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The Hunger Site and Second Harvest are both very real and active hunger-relief campaigns. With each click of a link on thehungersite.org, sponsors donate food to Mercy Corps and America's Second Harvest. However, questions abound about the chain letter above:
No reputable charitable organization uses chain letters to leverage donations. The medium is just too unreliable. They certainly wouldn't make such donations contingent on you submitting other people's e-mail addresses - to do so violates privacy and is considered very bad business. For years, BreakTheChain.org has warned that e-petitions and other chain letters could be used by unscrupulous folks to "farm" e-mail addresses that can later be used to send unsolicited e-mail or sold to spammers for their mailings. This one appears to be most blatant case of this practice I have seen to date. Break this chain! Category: Armchair Activism
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