September 9th, 2008 | 
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I had an email forwarded by a friend today. It claimed to be sponsored by MADD (Mothers against drunk drivers). It urged readers to sign it and pass it on. Now, like so many similar emails, this was a hoax – see http://www.hoax-slayer.com/madd-petition.html. It seems that perfectly intelligent people, who wouldn’t pass on a hard copy chain letter, will quite innocently pass on an email one without a thought for its genuineness.
So what should one do in these circumstances? Well, what I do is send it back to the sender (and all the other people CC’s in the email) with a note NOT to send it on, and give a link to my source that explains about it being a hoax. Hopefully it will at least stem this branch of the chain.
With my friends I also have a word in their ear and hopefully do some education (once a teacher always a teacher) about hoax emails. All that is written is not true.
What do you do?
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