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Email Chain Letters is believed to be a classic pyramid scheme, it is a kind of Email scams; some times you may receive an email that claims that all you need to do is send the email along plus money by mail to the names at the top of the list, and most times the names in the chain emails are manipulated to make sure only the people at the top of the list make any money. After forwarding the chain letter, you add your name to the bottom.

This type is considered certainly less potentially harmful than some other bogus information that circulates via email. It is the traditional email chain or pyramid scheme.

Chain letters as a term can be used in different ways now.

Chain letters may use a trick claiming that a video will play or an image will pop up after the message is forwarded. Some versions simply make the vague claim that “something” will happen after the email is sent on, just “Forward” it.

Also Chain letters with an attached photograph of a child mummy claims that those who send the message to twenty friends will receive good luck

Threatening chain letter, another nasty chain letter apparently targets children and adolescents, claims that a dead teenager will kill the recipient if he or she does not forward the message.

Chain email claims to be a survey to collect and compile first names, these emails are just another pointless, bandwidth wasting chain letter. It simply asks you to add you first name to the email before passing it on.

Chain letters may also qualify under other types of illegal activities, as in the case of a Ponzi scheme asking recipients to send money and forward the e-mail. They may be harmful, and contain trojans.

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