Email Hoaxes - How to Spot Them

Hey, if you send this hoax email to someone Microsoft will send you 800 dollars, sounds great! You have to admit that. However if we use the brains God has given us, we soon realize that it has to be a hoax but some people are still gullible to go ahead and forward it to everyone on their address books.

The 800 dollar email Microsoft message talks about how AOL, Netscape merged together, and Microsoft made an email tracking software program that made explorer the most popular browser on the internet. The email promised to send you 800 dollars for every person you sent this email too. I got this one several times and deleted it, because I have common sense. It was a hoax and a good one as well. A few copies I received had been forwarded many times and had hundreds of email addresses on them. I just shook my head and thought to my self about half of those poor souls most likely believed in the hoax.

Lets face is some of them are good, they have us feeling sorry for strangers we read about in the emails. Having sympathy for others is a good human virtue to have it makes us real people.

Everyone wants to help the little girl dying in the hospital with cancer that sits in front of her laptop and reads those emails. I am sure we got that one I first got it in 1997 and here it is now 2007 and according to the email, she is still dying while surfing the internet. Common sense tells us that no cancer patient who is dying is going to still be dying ten years later.

There was a giant hoax going thru the internet about chicken wings having steroids in them and they caused ovarian cysts. Can you imagine how many people believed them? Did it hurt the chicken wing industry at all? I imagine it did, but I will still eat mine with mild sauce and lots of blue cheese. Thank you very much.

Did you receive the email about child protective services closing their doors because they ran out of money? While some of us may want them to close their doors forever, they will not close because there are always children who need to be removed from unsuitable homes. The government runs that department so it will stay in business because of your tax dollars.

We have all gotten the foreign lotteries email telling us we have won, and we just need to send processing fees to an address overseas. Yeah I won 20 million lira once a while ago, but I never got it. Too bad, because I was going to send that money to help the poor people in some distant land who needed to buy some food. Perhaps I could buy some computers for the children over in the jungles. I do not know but I would find a good use for it.

There is going to be taxes on emails starting next month so send this message to everyone you know so they can be prepared. Save your money folks, email is not going to be taxed any more then your regular mail will ever be. It is a hoax, and nothing but a hoax.

There was the ones about the hotel keys being stolen and in the middle of the night, a male stranger would appear into your hotel room and rape you according to an email. So many people were afraid to stay in hotel rooms, because if that email This was a potentially harmful virus.

No child is going to be healed simply because you forward an email, but prayer can help real children who are sick but they need a doctor if it is that serious. You are not going to get a gift certificate for forwarding email from any big company. No big company is going to give you money for sending an email, unless you work for them. If you email this page to your friends, I will get more page views and I will enjoy the proceeds I get from it.

I would suggest next time you get something that sounds too good to be true, or it is to help someone or send money somewhere that you check one of the sites in the link section. Heck if you want to spend some time on an interesting site go ahead and read thru some of the hoaxes on the site and you will see some of the hoaxes out there. The hoax busters' site is loaded with so many hoaxes it is unreal. That sites main purpose is informing the public about hoaxes.