Friday, November 17, 2006

Sick up and fed of email hoaxes

The only thing worse than these dreaded email hoaxes circulating about the net...is getting these dreaded email hoaxes forwarded to me by well intentioned friends, family members, and colleagues.

Under "gullible" in the dictionary there must be listed 99.9% of the people on this planet using email.

I don't know how many times, with just a few clickety-clicks on my keyboard and a google search, I've been able to dislodge the chicken bone in the multitudes of email netlores I've been deluged with in the past year.

Please, please, please, pass these site url's onto everyone you know (this isn't an email hoax, so it's okay to forward it...really it is. You have my permission).

A few million less email hoaxes in our inboxes will help free up the email servers of the world and maybe make the net cloud operate a bit more efficiently.

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/threatexplorer/risks/hoaxes.jsp
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
http://urbanlegends.about.com
http://www.breakthechain.org/

And of course, the mothership site for email hoaxes...

http://www.snopes.com/

Salvation from terrorists buying stolen UPS uniforms, Pepsi cans celebrating Islamic extremists, and vomit and feces at the bottom of Chuck E. Cheese's ball pit is only a few mouse clicks away.

1 comment:

WarWagon said...

And let's not forget all the cutesy, feel good emails that get forwarded 200 billion times! ENOUGH already.