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Forward e-mail for donation.

Forward e-mail for donation. True or false?

I was checking my inbox just now. And, i deleted quite a number of 'forward e-mail' that required me to forward in order to collect money for some people.
I believe that i don't need to explain too much about this kind of e-mail as many of us have always received them. (If you forward this message, so-and-so will donate a penny each time it is forwarded...)

seeing those forwarded emails' history, i found that each of them had already being passed to many many people, not less than a hundred. This condition always happen since the time i have a mail box, but usually i just delete it instead of 'helping others by a click'.
i'm taking such action because i doubt the truth of these e-mail.
Finally, i take some time to check about it...

From some website, i get a conclusion that this kind of 'forward for donation' statement is NOT TRUE~. sending them out is just a waste of time and energy. No one will get benefit or help or donate any money from it. I cant tell whether the information i found is 100% correct. But if it is right, sending this kind of e-mail is just an action which cause pollution to earth, wasting electricity, occupying the memory in everyone's mail box and in the process of sending it, it actually releases carbon to the atmosphere.

So, hope u all checked this out from http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/cancer.asp and http://paidopps.blogspot.com/2009/11/forward-email-texts-to-raise-donation.html~
Make your own decision, and save our world by not sending those rubbish e-mail!

Quoting for those who's interested in:
[EMAIL. “Such-and-such foundation will donate $1 for each time you forward this email!” – FALSE. FALSE. FALSE.

Before you even consider raising money for charity by forwarding emails take this thought into consideration: How does the company which is responsible to “donate” know the number of times the email was forwarded? See, emails are considered private property. Nobody is allowed to enter your email unless you have given them permission. If a friend, coworker, even spouse enters your email without permission you can sue them for “invasion of privacy”.
Even when a court case arises against a suspected criminal, the company who hosts your email account (yahoo, gmail, Comcast, etc) will NEVER provide information unless a subpoena is sent requiring them to hand over the info. AND even in the event that they ARE sent a subpoena, they can ONLY give the info to a police officer/detective, lawyer or judge; again, this information falls under the privacy act and they are not allowed to give it out; NOT EVEN TO A “CHARITY”.
So with this in mind, please tell me HOW is any charity going to know what YOU do in your PRIVATE EMAIL? ]

Y. Dieh~

posted by 颖 @ 10:14 AM