Ever get all those really sad e-mails where some little girl is dying of cancer and you can save her life if you only forwarded it to all your friends, or how Yahoo is about to yank people off their mail service and you need to forward the message to all the people on your address book so management knows you are still an active yahoo user, or how Microsoft is giving away thousands of dollars and you really need to send the message fast so you can get some, or even how some lady had maggots growing in her breast and how everyone really needs to be careful and the list is endless really.
I really used to believe all them e-mails and forward them to everyone on my mailing list until a friend made me promise never to send any such emails till i was very sure of the source. So i started checking them out, everytime i got them.
It was pretty easy though, all i had to do was google a significant item in the story and the results 99% of the time came back as links to and urban legend with the origin and all that stuff. And from that day on, i got liberated from feeling guilty after not forwarding an e-mail that could probably save someones life! Hoax! Hoax! Hoax! That’s what they all are.
So people, you might want to google all such stories when you get them and you will find they are untrue. Lastly,
• You will not have 10 years of bad luck if you do not forward an email
• You will not find your true love just because you sent an e-mail
• Your wish would not come true just because you forwarded an e-mail
• You are not heartless just because you refused to forward an email
• Yahoo is not cramped for space and therefore needs to yank some people off
• Isn’t it weird that the same little girl has had cancer and will die in 6 months for almost 5 years now
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