I have just received this from a friend in the IT business and feel obliged to pass it on for your consideration.
I’m sorry about this but I’m automatically suspicious about pyramid mails and I’m increasingly cautious about visiting sites I don’t know and clicking on things , so I did a bit of research (very easy via Google). I came across the following on the university of Columbia site.
“I signed up for the mailing list of the Romanian Club as well as the cultural institute for related information however I am constantly bombarded with unrelated material and spam forwards. (RO Club at CU please forward this to your members).
The thebreastcancersite.com site is NOT legitimate. It has very little pertinent information about the disease and it's merely a site that sells anything pink to make money. No one will donate a free mammogram. If you look closely buying a $20 bracelet will get you 1% donation to a mammogram.
The real site is http://www.breastcancer.org/
If you read about the owners of the fake site you'll see they own an company "CharityMall.com, LLC, a cause-related shopping portal" which obviously is not NON PROFIT.
If you want to really support finding a cure, donate to a hospital or a walk for breast cancer instead of flooding our inboxes with propaganda.”
I had a quick look at the site and what I saw tended to confirm the above. Moreover there is no means of knowing what happens when you click on their “free mammogram” button. I have been increasingly involved with computer security recently and would strongly advise everyone never to click on any button on a site they don’t have reason to trust. Even viewing a pdf online can load a Trojan on your computer!
I leave it to you to decide whether to notify the rest of your addressees as well as the well meaning person who sent the mail to you.
Once again, sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings.
RIP Iron Man
Rock On and keep the Faith
