Anti-forwardism September 12, 2006
Posted by Atlantean in Just like that.trackback
Take a look at one of the forwards I received on YIM:
IIT Bombay student Anupam Biswas 5th Year Mechanical Engg is suffering from Colukabki (caused due to excessive nabad and depression) a disease very rarely found (3 in a billion). His condition is very pathetic and the treatment is very expensive, obviously his parents are not able to afford his treatment. Yahoo has agreed to pay 1 paisa after each time this message is forward. So pls pass on this message to help.
Now, I get really irritated when this sort of a message comes. I knew this was one of those but I wanted to check out how Yahoo! Inc. can “pay 1 paisa after each time this message if forward.” I typed “Yahoo! has agreed to pay 1 paisa” in the Google Search bar. Found a blog and found this on it:
An IIT Delhi student Anupam Joshi 4th Year Engineering Physics is suffering from Colukabki (caused due to excessive smoking and depression) a disease very rarely found (3 in a billion). His condition is very pathetic and the treatment is very expensive, obviously his parents are not able to afford his treatment. Yahoo has agreed to pay 1 paisa after each time this message is forward. So pls pass on this message to help.
IIT Delhi. IIT Mumbai.
Mechanical Engineering. Engineering Physics (I wonder if there actually is an Engineering Physics course at IIT Mumbai.)
Both suffering from Colukabki.
What is Colukabki by the way?
I searched again and what did I find?
Colukabki is not a disease.
Colukakbi, actually, is nothing. There’s no word called Colukakbi in English.
Of course, there are the more irritating ones, two of which are “If you dont forward this, you dont have a heart” and the AIDS injection wala.
Email spam, mobile spam. Now messenger spam? Yes, it seems. A very reasonable name.
How about an Anti-forwards Campaign? Dont just ignore such forwards. Type a reply:
“Look, I have something called a brain which actually thinks. I can donate a piece of it if you want. Stop sending me such forwards.”
This, of course, shouldnt apply to all those hilarious and rather useful forwards. 
Update:
I shall put all ‘those’ forwards I get here from now on. I’d like to name it Stupidogram, to measure peoples’ stupidity.
Stupidogram:
Observation 1:
Yahoo President Neeraj Sheth……This is Yahoo President Neeraj Sheth Jay Russell, I am sorry to announce that Yahoo has reached its maximum number of accounts two million. If you would like to keep your account for free send this to everyone on your list.This way we can know which accounts are being used and which accounts we can delete.Send this within 8 days and your account will remain free.Once again I am sincerely sorry that I have to do this.Please start sending.Jay Russell,Yahoo Management Renee:WHOEVER DOESN`T SEND THIS MESSAGE YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DEACTIVATED AND IT WILL COST $10.00 A MONTH TO USE IT! TO SEND TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST,RIGHT CLICK ON YOUR GROUP AND SAY SEND
Observation 2:
(I’m copy pasting this email forward. I deleted the spaces in between the lines to make it more compact. These days, the email forwardists are even devising Personality Tests!)
PERSONALITY TEST
The Dalai Lama said read it to see if it works for you. Very interesting. Just 4 questions and the answers will surprise you. Do not cheat by looking at the answers. The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is opened. This is fun to do, but you have to follow the instructions very closely.
Do not cheat. MAKE A WISH BEFORE BEGINNING THE TEST!!
A Warning! Answer the questions as you go along. There are only four questions and if you see them all before finishing, you will not have honest results. Go down slowly and do each exercise as you scroll down. Don’t look ahead. Get pencil and paper to write your answers as you go along. You will need it at the end. This is an honest questionnaire which will tell you a lot about your true self. Give an answer for each item.
Put the following 5 animals in the order of your preference: Cow Tiger Sheep Horse Pig
Write one word that describes each one of the following: Dog Cat Rat Coffee Sea.
Think of someone (who also knows you and is important to you) that you can relate them to the following colours (do not repeat your answer twice. Name just one person for each colour.): Yellow Orange Red White Green
Finally, write down your favourite number and your favourite day of the week.
Finished? Please be sure that your answers are what you REALLY WANT.
Look at the interpretations below: (but first before continuing, repeat your wish.)
This will define your priorities in your life. Cow Signifies CAREER Tiger Signifies PRIDE Sheep Signifies LOVE Horse Signifies FAMILY Pig Signifies MONEY
Your description of dog implies your own personality.
Your description of cat implies the personality of your partner.
Your description of rat implies the personality of your enemies.
Your description of coffee is how you interpret sex.
Your description of the sea implies your own life.
Yellow: Someone you will never forget
Orange: Someone you consider your true friend
Red: Someone that you really love
White: Your twin soul
Green: Someone that you will remember for the rest of your life
You have to send this message to as many persons as your favourite number and your wish will come true on the day that you put. (emphasis is mine.)
This is what the Dalai Lama has said about the Millennium-just take a few seconds to read it and think. Do not put away this message, the mantra will come out from your hands in the next 96 hours. You will have a very pleasant surprise. This is true, even if you are not superstitious. Please do this. It is fascinating.
SEND THIS E-MAIL MANTRA TO AT LEAST FIVE PERSONS AND YOUR LIFE WILL IMPROVE
0-4 persons: Your life will improve slightly
5-9 persons: Your life will improve to your liking
9-14 persons: You will have at least 5 surprises in the next three weeks
15 or more persons: Your life will improve drastically and all that you have always dreamed will take shape.
(Sigh! They cant atleast desist from associating this nonsense with the great Dalai Lama. The man doesnt deserve such treatment. Grow up forwardists!)
Observation 3:
please forward this msg,very urgent. One of my friend’s mother condition is very serious. She needs 4-bottles of B -ve . Contact: gayatri 9841983811. Pls don’t avoid this… even if u can’t help atleast pass this msg to all
Observation 4:
FOR EVERY GIRL 1 important news … PLEASE REMOVE UR PHOTO FROM ORKUT N FROM ALBUMS… THERE HAS BEEN 2-3 CASES OF PORNOGRAPHY….PEOPLE R COPYING PHOTOS N ATTACHING THEM TO PORN PHOTOS SO PLEASE TAKE CARE OF THIS… ALSO REMOVE UR ADDRESSES N PHONE NO. FROM PROFILES… SPREAD IT..TO UR FRIENDS …PLLLLLLLLZZZZZZZZZ guys send it to ur gal friends… this happened to a friend of mine.. let it not happen to anyone.. spread it to all your friends….( this was a fwd to me….so didnt happen to ne friend of mine)
Observation 5:
Because u opened dis u will get kissed on friday, the biggest day of ur life don’t break da chain, ur crush will ask u out tomorow that will be da best day of ur life howeva if u don’t send dis 2 13 ppl by twelve tonight u will have bad luck for da rest of ur life… just copy & paste this coz ppl wont read it if it iz Forwarded!!!!! If you don’t send this to everyone on ur list, u will lose the person you love.sorry if i dont get this back i guess your not my friend. if u have a lot of love 4 someone… copy and send this 2 ur whole buddy list..in 5 min. ur true love will call u…..Wish u a very happy World bestfriends Day.Send 2 all ur gud frends, even me if u like me
So true man!
I once got a fwded message about some crappy rose day thingy…this is how I replied:
(excuse the profanity…it was the 12th msg of the day)
“Today is world’s send me a msg n i will fwd it like a ch**iya day. Send this to all ch***yas n have a nice day”
spam spam spam.. i recieve about 20 spam mails every day!! now spam in messenger, spam in orkut, spam in blogs, spam in forums ??? sick of the spam.
i have actually yelled at people who send these kinda forwards to me and the worst reply i ever got was.. “it only takes 2 seconds to del the message”.
Im planning to start a track back campaign to track the person who has actually started this chain. but, i always loose the connection somewhere!!
I too am a victim of many such fwd mails — stuff like Ganesha Mantra, Microsoft and AOL pays u xx.xx $ for every x fwd, 5 yr old child being paid medical expenses for every nth fwd, lady seeking info on her hubby’s rare disease dated years long back, ‘promotional campaign’ as free Nokia mobile, Laptops, IPods and whatnot for fwding their mails and the most irritating kind being ‘if u dont fwd within __ days/hrs; u will have bad luck for __ years(curse is at times elevated to even immediate death!)
LOL @ Advitiya
honestly, who gives a shit bout some forwarded message that probably originated in africa where some random chimps have evolved to use their opposable thumbs for something other than swinging on branches. menu-options-delete-yes.
Yea. They are sickening. And more worse if you believe in all that – delete this within 6 minutes. Send it to 6 people, you’ll have your wish come true in 6 hours, if you send this to 12 people, someone ( stupid) will call you…whatever.
N.B.R.
I am glad you chose to highlight this point. That you took up the time to dig into this. Not many people do so. In fact, almost no one does.
This was a great post. Thank you for this.
Ads, Rakesh, Kasi, Aftab, Anonymous, Equilibrium, Truman,
LOL! Thanks guys.
Sharad,
Expand!
hey, nowaday’s u even receive mails from industry hr’s saying that they have shortlisted your resume and would like to conduct an interview
That was very enlightening
Anonymous,
Oh yeah.. that is true.. but you get those only if you have left your resume on some job recruitment website… anyway, these are kinda useful :p
Shreetama,
I’m glad it was
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hey man …. nice blog … i also was searching for reality and stepped across ur blog …. i received the same mail on orkut and in my mail orkut is paing 1 paisa …. hehehe …. neways let the people who believe in this hoax propagate the mail .. i don care …….
Hi,
Yes man.. This is becoming a great spamming technique.. I get some 100 such mails everyday. Its really bad that people forward it to a list like “Orkut Friend’s list”, YM list
It is time that people stopped acting like moons and send all spam (& spammers) where they belong – the trash can.
Errata: Replace “moons” by “morons”
Good One !!!
Atleast an eye-opener for those who blindly fwd mails and messages !!!
PoliteIndian, Srinath, Ankur, Max, Richa,
Thanks
hello… was writin a similar blog entry… your entry came up… loved it!
cheers…
I meant it came up during a search about similar forwards!
hey this is true …we get dozen’s of forwards each day which is really foooo can’t describe and more irritating….thanx all
Seriously these types of fwds just r just hoax and @#$%^&*, they don’t have any base and any type of truthness. Ppl who fwd such type of mails really don’t have brain [:P]
Seriously, all these mails are just Junk, and people, who used to send such mails are sick… they dont want to do anything, and want everything in life… thats y they rely on the quotes like…
“Forward it to some X people within some N minute, and you will get whtever u want in life…” —-> Are yaar, agar aisa hota to mein saari duniya ki Khoobsurat ladkiyon ke saath one-by-one date pe nahi jaata…. bas ek forward maarta, ek date fix ho jaati…
yeah. we do hate those mails literally threatening u to forward them. but accept it guys, we have believed that rubbish many times! and the repitition of that was wat made us realise!!! anywayz, lets send the link of this page to those who sent us all those forwards!!
good post, my thoughts exactly!!!!!i stopped forwarding them some time back
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Thanks all! Spread this wild fire – forward this post. Hehe!
geez, i hate fwds too. all kinds of them, the one that comes in mail, orkut spam , shoutbox spam, comment spam ah! ruins my life.
http://www.anirudhsanjeev.org/things-that-annoy-me-543212-mass-email-forwards/
hey guys after reading this blog i fwd this link to all my frnz. forwarding is good but if not d stuff goes headless like u get this or u loose this. thanx for the efforts. go with it
hey guys after reading this blog i fwd this link to all my frnz. forwarding is good but if not d stuff goes headless like u get this or u loose this. go ahead with ur ahead its good
nice article …………..
hands of , I believe this survey needs forwarding the most other than those crazy messages
This is the mail that i received couple of months ago. Please read this carefully. I dont know how people get fooled so easily. It says Thursday, September 22, 2006. But September 22nd 2006 was a friday. What a misfortune for those who sent me this message.
But they got a very good reply from me, and never send me such a mail again.
————————————————————
Dear Friends !
Petrol in Pakistan Rs17 per litr
Malaysia Rs 18 per litr
In India it’s 48 per litr
Why this difference in Asia itself ? World Market CRUDE Oil is not
the reason for this. It’s all Gain for private owners? As we are the
general public, or Common Man as R.K.Laxman wud hv said, we have to
raise our voice, let’s raise thru Emails.
Forward this to all Indians who care.
IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE DID NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF
PETROL FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD
CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES.
AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET LOSS
OVER 4.6 BILLION DOLLARS WHICH AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL
COMPANIES.
THEREFORE “THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22nd ” HAS BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED
“STICK IT UP THEIR BEHIND ” DAY AND THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION SHOULD
NOT BUY A SINGLE DROP OF PETROL THAT DAY.
THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN BE DONE IS IF YOU FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO AS
MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN AND AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD
OUT. WAITING ON THE GOVERNMENT TO STEP IN AND CONTROL THE PRICES IS
NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REDUCTION AND CONTROL
IN PRICES THAT THE ARAB NATIONS PROMISED TWO WEEKS AGO?
REMEMBER ONE THING, NOT ONLY IS THE PRICE OF PETROL GOING UP BUT
AT THE SAME TIME AIRLINES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES,
TRUCKING COMPANIES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES WHICH AFFECTS
PRICES ON EVERYTHING THAT IS SHIPPED. THINGS LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING,
BUILDING SUPPLIES MEDICAL SUPPLIES ETC. WHO PAYS IN THE END? WE
DO!
WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.IF THEY DON’T GET THE MESSAGE AFTER ONE
DAY, WE WILL DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN. SO DO YOUR PART AND SPREAD THE
WORD. FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. MARK YOUR
CALENDARS AND MAKE SEPTEMBER 22nd A DAY THAT THE CITIZENS SAY
“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”
We forward so many junk email to many of our friends, now let us do
it for some useful cause to cut down the price of the petrol .. …
REMEMBER : SEPTEMBER 22nd 2006
Gud Job Ragini… keep it up and let sick ppl know abt the rubbish forwards…
Very Nice, I’m gonna send the link to this forum to everyone who send such forwarded mails.
i swear! those fwds really get on ur nerves ..ufff!!! before i used to open dem and read the first few lines and delete..now! i don’t even bother opening dem.
Here is one more sample of crazy mails I always get.
It states some thing like this…
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BOND FINANCE LIMITED,LONDON.
I am Mr Richard Martins, the Auditor General, Bond Finance Limited UK. In
the course of my auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an
account which was opened in 1990 belonging to a dead foreigner Late Mr. K.
P. Ong who died in 1999. Every effort made to track any member of his
family or next of kin has since failed; hence I got in contact with you to
stand as his next of kin.
He died leaving no heir or a will.My intention is to transfer this sum of
$15.5M in the aforementioned account to a safe account overseas. I am
therefore proposing that you quietly partner with me and provide an
account or set up a new one that will serve the purpose of receiving this
fund. For your assistance in this venture, I am ready to part with a good
percentage of the entire funds.
After going through the deceased person’s records and files, I discovered
that:
(1) No one has operated this account since 1999
(2) He died without an heir; hence the money has been floating.
(3) No other person knows about this account and there was no known
beneficiary.
If I do not remit this money urgently, it would be forfeited and
subsequently converted to company’s funds which will benefit only the
directors of my firm. This money can be approved to you legally as with
all the necessary documentary approvals in your name. However, you would
be required to show some proof of claim which I will provide you with and
also guide you on how to make your applications.
Do give me a reply so that I can send you detailed information on the
modalities of my proposition. I completely trust you to keep this
proposition absolutely confidential.
Please forward to me on acceptance of this proposal,your private telephone
and fax number including the country code and area codes, your complete
names,and private email address for effective communication.
I can be reached through my personal email address below:
richmartins@iol.pt
Best Regards,
Richard Martins
Donno how much of it is true.
————————————————————Hello
I am Edward HuntI am 14 years old I live in Manchester(UK) before my father died, now I live with my mother in Ireland. my father is from Manchester UK and my mother is from Ireland. My late father Mr. Hunt Martin has a big Real Estate company in Manchester before he died in a car accident last year July 25th 2005. he left 10 Million (Ten Million Pounds) in his account before he died. The 10Million millions is in (Union National Bank UK)
I have been trying to collect the money from (Union National Bank UK) but the account operator told me to go and look for some one honest and old enough to help me collect the 10 Million (Ten Million Pounds) I could have told my mother to assist me in collecting the 10Million but my mother and father where divorced before my father died and my father told me not to have anything to do with my mother, I don’t even want her to know about this because what my father told me before he died was correct, now that I stay with my mother in Ireland she doesn’t take care of me all she dose is to take hard drugs and to bring men to the house and she always hit me.
I don’t want to have anything to do with her, I just want some one old enough and honest to help me collect the 10Million from the bank as I am too young to take control of 10Million. Please I need your help, if you can assist me to collect the 10Million from the bank I will give you 30% and take 70%. I have all documents in my name you can confirm from the bank. I am indeed the Next of Kin to my late father Mr. Edward Hunt Martin.
The account operator (Union National Bank UK) told me to look for some body that is honest and old enough so that he can send the 10Million to the persons account as soon as possible.
If you can help me I will contact the account operator (Union National Bank UK) and tell him that I have found an honest person who is willing to help me collect the 10Million, so when you contact him he will know I sent you.
I will give you is contact so you can contact him to enable him send the 10Million to your provided account immediately Please help me. I will be waiting for your urgent reply so I can give you the contact of the bank and send you the last statement of account of my late father and I will also send you my picture and my birth certificate. Please help me reply back on this email: edwardh252@yahoo.es so I can send you all information’s you need.
Best Regards
Edward Hunt
hi, thanks yarr..it was really helpful…as soon as i got that offline msg from one of my contact i google it and got this page….
one request…..plz try to find spam msgs and other kind of attacks also…
like thr is a virus attack which automatically sends offline msg to our contacts….but thr is hardly any info on net about that virus…
virus is attacked so many pc till nw…
if u gather some info it will be better…
if u dnt understand wat i m sayin…just mail me
This is not gona help as u r forwarding more fwd msg nothing else……..there should be some awwarness and some kind of restiction by the mail providing fcomapnys only then it can be sttoped
This is very true.
I dont know which type of psychology, such people bears.
they might do it for fun purpose but really stupidious.
hey Anti Forwadism is so awesome!! I am toally in. Even I got that mail about Colukabki!! What the F? I googled it and got this page. I think some people just don’t have a lot to do!!!!
i am with it, Anti forwardism!!!
Wat abt Bill Gates sharing his billions and Nokia giving away free handsets??
i am with it, anti-forward ism. btw, there is actually an engineering physics dept. at iit bombay !
this is just the height of superstion,we talk of advancements today but this is the proof!
I am all for it ANTIFORWARDISM …..
… this thing is so irritating
yea i am all for it ANTIFORWARDISM …..
this crap is waist of time and irritating
nice blog
really inresting piece… of shitty things
Ahem..Googled for COLUKABKI and ended up here
I compiled one on orkut hoaxes. You should check that out…I will link this post to mine..
http://lifein360.blogspot.com/2007/09/orkut-hoaxes.html
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Worse still , these spammers try to emotionally blackmail you in sending the message. I got a Ganesha mantra forward that explicitly mentioned that I would be a great sinner if I did not believe in the power of e-ganesha , and will be cursed with bad luck for seven years if I did not forward it.
EVEN I’M WITH U GUYS IN AGAINST “FORWARISM”
U really got it, dude. Just like you got this message (Colukabki) on Yahoo messenger, I got it in Orkut (just repair the messsage a little, don’t you think?). One in Ten people investigates messages like these, and I landed straight on your page. As a good measure, I checked out Mech. Dept of IIT Bombay, and there is not Anupam Biswas studying there at present. Now, either I made a mistake here, or guys affected with ‘forwardism’ didn’t get it right and invented Anupam Biswas straight out of fiction. Needless to say, I branded myself the biggest of your fans!
Though it is waste of time and incredibly boring, have a look at what I received:
IIT Bombay student Anupam Biswas of Mechanical Engg is suffering from Colukabki (caused due to excessive nabad and depression) a disease very rarely found (3 in a billion). His condition is very pathetic and the treatment is very expensive, obviously his parents are not able to afford his treatment. Orkut has agreed to pay 1 paisa after each time this message is forward. So please pass to all ur friends. please i request you to pass it to as many people as u can and lets try to save someone’s life. I request please do not ignore this. It will take < 1 min from ur life to help saving someone’s life. I DONT KNOW ITS REAL OR FAKE BUT ITS WORTH TRYING AT LEAST NO ONE WILL BLAME YOU .SO LETS HAVE A HELPING HAND
fuk this forwardism shit
each time i receive a forward,i reply to the person who send it telling that it’s not true or real and to stop sending this.but they still dont seem to realise this and keep sending me forwards again and again.. …dumbheads… they think the’ll get paid or a person who never even exist gets paid for each forward or they will have good fortune.
one day i received a forward in orkut telling that “a person named rohan wad will send a freind request,dont accept it ,its a bloody damn virus.send this to all your freinds so that they wont accept it too.”
i personally think someone with a grudge to a person called rohan wad wants nobody to add him as a friend.people are so dumb they forward these message to everyone they know without knowing the truth.
i’m in the anti-forwadism community too.
hey people,ive got an idea.Lets stop telling people to stop forwardism,instead lets take advantage of it.
lets create a message,send it to 3 of our dumbest forwarding friends and lets watch them send it to a hundred people and laugh at their dumbest brains.
we can also use this for our own good.like we have to sell a car and nobody wants to buy it for a price.then we create a message like this and tell people to forward it.”a person named XXXXXX has a rere disease.gis parents cant afford for treatment.only resource is their old car which nobody is willing to buy.please help them buy asking anyone to buy their car or send this message to all your freinds so that they can help him.their tel no is XXXXXXXX”
stop wasting time dont read this long message also dont forward this one too..
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Thanks. Count me in.
Thanks man!!
I too recieved the message on the “COLUKABKI” thing and just to check out what this so called illness is I Googled it. And guess what ; it doesnt exist ! It is just so disgusting ! Making up an illness and making people forward messages for what? I don`t find it funny and I believe many more might have the same views as me on the matter .Thankfully I didn`t forward it and hope that the jokers who start such @#$^ come to their senses and start working on something more meaningful.
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