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soolin

I love snopes and even though I pass the site details onto 'friends' time and time again I still get these blasted emails from them. When I ask, did you actually check snopes, they always insist that they didn't bother because this time it was a policeman friend or Local government mate who passed it on and they must know it is real.

It was a policeman neighbour that gave the email to my MIL, naive as anything that guy.

sweetstudent

I love all these virus emails, i can rest knowing that OSX is immune!!!! lol

trisontana

I find the problem with Snopes is that it's not very good regarding warnings that were true a few years ago but are no longer relevant.

A classic example was the email warning about an actual company called PDS who used to post a card through your door saying there was a parcel waiting for you at their depot. You then had to ring a premium-rate number. This would cost £9 to find out what this parcel was.

This scam was closed down in 2005, but warnings about this company still crop up in chain-emails (and some newspapers) every December. If you go to Snopes about this story it's still flagged as "true", because the scam did exist at one time. Luckily Hoax Slayer does say that the scam is no longer in operation.

CHR15

Do people STILL fall for this tripe??

It just goes to show there ARE people only just being introduced to computing.

Someone needs to warn the OP about that Nigerian bloke who wants to give him some wonga

AND, the Hot Russian babe doesn't really want to marry him.

MediSin

Simple rule - if the email isn't a proper personal mail from someone you know, or information you have requested, then it's spam. Delete it.