Tuesday, November 18, 2008

We are all tired of those ridiculous mails that come our way, touting some wonderful 

offer. Or with questionable bits of news that make us go "Huh."

Well here's a very simple way to find out if anything you recieve this way from friends, family etc,

is fact or fiction.

Just take a sentence from the mail.

Preferably one that stands out..

Take this one for example

 
 To all of my friends, I do not usually forward messages,
 But this is from my friend Pearlas Sandborn and she really is
 an attorney.
 
 If she says that this will work - It will work. After all, what have
 you got to lose?
 
 SORRY EVERYBODY.. JUST HAD TO TAKE THE CHANCE!!! I'm an
 attorney, And I know the law. This thing is for real. Rest assured
 AOL and Intel will follow through with their promises for
 fear of facing a multimillion-dollar class action suit similar to the
 onefiled by PepsiCo against General Electric not too long ago.

I took the highlighted bit, googled it & this page was on the top of the google search

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blintelaol.htm

You can then send the offending friend or family member the link

in a polite fashion.

This hopefully will wake them up to the simple netiquette, of not sending sh*t.

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