Warning, Forward to ALL Your Friends (Not Really!)

Have you ever received an email message about the following?

• The postcard/greeting card virus or
• Cell phone directory’s being made available to telemarketers or
• An email plea to help find Ashley Flores a missing child or
• A warning about bacteria on lemon wedges in restaurant water or
• The 809 Area Code Scam or
• The “Slow Dance” poem message (forward and the American Cancer Society will receive a donation) or
• The Microsoft/Bill Gates/AOL Giveaway or
• The ATM reverse PIN (summons police).

Only one is true and another partially true. You can check out http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ or http://www.snopes.com/, but your options for verifying whether an email message is a hoax or a scam are not limited to those two sites. Take a look at http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBOtherHoaxPages.html which lists other Hoax/scam verifying sites...and have fun reading.

Remember, the most prolific SPAM generators are folks who forward untrue email messages warning their friends of impending dangers!