Chinese Chain Letter, Anthony De Croud and Pearlas Sandborn

by Robin Bloor on May 26, 2009

The persistence of chain letters fascinates me. We all get them, I guess, and I’m sure quite a few of us never pass them on, despite their promises of bad luck if you break the chain or impossibly good luck if you don’t. Nevertheless enough people do pass them on to keep them alive. I’ve blogged twice about the “Chinese Proverb” chain letter that has been circulating most recently as a powerpoint file:

I also blogged about Pearlas Sandborn:

  • Who is Pearlas Sandborn, For That Matter? which points to mentions of Pearlas in a quite different chain letter, which promises that Bill Gates will pay you for simply forwarding the chain letter in order to help him test Microsoft email software. You might conclude that this email will die now that Bill has retired, but I suspect it will live on.

Take a look at the traffic graphs for those blog postings.

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"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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