Reply to: How best to deal with people who keep sending you stupid chain emails

[Sysman]

Or... tell them those types of email are full of nasty viruses, and the act of opening them is bad enough - but actually forwarding them results in all sorts of <made up> scary gubbins. Add "Trust me, I know about these things" and wink.

WRHS.

Better yet, don't make it up. Instead add in plenty of references to authoritative web sites debunking this type of message.

If they sent the email to a whole bunch of people, do hit Reply to All. This is particularly effective when they've sent this crap to all their friends or the entire company.

[2BIT]

"off of" ...... "off of" ........ ?????

Try "from"



Ah, ok !

so you are a grammar nazi - have a banana

[NotAllThere]

"Please stop sending me this stuff. I'm not interested".

works for me.

[teclo]

I usually reply with a link to snopes and an email that calls them a moron for forwarding emails like this on.

Works for me..

[VectraMan]

Back in university I was banned from using email for forwarding a chain email. Which I thought was a little harsh.

[Platypus]

I keep getting spam off of you'

"off of" ...... "off of" ........ ?????

Try "from"

everyone is stupid some of the time - trad.

Ah, ok !

[2BIT]

you could say 'I think your email account has been hacked as I keep getting spam off of you', when they say what spam explain and when they say they sent it themselves just laugh and say 'woops, oh ok' - if they have any humanity they will not send you anymore

it may be too subtle for some though

[Platypus]

I used to get loads of these of a former colleague and friend who I thought was otherwise quite normal. I tried just replying to her telling her they were nonsense (the hoax ones) but that didn't work, so when she sent one, I did a reply all (the list included members of her family and friends) listing when it was so daft with links to snopes etc

She never sent me any more, but she is still talking to me.

Good plan. I do this, not to stop people sending my bollix like this, but as a sort of public service telling people they don't need to worry about their PC exploding. Or if they read between the lines, not to be such daft twats. I've not noticed before, until PSB mentioned it, but I get fewer of these than I used to.

[jmo21]

I usually reply:

unsubscribe

[mudskipper]

Hi Mum,

Just thought I would give you a bell and tell you to shove your emails up your arse with a broken bottle.

How's Dad?

Dear Mum

Send this email to five people in three minutes and naff all will happen.

Guaranteed to work every time - I've tried it twice and both times, without fail, naff all happened.

Failure to comply with the above instructions will also result in naff all happening - you have been warned!

Try it - it really works - naff all will happen.

Lots of love,
doodab

(p.s. I hope the fairies bring you luck anyway...)




Substituting 'naff' with an obscenity of your choice.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Greetings, You have just received the "IRISH VIRUS". As we don't have any programming experience, this Virus works on the honour system. Please delete all the files on your hard drive manually and forward this Virus to everyone on your mailing list. Thank you for your cooperation.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I used to get loads of these of a former colleague and friend who I thought was otherwise quite normal. I tried just replying to her telling her they were nonsense (the hoax ones) but that didn't work, so when she sent one, I did a reply all (the list included members of her family and friends) listing when it was so daft with links to snopes etc

She never sent me any more, but she is still talking to me.

[thunderlizard]

Oh right. You never mentioned that you were from one of those disgustingly twee families, who never tell each other to **** off or ram things up their arse with a broken bottle.

[doodab]

Ring them up tomorrow at 10:35 AM and tell them to **** off.

Hi Mum,

Just thought I would give you a bell and tell you to shove your emails up your arse with a broken bottle.

How's Dad?

[thunderlizard]

Ring them up tomorrow at 10:35 AM and tell them to **** off.