mail is real then I have already died some 27 times, got about 76 instances of very bad luck, missed out on $13tn from various wealthy families in the African nations, and my Hotmail account has been deleted 40 times because "MSN is going down!" :rotfl:

If worst comes to worst OP place a block on the recurring email addresses where spam comes to, and maybe inform the parents of the other child about the mail their child may be receiving.

rosie-lee

An old work colleague constantly sends me loads of these - it drives me mad that people can be soo very stupid as to pepetuate these ridiculour things.

Would the dalai lama sp? really wish misfortune on you if you don't bombard another 10 people with the carp.

parkysaves

My son has had two of these emails forwarded from the same girl. The last one even changed names to show children in the class. I spoke to the mum once but this time took the email to school and they are including it in their internet safety talk this week. They were very helpful and shocked. I would have just told my son to ignore and delete but the content was very harsh and intimate so I felt /i had to do something more positive.
One thing we didn't have to deal with as children.

geri1965_2

rosie-lee wrote: »

Would the dalai lama sp? really wish misfortune on you if you don't bombard another 10 people with the carp.

Is the Dalai Lama in charge of luck then?

rosie-lee

geri1965 wrote: »

Is the Dalai Lama in charge of luck then?

No idea but apparently he had started the last one I received :rolleyes:

KimYeovil

Oh. It's not a LRPer with a quandary. Never mind.

Wicked_witch

Lol kim, I was going to say that i would happily send chain mail to a child, along with a sword and one of those 'horses' you put your own legs through.

Seriously op, i can understand your upset but do remember that the boy who sent it on may also have been upset by it and that's why he did. Don't be too harsh!

DCodd

Would also make sure it came from the child in question as from my experience, kids know each others log ons and passwords to msn etc so it may have come from someone else!!