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Flush the chain at your own peril

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RECEIVED a chain letter and reached down to file it in the usual place - a circular, free-standing, plastic-lined filing cabinet where we file half-eaten meals, dog-ends and shares in Shenzhen warehouse firms.

But then something caught our eye.

This chain letter looked exactly like the ''all things are possible'' chain letter that turns up in Hong Kong offices every few days.

You know the one. It starts: ''This letter has been sent to you for good luck'' and gives examples of the good luck which befell those who sent copies onwards.

But the new one now going around Hong Kong is obviously a revised version: This letter has travelled around the world 70 times. Make 20 copies and send it on within four days.

Haywood Daddit, an unemployed chicken choker, received the letter and forgot that it had to leave his hands within 96 hours. His wife then went bowling with his best friend and never returned.

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