0 a letter sent to several people, who are each asked to send copies to several others, that sometimes threatens that bad things will happen if they do not send these copies --
Like all chain letters, because of the rules of geometric progression, you soon run out of people to recruit.
I have already mentioned the distress that can be caused by chain letters.
At the other end of the spectrum, of course, many chain letters are also trading schemes.
The process of sharing the starter makes it somewhat like a chain letter.
This article was also copied into a chain letter and released as truth onto the web.
This page was then rephotocopied ad infinitum, like a chain letter, and circulated around the country.
This school was the focus of a false email chain letter started around 2002.
During college, he had various business ventures, including a pub, disco lessons, and a chain letter.