This is a part of the chain letter having a similar pattern like most hoaxes of this type.

From the older printed letters to the newer email type, they all have three recognizable parts namely a Hook, Threat and a Request.

The Hook is basically to catch your interest and get you to read the rest of the letter. Hooks usually look like "Make Money Fast" or "Get Rich" or similar statements related to making money for little or no work.

But some have variants or "Virus Alert" or "Danger!" or "A Little Girl Is Dying", too. This vibes into our fear for the safety of our computers or into our sympathy for some poor unfortunate person.

Then comes the threat. After you're hooked, threats warn you about the terrible things that will happen if you don't maintain the chain.

However, others play on your greed for money or sympathy for the suffering to get you to pass the letter on. The threat or entice, often contains official or technical sounding language to get you to believe it's real.

Finally comes the Request. Some older chain letters ask you to mail a dollar to the top ten names on the letter and then pass it on. The newer ones simply admonish you to "Distribute this letter to as many people as possible." 

They never mention choking the internet or that the message is fake, they just want you to pass it on to others.

The salient feature of all such chain mails is that they don't have the name and contact information of the original sender so it's impossible to check on its authenticity. Whereas any legitimate warnings and solicitations will always have complete contact information from the person sending the message.

Even if the chain letters contain someone's contact information, you can hardly expect the person to exist or have nothing to do with the hoax message.

Try to use other means to find out if the message is real like trying the person's web page, the person's company web page or searching hoax sites first to see if the message has already been declared a hoax.

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