Snopes Review

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lymesux
Herndon, VA

Friends always forwarding chain emails? Read this!!

daily computer user, an Internet surfer, inundated with email

Pros

easy to use, quick to search, truth vs. fear factor, easy to share

Cons

needs more publicity!

DEC

2007

If you have friends or family like mine, when they get a 'chain' email they just automatically pass it on to their whole address book. So many of these emails sound very fishy to me. I remember one where certain Internet sites were donating money for a child with brain cancer - all you have to do is forward this email to all your friends, they would donate a certain amount of money per email forward.

How many of you ever received an email like that? Well I researched this on Snopes.com and found out it was 'false' - an urban legend by email standards. Boy would I have felt silly forwarding that email to my whole address book. I copied the information from Snopes.com and sent it to my friend who had forwarded the email.

Now, every email that sounds 'odd' but could be true, I will look up on Snopes.com and 9 chances out of 10, they are Urban Legends. But once in a while they are true, and I am so glad that I went to Snopes.com.

I share this information all of the time with people who send me these emails. Now I don't get half as many of these urban legends in my mailbox. I just wish snopes.com would somehow advertise so that more people would find these urban legends and my email system would probably run faster!!

Check out Snopes.com, I recommend it highly!!