This should be required reading to get an e-mail account. Whoever decided to create this note and forward it on should receive some type of Humanitarian Award. It would be hopeful, yet doubtful, that this will clean up some of the junk that comes across the net.
Think about it ...
Big companies don't do business via chain letter. Bill Gates is not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation. There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. MTV will not give you backstage passes if you forward something to the most people. You can relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true".
Furthermore, just because someone said in the message, four generations back, that, "we checked it out and it's legit", does not actually make it true.
There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking
up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to their
cousin. If you are hell-bent on believing the kidney-theft ring stories, please see:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blkidney2.htm
And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued quests for actual
victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories. None have. That's
"none" as in "zero". Not even your friend's cousin.
Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if they did, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy at: http://www.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html Then, if you make the recipe, decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on (without the fake story please).
If the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium that went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY think this information would reach the public via an AOL chain-letter?
There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever, ever forward any email containing any virus warning -You know why? Because by the time you get the email and decide to pass it around, it's a good bet it's old news. Do you really think fast spreading security issues can be prevented by passing chain letter emails? Wrong! Instead of passing bogus warnings, actually go to a site that has actual real information about computer threats, such as: http://about-threats.trendmicro.com/
If your cc: list is regularly longer than the actual content of your message, everyone has already seen it. So stop wasting everyone's time passing it on again!
If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation
message from a friend, at least have the decency to trim the eight miles of headers
showing everyone else who's received it over the last 6 months.
It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of
all the " " or << that begin each line. Besides, if it has gone around that many
times we've probably already seen it anyway.
Craig Shergold (or Sherwood, or Sherman, etc.) in England is not dying of cancer or anything else at this time and would like everyone to stop sending him their business cards. He apparently is also no longer a "little boy" either.
The "Make a Wish" foundation is a real organization doing fine work, but they have had to establish a special toll free hot line in response to the large number of Internet hoaxes using their good name and reputation. It is distracting them from the important work they do.
If you are one of those insufferable idiots who forwards anything that promises "something bad will happen if you don't", too late...you're a lost cause already!
The CEO Proctor & Gamble has NEVER been a guest on any of the TV talk shows to proclaim P&G's allegiance to Satan... This is one of the longest running hoaxes anywhere...way before email was ever known by most people. P&G is NOT a satanic organization, although I'm sure Satan sure is smiling over all the prolific emails that says it is and probably says thanks to all the 'lost souls' who pass this garbage on!
If you think an email chain letter you got might be true, be a sport and go to one of the following two websites before you possibly make a fool out of yourself and verify the message is really legit or not.
http://www.truthorfiction.com or http://www.snopes.com
I am not even gonna touch the red spiders in the commode, the hypodermic needles in the theater seats, the car headlights/gang hoax, etc, etc, etc..... Bottom Line... composing e-mail or posting something on the Net is as easy as writing on the walls of a public restroom. Don't automatically believe it until it's proven false...ASSUME it's false, unless there is proof that it's true.
Got it? Good! Enjoy this wonderful 'tool' we have available to us and use it wisely, please think before clicking! Now, forward this message to ten friends and you will win the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes... I SWEAR!! ;-)