Now I think we've hit rock bottom. This spam claims it's "not a chain letter", but that's exactly what it is. When you ask someone to "pass it on", it's a friggin' chain letter. It's also SPAM. And I don't buy the story about the little girl dying of cancer...why in the hell would some little girl with six months to live want me to spam a bunch of strangers on her behalf? It's not going to cure her sickness, that's for sure. And that stuff about the American Cancer Society donating money for each person spammed has got to be total bull. How can they keep track of a thing like that? There's no way. And finally, we're told at the beginning that this girl has no hope and will die in six months. Then we're told to spam everyone with this chain letter in hopes that the ACS will donate money for her "treatment and recovery plan." Recovery plan? Isn't this ficticious little girl going to die in six months? The whole thing reeks of a practical joke and it ain't very funny.

Another interesting note is that this particular copy came from juno.com, and if you've read my spam filters page, you know that I've never gotten any legitimate mail from juno.com. Hmmm....

Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 19:36:40 -0700
From: Jeanette-Roy Valdez <mint-rubble@juno.com>
To: [a big huge list of people I'm deleting]
Subject: Fwd: FW: PLEASE READ AND PASS ON]

Dear All,

I just received this mail from a friend of mine in my College. Please respond to it. It will just mean employing a little bit of time and won't cost you a penny. All it needs is the heart for you to send this mail. PLEASE pass this mail on to everybody you know. It is the request of a little girl who will soon leave this world as she has been a victim of the terrible disease called CANCER. Thank you for your effort, this isn't a chain letter, but a choice for all of us to save a little girl that's dying of a serious and fatal form of cancer. Please send this to everyone you know...or don't know. This little girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a chain letter telling everyone to live their life to fullest, since she never will. She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own. By you sending this to as many people as possible, you can give her and her family a little hope, because with every name that this is sent to, The American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan. One guy sent this to 500 people!!!! So,I know that we can send it to at least 5 or 6. Come on you guys.... and if you're too selfish to take 10-15 minutes scrolling this and forwarding it to EVERYONE, then you are one sick person. Just think it could be you one day. It's not even your money ,just your time!!! PLEASE PASS ON

Dr. Dennis Shields
Professor
Department of Developmental and
Molecular Biology
Albert Einstein College of
Medicine of Yeshiva University
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, New York 10461
Phone xxx-xxx-xxxx
Fax xxx-xxx-xxxx