In my experience, those chain letter emails almost always came from my mum. ;-) At least until I asked her to stop forwarding them to me.
Seriously though, I haven't had one of those for what must be years. Are they still going strong and I just happen to be spared? Or is all of this stuff happening on Facebook, etc. these days? (By the time Facebook was open for me to register, its appeal was gone, so I never did. There's a story there but I'll leave that for another day.)
I experience the same thing as I haven't gotten many chain letters in a long time. This is due, I think, to two things:
1) I trained my family to either stop emailing this stuff or stop emailing me this stuff. I would do a quick search on the topic which usually ended up with sending everyone a quick sentence asking to read the snopes article I linked.
2) I am in a different social network that is insulated from the "main stream" social networks (I'm just saying different, no more no less). The people who are connected between networks are my filters. I assume that most of them are literate enough to stop forwarding this junk from one group to another. There was a technology magazine article I scanned a while back which explained visualizing social networks that better illustrated what I have feebly described.
Seriously though, I haven't had one of those for what must be years. Are they still going strong and I just happen to be spared? Or is all of this stuff happening on Facebook, etc. these days? (By the time Facebook was open for me to register, its appeal was gone, so I never did. There's a story there but I'll leave that for another day.)