Chain Mails – Please do not forward

I receive mails from friends and from Yahoo and Google groups forwarding chain emails containing:

God’s photo and says: “Only few people have actually seen this photograph before. Send this to at least 14 people within 5 minutes of receiving this mail to have a good time for the rest of your life...Believe me this is true. I tried it and got instant results.” --- even I get some sayings of God in IMs and says to forward it to another 10 people, else you will lose something.

Contains a girl photo and says: “Hi, my name is Amy Bruce. I am 7 years old, and I have severe lung cancer. I also have a large tumor in my brain, from repeated beatings. Doctors say I will die soon if this isn't fixed, and my family can't pay the bills. The Make A Wish Foundation has agreed to donate 7 cents for every time this message is sent on. For those of you who send this along, I thank you so much, but for those who don't send it, what goes around comes around. Have a Heart, please send this. Please, if you are a kind person, send this on. PLEASE HIT FORWARD BUTTON NOT REPLY BUTTON.”

Dear Friends, please do not forward this type of emails when you receive it. I see a lot of people including those who are from Infosys, Satyam, ADP (from their official email IDs), and people who have IT background are forwarding these emails and it surprises me. Did you ever think how Red Cross Society can track all the emails forwarded to everyone (in second situation). Tracking message only works when it is directly sent to a person and "Confirm the Receipt" options is selected...and...sender receives the confirmation of the receipt only if the recipient opts to send a confirmation while opening the message. Sender of the message cannot track the message forwarded from the recipient. (Some of emailing list companies provide the service where sender can track the mails and the software will let you know if the recipient opened it or not, but it does not track the forwarding of that message. This service is very costly.)

You guys/gals would have thought about it deeply. Internet is mixed up with good and bad things and if anything seems wrong or tricky, please search it thoroughly on Google. Just google the word "forward this email" and you will see that this type of emails are fraud in the first line itself.

Please read these articles to know how crazy people are playing with your emotions:
Thousand Dollar Bill: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.asp

Jessica Mydek - American Cancer Society: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/mydek.asp

American Cancer Society Hoax: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/cancer.asp

More on American Cancer Society Website: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/med/content/med_6_1_chain_e-mail.asp

Make A Wish Foundation: http://www.wish.org/about/chain_letters appearing with a fake website: http://www.makeawish.com