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Every time you turn around these days it seems like you are receiving an email letting you know about A Little Girl Dying who is receiving 3 cents per email from the American Cancer Society. Or your personal email from Bill Gates telling you how to collect a share of his fortune. Or about someone who fell asleep and woke up without their kidneys or brain or some other type of non-vital organ. And, there are certainly a plethora of viruses that claim to do everything from destroying your hard drive to claiming your first born child. While the vast majority of these "alerts" are bogus, how do you know when it's "the real thing"?
Below are links to lists of websites that can be useful in determining whether an email message that you have received is legitimate or not. Deleting hoax and chain letter emails rather than forwarding them helps keep servers running efficiently and inboxes clear of junk email. And it doesn't take any more time to click on one of these links to check on the validity of a claim than it does to address an email to everyone in your address book. So please make use of these links. Oh, and if you really feel you must forward something then feel free to forward this page's URL to all your e-buddys! :-)
Chain Letters
Internet Hoaxes
Virus Information
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