do people who started it get profit out of it?
2006-10-13 15:21:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
I know seriously. I just checked my message and I had 3!
After one hour!!!
I dont know what is up with them, but I think somebody copies and pastes it from the internet and the interenet gets profit, or something.
People think they will get popular for it!
2006-10-13 15:32:13 · answer #1 · answered by Dominique-Duh! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can get profit, if the chain letter tells people to send money to some address. Usually such scams say "send money to the first address on the list, then add your address at the end of the list." It is basically a pyramid scheme.
Besides, chain letters are at best some more spam, and who needs that??
2006-10-13 22:25:03 · answer #2 · answered by DadOnline 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are often created to gather E-mail addresses of people. everyone who FORWARDS the E-mail has there address along with the addresses of all the people placed in the header of the E-mail. If you have ever looked (Or even understand the headers) of an E-mail you will see that the forward E-mail often goes back to the originator of the E-mail. This is how they collect the E-mail address of people and sell the lists to companys for Advertising reasons. Now keep in mind that this is not true for all of them. But a fair share of them are like this. Always delete spam and never reply or forward.
2006-10-13 22:29:53 · answer #3 · answered by gearnofear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My personal feeling is that they can become a pest, and be annoying, from what i gather so far, I have not noticed anyone making money from it, as this could in most countries be loosely considered "pyramid selling" which i gather is mostly illegal now.
I believe in breaking those chains, there is enough junk mail around without adding more.
2006-10-13 22:26:35 · answer #4 · answered by OzHawk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are usually the only ones that do because they don't send money to anyone. Don't be scammed by chain letters.
Good Luck
2006-10-13 22:25:16 · answer #5 · answered by phy333 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is more or so that they got it goin around the U.S., which kinda is cool when you think about it that people over the U.S. are getting an e-mail that started wit you
2006-10-13 22:23:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Transmitting virii
2006-10-13 23:10:40 · answer #7 · answered by Elbert 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE CHAIN LETTERS ON THE E-MAIL CIRCUIT ARE STARTED BY SPAMERS SO THEY CAN GET YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS AND THEN SAPM YOU WITH ALL THAT JUNK MAIL YOU GET.
2006-10-13 22:31:05 · answer #8 · answered by roy40372 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so but anything is possible in the U.S. i suppose.
2006-10-13 22:22:57 · answer #9 · answered by ***ME***:) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋