This is an urban legend

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What are your thoughts about forwarding/deleting good luck/bad luck emails (i.e. urban legend chain emails).  Example: I get an email from one of my friends.  Says to read the story then look at the photo.  The story goes on to say that the photo is of a young boy who asked his friend to take a picture of him at a certain spot, The young boy whose photo was being taken screamed and fainted and 2 days later died of a heart attack.  When the film was developed it showed this boy (actually looks like a teenager of Asian decent) and there stood a ghost next to him.  The email goes on about how some man received this email forwarded it to 13 friends and received all this good luck and stated another man just deleted it and his whole life was ruined. 

I'm thinking how gullible are these people.  Also I'm looking at the pic and the ghost is definitely from some horror movie I've seen before (maybe The Ring).  Can't quite place it but I know I've seen it somewhere before, which I think I've seen this boy before too in some other picture.  So I'm thinking how silly are these people (which by the way my freind sent to to exactly 13 people).  So I look up the place called Sundarbans and this is some urban legend.  If you put that name in Google up pops a picture of the boy and the so called ghost.

What I'm wondering is how many of you out there actually forward on emails like this believing that you just might have good luck (you know, things like win a bunch of money, get the raise you've been asking for or a promotion, they guy you've been wanting to date mysteriously calls you, or you are offered free chocolate the rest of your life)  HA HA, and how many of you just delete them.  I am one who deletes them, and it irritates me to no end that my friends go and include me in part of their montage of people they are emailing, so now all their friends have my email ID.  I guess I'm supposed to be obligated to send this email to 13 of my friends or else I become afflicted with some sort of bad luck.  What is even worse than this kind of email are the so called "religious - good luck emails (i.e. I'm sending you this Angel to watch over you, she was sent to me by my good friend and I usually don't forward these things but my friend wouldn't lie about where it came from and she received the promotion she had always been wanting, blah, blah, blah!

So just curious if any of you out there are as annoyed at these kind of emails than I am.  I know I could very nicely tell her to please not send me any more of these emails (which most of them I just delete anyway as soon as I see the word "Fw:" in the email address), but I don't want to hurt her feelings.  I don't believe in any of that stuff.  Maybe I will try searching for an article about urban legend emails and how if you just delete them nothing bad is going to happen.

On another note, I too have been caught up in the "send this email to all your friends and you will receive 12 days of good luck".  Can't tell you how many of those emails I have forwarded on in my time (mostly religious emails) and never once has any good luck been bestowed upon me because of it.  Who knows....maybe "The Big Man upstairs" (as my sister refers to him) gets annoyed that people are exploiting him like this.