An example of a contemporary "luck generation" chain letter sent by e-mail. [Collected on the Internet, 2000] CASE 1: Kelly Sedey had one wish, for her boyfriend of three years, David Marsden, to ...

These three examples are only the most recent update to the chain letter formula, which has been around since at least 1888. Over the last two decades, they’ve been given new life and ubiquity ...

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Unlike the unfortunate Zorin Barrachilli, the chain letter lives on. If that 1974 sample from an online archive of chain letters sounds familiar, it’s probably thanks to generations of e-mail ...

If you’re like many people trying to navigate this bizarro-world of social distancing, you may have seen an old friend crop up in your inbox lately: The chain letter – complete with convoluted ...

If you feel a spiritual need to do something in this case, you could always pray yourself in more general terms – for example for all children who have been the victims of crazy accidents of this ...

A new example of holiday fraud is making the rounds: the "Secret Sister Gift Exchange." Like the old-fashioned chain letter, ...

“A chain letter or a multilevel marketing program is actionable under the Postal Lottery, False Representation, and/or Mail Fraud Statutes if it contains three elements: prize, consideration and ...

The chain letter is by its very nature a document of chance and superstition. It infers that if we fail to respond, cosmic forces will deprive either the senders or recipients of health, wealth, love.