I had one that sent me every chain letter/mugged in the parking lot hoax that came along. Finally one day I replied in the following manner.

Dear ____,
I'm typing this in the local morgue while waiting for the ME to start my autopsy and sending it as a warning to you to stay away from _________Mall. I was there this morning and while getting out of my car had my Achilles tendon cut by someone hiding under my car. Then another man shoved some perfume under my nose and it was ETHER! When I finally came to I'd been mugged, molested, folded, stapled, mutilated and killed. It seems that everywhere I go this type of thing happens. I received a killer chain letter and when I sent it to ten of my closest friends and they sent it to theirs we each received 472 serial killers. In an effort to prove or disprove all the warning emails I've gotten I've spent the last several years travelling all over the country. There are only four malls and three gas stations left that I haven't been killed at but as soon as I'm done here I'm on my way to check them out.

Please forward this to 900 friends in the next 10 seconds or the men that killed me will show up at your doorstep tomorrow.

Sincerely,
your mangled murdered friend,
Alfreda

She responded with: "Okay, message received." and never sent me anymore of them.

I love this, I'll use your response, I bet the perpetrator gets the hint LMBO :mrgreen:

You're welcome to use it anytime you wish. LOL

Get them all the time, esp. from one particular person who cannot take a hint.

I have a message that I send back........

To all my friends and family who have sent me best "wishes" chain letters, "angel blessings", and other promises of good lucK....

NONE OF THAT S*** WORKED!

Could you please just send cash, wine, chocolate, or airline tickets instead?

Thank you!

i have a few friends that do that..usually i send them the link to snopes/urban legends.
my Brother in law, sent me all sorts of political /and joke ones..
i finally sent him and email and told him "you assume i am a republican/democrat, and i am actually a republican/democrat, your emails are offensive to me.
and "$2000 is alot to spend on a cyber joke book.."

then i blocked him, and/or hit the spam button.

what really ticks me off, is,when they send a forward and everyone and his brother, has my email address, and i don't even know these people. then i get crap from them too!
you do know, that some email programs save all the address that are on them,don't you?

my daughter called this week and she has a virus and it is gonna cost her 90 bucks to get it fixed..she clicked on something in an email that she should not have.

So my advice is, if your gonna send or forward something you just have to share..please be kind and send it as a blind copy (Bcc) so no one gets thier email address...

just my 2cents..

I agree! If that is the only way we can have good luck, life is pretty sad. I delete them without reading them.

They believe what I don't, so I just ignore them

I think some of the forwards are kind of fun to read ---

UNTIL I get to the - "please return to me and send to x more people" - section.

If one MUST send something on, the BCC (blind carbon copy) option is good to use.

After selecting "forward" - one can delete all the other addresses before selecting "send" Makes the blah-blah look neater, too.

LOL, I am so bad on the computer, I really dont even know how to forward that stuff. I have a SIL who sends them all the time, the religious ones. I think it ticks her off that I never respond, I just dont believe in that stuff!

I never pass these on, they annoy me to no end, but I don't have the heart to tell DIL I think they're stupid.