passing on an e-mail?

[mr. piper]

A friend of mine from germany who i trust implicitly has sent me two email's that i am supposed to pass on for a charity and an international appeal. one has an attachment but it appears at the bottom of the page not separately, i am very confused as how i should pass it on, is it with"FORWARD"?

[MargeB]

Do not pass it on. It is a scam.

[mr. piper]

Absolutely not in this instance, the charity was for Breast Cancer, and i can spot a scam when i see one. besides i did ask how to pass it on not whether it is a scam, i still need to know how to do it even if it was dodgy. Unless you would prefer me to ask how when i have a seemingly legitimate message to do it with?

[mystress]

Dear mr.piper,

Whether this is a scam or not is not really the point.What these "emails/forwards"do is to copy your address book and send this same email out to all of these people.It's a sort of nuisance email more than anything really bad.I just "bin" them regardless,it's not what it does to you,but what it does when forwarded!

[Tim Baxter]

A bit of clarification is possibly needed here.

It is possible that your friend's emails are generated by an email virus which has 'looked' at a friend of his address book and sent him an email. He then received the scam/virus email which looked at his address book and sent you two emails as well as to every other name in his address book.

You are about to perpetuate this if you forward it.  Good anti-virus software should prevent it happening.

[dafyd]

To actually answer your question, Mr. Piper, who do indeed forward an email by clicking "forward" (cunning, no?!) - and then complete the email as you would a new one.

That said - do pay attention to what the chaps above me have said. But if you KNOW that your friend sent it to you deliberately (it might be worth emailing him to check) - forward it using the forward button.

[MargeB]

How do you 'reply' then to a message?