Another strange thing by email. This one was received at Sarah’s address. Her secondary address actually, she doesn’t even use it for anything. Not that she uses her main address for anything other than having a Flickr account, playing Yahoo games, and such…

Hi – [email address]

Please be assured that you will not receive this email again, it is a one off mailing!

Recently I received a chain letter (A piece of mail that was forwarded to me) that contained your email along with several other peoples.

I thought that as your email address was contained in one of these chain letters (forwards) you might have others that you would be willing to send to me. I know that this might sound a bit bizarre but I can assure you that this is a serious request. I am involved in a research project that is based over the next year, we are analysing Internet mail and trying to come up with some fairly accurate results as far as trends and patterns are concerned, we also need some accurate data regarding the type of mail that circulates around the internet, we know that 69% of all mail is Spam but what we don’t know is what % 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).

I would be very grateful if you would be kind enough to forward absolutely anything and everything that remotely resembles chain mail, forwards of any type (even the rude ones). This project is based over the next year and I need at least 500,000 forwards for this project to be a success, so please keep them coming the more the better and don’t worry I have some pretty huge mail boxes to cope with this.

I would be most grateful if you would be kind enough to forward this email to all your friends & family as I need as many as I can get my hands on for the project to be successful
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 – (5X4WWP6ZIEE)

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.

I just deleted it, really. She doesn’t read her mail anyway unless I help her (when she actually gets any). It strikes me as very strange that she would have received this email at an address that receives absolutely no email and yet I’ve not gotten it at any of my accounts which, I’m sure, are listed on tons of forwards.

So, what do you guys think of this?

* The only thing I did to the above message was to edit out the hyphens in “email.” Because otherwise my site was doing this: e-mail. lol