Afterlife Telegrams.com sends messages to the dead using PayPal

by Patrick Altoft on September 25, 2007 / no responses

This website has been around for years it seems but I’d not heard of it until Radio 1 mentioned it today.

afterlifetelegrams.com, a website that looks to have a Google penalty for linking to spam sites, offers a telegram service to the dead.

For $5 your telegram is given to a terminally ill person and passed to your dead relative or friend once the messenger dies.

For a donation of $5.00 per word (5 word minimum), we can have telegrams delivered to people who have passed away. This is done with the help of terminally Ill volunteers who memorize the telegrams before passing away, and then deliver the telegrams after they have passed away. We call this an “afterlife telegram”. The $5.00 per word fee, depending on the wishes of the messenger, it is either given to a relative, donated to a charity or used to pay for medical bills. The company does not keep any of the fees from the sale of the telegrams.

Have you ever heard of a more unbelievable business model?

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Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3, a Leeds SEO & Digital Agency specialising in SEO, Web Design, Development & Social Media.