Any time that you receive much-forwarded email telling you to do something that seems a little odd, or warning you of a problem, try to verify the information given before following the instructions or forwarding the email. It's especially tough to contain such items because well-meaning people like to tell everyone they know about potential dangers and about ways to do good. But it's really best to resist the temptation to tell anyone these things until you've checked up on the info yourself. Electronic petitions .
Information tends to get garbled as it's passed along, even if it was true originally.
This is particularly applicable to the last three types of commonly forwarded mail on the above list. Before you forward anything to a large number of people, stop and think . This page is not meant as an attack on anyone. Forwarding important email is something most of us do at one time or another. I'd just like to see people make sure of an item's accuracy before passing it on.