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[This have been cross-posted to the main Scouting newsgroups.  I am
sorry if this has broken the rules but I hope you will understand
after reading the posting.]

ARE YOUR SCOUTS BEING CONNED??

Watch out, watch out, there's a chain-letter (still) about!!

Yes, the chain letter which was originally started in 1995 is still
out there and still trying to trick Scouts into sending off
badges/patches with the gleaming promise of receiving 343 badges in
return.

Please pass on this warning to your Scouts, leaders and the rest of
your Groups and Scouting contacts.  If they receive this chain letter
then they should do what I did and put it in the trash can... rubbish
bin... garbage... or better still, the waste paper recycling box.

For those of you who have not seen it yet it is an official-sounding
letter which says that "you have been chosen from many scouts and
participants on this great chain." and "I hope you will understand the
meaning and importance of this letter" and "you must respond within
five days or the chain will be broken".

This chain letter is the same as all other chain letters and pyramid
schemes.  It is a con and will trick your Scouts if they are not
warned first.  Many other posts in many other newsgroups will be able
to tell you the mathematics of it and how it is impossible to keep the
chain going even for just a few cycles (eg, three cycles of three
names would need 119,275,000 people to have taken part!).

It is not "offical" and has no connections at all with the 19th World
jamboree in Chile, 1999.  Nobody at all should worry about throwing it
away; indeed, they are doing their 7 friends a favour!

If your Scouts want badges from around the world then they can join
badgers' clubs and swap badges like for like, rather than the
un-Scoutlike "something for nothing".  If your Scouts want
international contacts and friends then there are also safe ways for
them to get these, safe in the knowledge that they are genuine.

Yours in Scouting

Graham

-- 
GRAHAM HOLLAND  <zaba@enterprise.net> Liverpool, England  
Baden-Powell Scouts  http://www.scoutnet.org.uk/bpscouts
"Zaba the Frog"     http://homepages.enterprise.net/zaba

**The opinions expressed are my own and do not represent
those of any group or organisation living or dead**