INTERNET HOAXES
If you have received a forwarded message warning you about something,
please check it out through one of the websites below, and click
"reply all" and copy and paste this message below into your email. Maybe we can slow down the email garbage.
Thank you for your cooperation. - Roland Rhoades
UPDATED April 2010
Dear Friends (especially the one who forwarded this to all and sundry),
If you receive an email message that uses any of these words or phrases;
Urgent!
Warning!
Forward to Everyone You Know!
Virus!
etc., investigate before forwarding it. 999 out of 1000 of such messages are hoaxes and urban legends. Many have been floating around
for years and have been refuted repeatedly by those whom they purportedly quote or refer to. Very, very, very rarely, a message of
this type is authentic. Continuing to send these out into cyberspace uses up a phenomenal amount of bandwidth, that could be more profitably
used for uplifting invitations to visit porn sites and the like.
Here are some websites where you can check out the veracity of panic messages before you forward them. Save this message so that you can
refer to it when you get another email of this type (and you will):
There's a ton of fraud out on the internet. Here are some sites to
use:
http://www.scambusters.org/
http://urbanlegends.about.com
http://www.snopes.com
http://vmyths.com
http://www.truthorfiction.com
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
http://www.datafellows.com/news/hoax/
http://www.philb.com/hoaxes.htm
http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/default.htm
Email petitions and chain letters fall into the same category. If it says
to send it to a certain address after 500 names, check out the website
after the @ sign to see if this company/agency has anything to do with what
you are signing. I know of one UN agency getting so many petitions, that
have a notice on their home page saying that they have nothing to do with
the peace petition circulating in their name. If you're going to sign
or
circulate a petition, do it to a real one.
For your own protection, folks, you really ought to
check out the stories behind any petitions, chain letters, special appeals
or special offers.
And thank you for being a good Internet citizen!
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