chain letters???

mom2twinz

mom2twinz

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In just one week, I have received 3 chain letters from people from other states who only indentify themselves with goofy sounding names. I received one today from California ( I live in GA ) from some gentleman who indentifies himself as JimBob.( Give me a break!!).
Is anyone else receiving such nonsense??? Would love to know. Never have received a chain letter in my life until these 3.
 
Oh no! That sounds very strange indeed! I haven't received any chain letters but about 3 months back, I got a propositional letter from some guy a couple cities away that wanted me to jump on some business adventure wagon. It gave his full name, address, etc. only I couldn't find that address in that city when I did some digging. The address didn't exist in the city he gave. I found him on linkedin.com or some guy very similar to him with the same name and city.

I dunno. Maybe he lived with his parents. Maybe he had just recently moved, but his address info he had printed on the return envelope was bogus so I figured he was too. Not to mention his so-called business adventure selling kites.
 
It's not actually a far stretch to think it may have been from a sweep. Blog contests where we enter our email addresses could be hacked, sold, etc. Sweeps sites that claim to NOT sell info but do anyways.

I am a picky sweeper. I don't enter a contest/giveaway that looks shady in the least. I just recently switched to a new email addy a couple weeks ago. I've had this as my non-sweeping, non-freebie email account for over a year now. It's already being hit kinda hard with spam(not newsletters). It makes one wonder...
 
I've been doing the blog contests for awhile now. No problems from them either, and I've won four of them so far. :headbang:
 
Well damn! Your a lucky witch!! :cheers:

It may not be blogs per se or it could be. But you can't negate the fact that it could be from sweeping. I've definately felt it has been from sweeping since the email change, but I'm not necessarily complaining. Occupational hazard I guess :laughing:
 
Personally, I don't believe it's from sweeping. There are so many things it could be from that I wouldn't single out sweepstakes as the culprit; especially, since I never had any problems in the ten years I've been doing this.

Other considerations could be a hijack cookie on the person's computer, mailing lists hacked (from anywhere), ISP's themselves having their customer's email accounts hacked (this has happened to us once), and so on. There were three occasions that I remember that some websites inadvertently made their mailing list page public when it should have been private.
 
I've never received a chain letter. I've been sweeping for about 2 1/2 years, maybe alittle more.
I just get the constant email notifications of "You've won the Euro power ball!"
I win a million dollars everyday! That comes from some sweeps I've entered. That I'm certain of, because we all get them. and they've slowed down I notice. I haven't gotten one in awhile, then yesterday, I received one from the Microsoft /European/Powerball contest.

But, chain letters I don't receive. {Not yet, anyway}
 
thumbelina said:
I just get the constant email notifications of "You've won the Euro power ball!"
I win a million dollars everyday! That comes from some sweeps I've entered. That I'm certain of, because we all get them. and they've slowed down I notice. I haven't gotten one in awhile, then yesterday, I received one from the Microsoft /European/Powerball contest.
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The lottery and someone dying and leaving you money emails come from scammers who pay for lists of email addresses or know how to get them on their own. It's not quite that hard when you know what you're doing. Even people who don't enter sweepstakes get them--practically everyone gets them.
 
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