What are some funny forward messages?

What's the whole deal with those forwarded messages that you are suppose to forward it to someone else?

• PLEASE, THIS IS IMPORTANT.... I have received a lot of messages, including from Yahoo, saying that I will be charged ("listen to this stupidity") $10 for each messages that I receive or send, or something like that, I didn't forward it. I didn't believe it by the way. Why would Yahoo do that. It's free. I know workers from Yahoo are reading this, please, do something about it.......And it's not just from Yahoo, there are a lot of messages, talking about wishes coming true, and if you don't forward it, you could possibly die. I think that's ilegal, what about you? There should be a purpose for that, like stealing your e-mail, your name.... We should do something about that. I have already started with this question. What do you think about it?

• Answer:

  Its all spam. Some of it is potentially bad--if the emails give you a link to click in order to pay your $10 it can be a link to a site there just to get your credit card number or it may download a keystroke monitor onto your computer. Don't ever click on links on spam. The other part of it is that this is the electronic version of chain letters--send this to 10 people and you'll come into money. They are probably illegal, but I don't know who to report it to. Just delete it. If you have a spam filter add them to your spam filter. Tell your friends not to forward spam to you.