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| Check it out before forwarding Learn to verify e-mails |
| How many e-mails do you receive every week that warn about viruses or tell you about an Amber alert or insist that Bill Gates is going to give you millions of dollars if you just click on a particular website? Almost every one of those e-mails is a hoax, yet people forward them to EVERYONE in their address book without verifying them first. Even if the message insists that the sender checked Snopes.com to authenticate it, don't believe it. Check Snopes for yourself. These messages are called Urban Legends and are started by someone with too much time on their hands. Here's how to verify the authenticity of the message. Click here to go to Snopes.com, a website that will tell you whether a message is true or false. When the website opens you will see a Search box in the top right corner. Click in the search box and type a description of the questionable e-mail, such as UPS uniforms. About this time every year (holiday season) someone will recirculate the old hoax that terrorists have stolen UPS uniforms or have paid $32,000 to buy hundreds of them. My husband works for UPS and I'd like to know where you would go to buy those ugly brown things. They're only available to employees through the company. Anyway, once you have typed UPS uniforms (or any other topic) in the Search box, click Go. You will see a long list of possible answers to your search. Click on one of them and you will be told whether it's true or false. You will also be able to read a description of the phoney e-mail. Until you have verified it's authenticity, please DO NOT continue to forward these messages -- they are a waste of time and upset some people needlessly. Forward messages responsibly. We will all appreciate it. Thanks |
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