How do you know if an e-mail message is a hoax?

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Indentifying an E-Mail Scam or Hoax

Here's some of what Ken Hollis and the alt.spam FAQ have regarding hoaxes:

There are many hoaxes circulating around the internet. See Urban Folklore FAQ at: http://www.urbanlegends.com/classic/craig.shergold/craig_nyt.html http://www.urbanlegends.com/classic/blue.star.tattoos/blue_star_lsd_faq.html

A complete Urban Legends listings (it is big): http://www.urbanlegends.com/afu.faq/index.html

Snopes offers a way to see if a photo is a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/photos/

http://www.hoaxkill.com - Look on the site and see if an e-mail is a hoax and if you can't find it forward your e-mails to hoaxcheck@hoaxkill.com and they will look at it for you. If it is a hoax send it to hoaxkill@hoaxkill.com and they will notify everyone in the e-mail that the message is a hoax

If you ever get an e-mail that tells you to forward it to other people, it is *almost certainly* a hoax. Specifically if it tells you about a "new virus" or free money. Before you send it along *please* look it up by going to http://www.google.com and typing words from the e-mail into the search line.

PLEASE read about the Gullibility Virus. This is a very funny editorial to be passed along to your friends who send you all these kinds of hoaxes : http://www.virtualsalt.com/warning.htm

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