Chain email and Snopes.com

October 18, 2005

I’m not a fan of chain mail, snail (mail or email). Therefore, I am a big fan of Snopes.com. Early on there was no one good source for debunking chain emails. Now there is Snopes.com. It comes in handy when a friend or relative continues to forward the chain emails your way. Usually, for their first offense, I will reply back and tell them to visit Snopes to see for themselves that the email has been debunked. If they didn’t learn their lesson the first time (either to quit sending the chain emails or to remove me from their distribution list) then I will usually reply back to all of the original recipients and remind everyone to verify things before they blindly forward junk to their friends and relatives. This usually works pretty at reducing the chain mail coming my way and also educates a large group of people at one time.

Of course, I still get chain emails and I was beginning to wonder if the message was even getting through to anyone. Until today. Today I received my first chain email that began:

I checked this on snopes.com and it is a true scam.

And it even included a link to the article! Slowly but surely, it appears that the message is getting out about using snopes.com to verify any dubious emails. Yay!

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