Urban Legends and Hoaxes - Comments Page 2

I have a question. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think I read somewhere that these type of forwards that say "send this to at least five friends so you'll be blessed" blah, blah, blah, are used by spammers so they can acquire your email addresses and use them as in sell them to scam artists. Is this true? Is it even possible?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes, it's possible. I'm sure you've seen "forwards" with page after page of email addresses before you find the actual message. If you fail to trim all those "From" lines when forwarding a message, it's not only inconsiderate, you also reveal all of those addresses to everyone that it's forwarded to.

My friends and my husband often refer to me as the "fact check queen", because I never let any myth go undebunked! It's getting to the point where I can no longer resist throwing a bit of my own opinion in, along with the facts, when I return those notes to the sender. I even coined my own term for all those forwarded e-mails I get from friends and relatives - "friendspam".

EDITOR'S NOTE: Good one, thanks!

I am an administrator of another site for stopping hoaxes. Hoax-Slayer owned by Brett Christensen. Brett puts out a monthly news letter and we have forums set up for users to comment and ask questions. Keep up the fight!

http://CgXrtGpdtGbqABiiqrr11Z.pomality.com/t.asp?a=c&u=17717&e=9011949&b=com

This URL was provided as a return "address" for approvalto send survey materials. Subject line was "your check is waiting for you." Any comments?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes... I sure hope you deleted that message!