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Chain letter

A chain letter is a message that attempts to convince the recipient to make a number of copies and pass them on to a certain number of recipients. The "chain" is an exponentially growing pyramid (a tree graph) that cannot be sustained.

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Chain letter

Nodes140
Edges139
Triples190
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014286
Components1

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Chain letter

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related to Further reading · 58
Chain letter → Abnormal East, All That Glitters Is, Amway, Athena, Avoid Costly Mistakes, Boston, Breaking Free, Bulletin, Butterfield, Cult, Dan, Dean, Exploring, Free Enterprise, Gambling, Gary, Honest Man, How, How Ponzi Schemes, Iconography
related to In popular culture · 49
Chain letter → Both Doraemon, Both Fujiko, Chain, Chibi Maruko-chan, Coincidentally, Distraught, Doraemon, Doraemon's, Educational, Fujio's, Fukou, Fukō, Given, In Fujiko, In Fujiko Fujio A's, In Fujio Akatsuka's, In Jiro Tsunoda's, In Momoko Sakura's, It's, Koji Suzuki's
related to Reasons for popularity · 28
Chain letter → Asama-Sansō, Cultural, Ease, Exploiting, For, Fukou, Great Kanto Earthquake, In Japan, Japanese, Kai, Lucky Letter, New Age, Oomoto, Periods, Postal Friends Association, Psychological, Rice Riots, Sanrizuka Struggle, Similarly, Societal
related to Email · 17
Chain letter → Bill Gates, Claire Swire, Hawaiian Good Luck Totem, Hey, Infamously, John, Messages, MSN, MSN Hotmail, One, Save, Scouts, Some, Swire's, Tara, They, TV
related to External links · 12
Chain letter → An, Archived, Chain Mail Information Page, Daniel, Japan Data Communication Association, Japanese, Pay, Send-a-dime, Snopes, Thought ForwardWhat's, VanArsdale, Wayback MachineChain Letter Evolution
related to Types · 9
Chain letter → Another, Get-rich-quick, Hoaxes, It, Luck, Phishing, There, These, This
related to Web communities · 8
Chain letter → Carmen, Carmen Winstead, Chain, Facebook, For, Indiana, Myspace, YouTube
related to Relationship to urban legends · 5
Chain letter → Chain, Fukou, In Japan, Tegami, The
is a · 2
Chain letter → message that attempts to convince the recipient to make a number of copies and pass them on to a certain number of recipients, virus hoax and a form of cyberbullying.Email chain letters in JapanWith the rise of email and mobile phones
related to Print · 2
Chain letter → The, These

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letters chain letter people tegami misfortune often mail fukou unlucky like luck send within death japanese tokyo good email forwarding

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Chain letteris amessage that attempts to convince the recipient to make a number of copies and pass them on to a certain number of recipients0.90text
Chain letteris avirus hoax and a form of cyberbullying.Email chain letters in JapanWith the rise of email and mobile phones0.90text
Chain letterrelated to EmailSome0.60section
Chain letterrelated to EmailInfamously0.60section
Chain letterrelated to EmailClaire Swire0.60section
Chain letterrelated to EmailSwire's0.60section
Chain letterrelated to EmailMessages0.60section
Chain letterrelated to EmailBill Gates0.60section
Chain letterrelated to EmailThey0.60section
Chain letterrelated to EmailSave0.60section
Chain letterrelated to EmailScouts0.60section
Chain letterrelated to EmailTV0.60section

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