On September 16, on [log in to unmask], Mary Schweitzer said:
 >>Forgive me if this has been brought up before, but a subscriber has
 >>just sent a chain letter to several members (including me) offlist
 >>saying that if you keep sending the chain letter the American Cancer
 >>Society will donate 3 cents per person to some account for helping
 >>some poor fellow get chemo.  The trick is that you have to include
 >>a particular address every time you send it.
 >>
 >>My instincts say:  this is a hoax designed to "get" whoever it is
 >>on the receiving end of that same address over and over again.
 >>
 >>I vaguely recall hearing about something like this -- does anybody
 >>know?  I would like to stop the damage before it gets worse.

It's a hoax. This is a statement from the American Cancer Society that appears
on their web site <http://www.cancer.org/chain.html>

-Debbie

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