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Still, after 12 long years it is nice to know that some people still care enough to write to me there. Or is it???? My mother was quite concerned when an official looking envelope bearing my name was delivered to my (very) previous address. Worried that it was some old debt or an old friend trying to get in touch she jumped straight in her car and hand delivered the envelope to me.

Now to my more trained junk mail eyes, it looked like snail mail spam! The standard white envelope, name printed on a sticker and the tell tale second class stamp were all tell tale signs and the clincher was no return address.

As I was about to throw the piece of junk mail in the bin I thought I'd take a look to see who would be using 12 year old mailing information - And no surprises for guessing who it was - Our old friend David Rhodes, or actually N White from Bristol.

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of a David Rhodes mailing - it's basically a chain letter, only this time it's asking for a tenner!

The principle is basically - photocopy this letter removing the top name from the list of 6 (suckers!) after sending them a crisp tenner and add your name to the bottom. Photocopy at least 200 times, buy a junk mail list, post and wait for the cash to come rolling in.....

These letters have been doing the rounds for years and it just amazes me to see that some people are still taken in by it. The letter promises that you will receive over £40,000 in cash GUARANTEED within 60 days if you follow the instructions, which means that 4,000 people must send you a tenner - with six people on the list, which means that 24,000 people must get involved just so that these six people can make their promised cash and if these 24,000 people are also GUARANTEED to make £40,000 cash - that's 96 million people who need to send a tenner.

Our advice - I you get one of these then file it in the bin!

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